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Excerpt from The Historic Peerage of England: Exhibiting, Under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Origin, Descent, and Present State of Every Title of Peerage Which Has Existed in This Country Since the Conquest; Being a New Edition of the "Synopsis of the Peerage of England"
The extensive utility of the Work itself, and the high literary reputation enjoyed by its late talented Author, have combined to render it, for many years, a book of universal reference, as well as of considerable authority.
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