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.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Precedence.

Nobility--Great Britain.

Nobility.

Titles of honor and nobility.

Great Britain--Registers.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([14],xii,[4],250,[2],251-261,252-280,[2],281-440,[4],70,[2]p.,plates ) port. ;

Other Title:

Laws of honour

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Gosling, at the Mitre and Crown against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, [1714]

Notes:

Sometimes attributed to Robert Gosling.

Text is continuous despite the pagination.

A letterpress leaf is inserted between pp. 250 and 251, and another between pp. 280 and 281.

The [4]pp. section after p. 440 is the appendix.

With an index.

In this issue pp. 252-252 and 256-257 are misnumbered 152-153 and 156-157.

Price from imprint: price Six Shillings.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T142006.

OCLC:

642427878