 | William John Thoms - Coronations - 1838 - 506 pages
...parliament. This subject is, however, one of very great uncertainty ; nor has its investigation by the Committee of the House of Lords, " on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm," produced any information of a conclusive nature. Baronies by Tenure have, however, long ceased to exist... | |
 | Thomas Christopher Banks - Baronetage - 1844 - 504 pages
...on this * Peerage barony, temp. Eliz., no allusion is made to this Mary, or her descendants ; and in the last report of the Committee of the House of Lords, on the dignity of a peer of the realm, it is also silent on the subject. DENNY.- (2 JAMES I.) SIR EDWARD DENNY, OR DENNEY, had summons to... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1854 - 846 pages
...empire, and that it had no reference to their temporal possessions. On this subject, the Report of 1821 of the Committee of the House of Lords on The Dignity of the Peerage, has the following observations : — " The right of a bishop to sit seems to be in the... | |
 | John Hodgson - Northumberland (England) - 1858 - 416 pages
...annexation of the wapentake of Sadberge, in which it is situated, to Durham. In one of the Reports of the Committee of the House of Lords on the dignity of the peerage, the case of the possessions of the Ogle family having been popularly termed the barony... | |
 | 1871 - 832 pages
...certainly the weight of authority at that time was all . in favour of the measure. In the Third Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity of a Peer (1822) it is stated : The committee find it has been asserted that the persons to whom dignities have... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1871 - 866 pages
...certainly the weight of authority at that time was all in favour of the measure. In the Third Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity of a Peer (1822) it is stated : The committee find it has been asserted that the persons to whom dignities have... | |
 | 1871 - 848 pages
...certainly the weight of authority at that time was all in favour ot' the measure. In the Third Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity of a Peer (1822) it is stated : The committee find it has been asserted that the persons to whom dignities have... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Nobility - 1890 - 432 pages
...Barony, temp. Elizabeth, no allusion is made to this Mary or her descendants ; and the lost report uf the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity...the said Mary, who left three daughters, and whose descendante still exist." Mr. Courthope adds that " Sir Adrian Poynings considered that his issue had,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1894 - 538 pages
...of Parliament. As both these statements are supported by the following passages in the third Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity of a Peer, I may, perhaps, read the passages to the Conmittee (they are to be found in Volume 1 page 15): "The... | |
 | Andrew Reid - Constitutional history - 1898 - 436 pages
...distinction between a Peer of the Realm and a Lord of Parliament is clearly stated in the third report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the dignity of the Peerage : " The union of England and Scotland first, and the union of Great Britain and Ireland... | |
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King, for certainly the weight of authority at that time was all . in favour of the measure. In the Third Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity of a Peer (1822) it is stated : The committee find it has been asserted that the persons... 