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The laws of honour : or, a compendious account of the ancient derivation of all titles, dignities, offices, &c. As well spiritual as temporal, civil or military. Shewing the Prerogative of the Crown, Privileges of Peerage, and of Parliament; the true Rank and Precedency of all dignify'd Persons; the most memorable Debates and Cases of Parliament upon Claim of Honours, Precedency, or otherwise. With a compleat and useful Table of the Nobility, setting forth their ancient and present Honours, Offices, Employments, Creations, Successions, Consecrations, &c. The whole illustrated with proper Sculptures, engrav'd on Copper Plates. To which is added, an exact list of officers civil and military, in Great Britain, as they properly and distinctly fall under the supream Officers of the Kingdom, or are any Way remarkable in the Dispatch of publick Business.
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- Book
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Precedence.
- Nobility--Great Britain.
- Nobility.
- Great Britain.
- Titles of honor and nobility.
- Great Britain--Registers.
- Genre:
- Registers (Lists)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages,xii pages, 4 unnumbered pages,250 pages, 2 unnumbered pages,151, that is, 251-261,252-280 pages, 2 unnumbered pages,281-440 pages, 4 unnumbered pages,70 pages, 2 unnumbered pages,plates : : : : portraits ; 8⁰
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for R. Gosling, at the Mitre and Crown against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, [1714]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Sometimes attributed to Robert Gosling.
- Text is continuous despite the pagination.
- A letterpress leaf is inserted between pp. 250 and 251 (here misnumbered 151), and another between pp. 280 and 281.
- The [4]pp. section after p. 440 is the appendix.
- With an index.
- In this issue pp. 251, 254-255 and 258 are misnumbered 151, 154-155 and 158.
- Price from imprint: price Six Shillings.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T142007.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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