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This book is dedicated to the Right Honourable Lady Frances Viscountess Scudamore, pp. 2: the Memoirs of the very ancient family occupy 64 pages. Copious extracts from this book are given in Gent.'s Mag. vol. 87, i. p. 99.

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T. WOTTON.-1727.

The English Baronets, being a Genealogical and Historical Account of their Families, containing 1. A Particular Account of the Institution of this Order by King James I. Manner of Creation, Privileges, Precedents, &c.; 2. Their Descents, Creations, Successions, Marriages and Issue, As also the Public Employments and Remarkable Actions both of them and their Ancestors, With the Blazonry of their Arms and Crests, their Mottos and Seats or Places of Residence; 3. Correct Lists, 1. Of the Present Baronets in the Order of Precedence, 2. Of those who are now Peers of Great Britain or Ireland, 3. Of those Foreigners who have had this Dignity conferred on them, 4. Of those whose Titles are now extinct; 4. Exact Tables of Precedence, particularly with respect to the Wives, Sons, and Daughters of Baronets and Knights; 5. A Short Account of the Institution of the Order of Baronets of Nova Scotia, and those of Ireland, With an Explanatory Index of the Terms in Heraldry referring to the Arms, Illustrated with their Coats of Arms curiously engraven on copper plates.

London: printed for Thomas Wotton, at the Three Daggers and Queen's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street. 1727. 12mo. 3 vols.

The first volume is inscribed to Holland Egerton, Esq. from whose collections the drawings for the plates of Arms were made; and prefixed is his Coat, with nine quarterings and two crests. The author was much assisted in this work by that endless pedigree-writer Arthur Collins, the Reverend William Holman of Halsted, and Mr. Gurdon. This volume contains 37 pages of engraved Arms, 6 coats on each page; Of the Order of Baronets, p. ì. to xxii. in which is included the Patent in Latin and English; An Account of the Baronets created by King James I. and Charles I. pp. 610; Index to the volume, p. 611 to 622.

The 2nd volume contains plate 38 to 77; Account of Baronets created by King Charles II. pp. 618; Index to the volume, p. 619 to 650.

The 3rd volume contains plate 78 to 106, and an Account of Baronets created by Kings James II. William III. Queen Anne, and King George I. concluding with Sir Charles Turnor, of Warham, Norfolk, created in 177, pp. 230; the remainder of the volume is filled with the Lists enumerated in the title, and an Index to the whole, concluding at p. 495.

This work was very considerably enlarged by the same author, and published in five volumes, 8vo. in 1741.

King George I. died at his brother the Duke of York's palace, at Osnaburg, June 11, 1727, in the 18th year of his reign and 68th of his age.

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REIGN OF KING GEORGE II.-1727-1760.

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1727.

A Complete Account of the Ceremonies observed in the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England, &c. &c.

London: printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford Arms, in Warwicklane. 1727. 4to. Pages 67.

This Account contains a large plate of the Procession at the Coronation of King William and Queen Mary, and another representing the Champion's Challenge in Westminster Hall.

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The Magnificent Form usually observed in the
Processions to the Coronations, &c. &c.

Collected from Sandford and other the best Authorities.

Printed and sold by Thomas Bowles, Printseller, in St. Paul's Churchyard; and John Bowles & Son, at y Black Horse, in Cornhill. No date.

A coarsely-engraved print, in size about thirty-six inches by eighteen.

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1727.

The Solemnities at the Coronation of King George II. Printed in the year 1727. 8vo.

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George the Second was proclaimed on 15th June, the day after express arrived with the account of the death of his father.

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1727.

The Form of the Proceeding to the Royal Coronation of their Majesties King George II. and Queen Caroline, from Westminster Hall to the Abbey-Church of St. Peter in Westminster, on Wednesday the 11th of this Instant, October 1727. Folio. Pages 8.

The description of the Coronation of the King and Queen was also printed in the German language at Hanover in 1728, 4to. with the Royal Arms in the title, and with a plate of the Procession.

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1728.

The Titles and Honours conferred by King George the First and Second to 1728.

London. Printed in the year 1728. 8vo.

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1728.

Registrum Regale: or the Genealogy of Sovereign Princes, containing a particular Ac

count of the Rise, Births, Marriages, and Issue, of the chief Princes in Europe: the Order of Succession in most Christian Countries: the Coats of Arms, Mottos, and Devices, of the several Royal Families, &c. &c. London. Printed for J. Isted, at the Golden Ball, near Chancerylane, Fleet-street; &c. 1728. 8vo. Pages 96.

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His Majesty King George II.'s Hereditary Right proved, in Answer to the Nonjuror. London. Printed in the year 1729. 8vo.

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1729.

The True and Ancient Hereditary Right considered, and explained.

London. Printed in the year 1729. 8vo.

DIII.

A. BOYER.-1729.

The Great Theater of Honour and Nobility ; Containing, I. The Science of Heraldry, with a Compleat Dictionary of all the Terms proper thereto. II. An Historical and Chronological Abridgment of the Settlements and Revolutions of the Monarchies and Sovereignties of Europe, from the Downfall of the Roman Empire, till towards the end of the Tenth Century. III. The present State of the Empire of Germany, with relation to the Emperor, King of the Romans, Electors, Princes

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