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TITLES DORMANT AND TITLES IN ABEYANCE Ancient Baronies in the English Peerage, created only by Writ of Summons, are heritable by female heirs. A single daughter, if heir, inherits on the death of her father ; if there be more than one daughter the Peerage " falls into abeyance" between all the daughters equally, and ordinarily so remains until the entire issue, male and female, is exhausted, of all the said daughters except of one. As soon as that happens, then the heir amongst the descendants of the remaining daughter at once inherits. The same result sometimes occurs through the marriage of two heirs. There are at present two small people who if they were to marry and have a son, would at their deaths jointly leave to that son some half-dozen Peerages which, though now in abeyance, would then at once emerge in the ordinary course. But it is not necessary to wait for natu"e to extinguish rival heirs. The king can at any moment he chooses determine the abeyance in favour of any one of the co-heirs merely by commanding the issue of a Writ of Summons addressed to that co-heir, who at once succeeds to the old Peerage with the original precedence. This action is taken from time to time, and consequently it becomes a matter of interest to note who are co-heirs to Peerages of this character. This course was followed in 1913 by calling out of abeyance of the ancient baronies of Furnivall, and Latymer. But in putting forward the information in the following section of the work, the reservation must be made that some of the pedigrees which have been used have not been thoroughly tested. The notes were com- piled from ordinary printed books, and in pedigrees extending over four and five centuries the oppor- tunity of error is great. Most would need to " stand fire " before the Committee for Privileges. Some of the Peerages also which have been included as in abeyance rest only upon my own view of various points of peerage law, and would involve judicial decisions thereupon before they could be brought into, enjoyment. To the abeyant Peerages various others have been added which are either dormant or under attain- der. Of such of these latter, however, as are inchicled herein it would probably' be found possible to obtain a reversal of the forfeitiu-es. But the enjoyment of any Peerage in this section involves the prior formal claim thereto, and the consequent official adjudication thereui^on : and that being so, one can leave this part of the book as no more than the attempt to collect and supply information, probably accvu-ate and doubtless of no little interest, rather than as a statement of proved and adjudi- icated fact which it is not, and which it would in the bulk of these cases be wholly impossible to put forward. The Editor would welcome any adcUtions or corrections to this part of the work. ABERBROTHWICK, Barony (Scot. 1608).— Heir : The Eari of Derby. ABERGAVENNY, Barony (writ 1660, abeyance 1833). — Heirs : The Earl of Normanton i, an either the heir i if any of the Hon. Juliana Wigley, of Dalby House, Liecester, who died 1807, or else ^ to the heir of Frances Dorothea Preston (m. 1789) and -J- each to heirs of the two daughters of Maria Juliana Barry (d. 1847), of Leigh's Brook, co. Meath. ABERGAVENNY, or Beauchamp de Abergavenny (writ 1392). — There can be very little doubt that this barony is now vested in Viscount Falmouth. ABERGAVENNY, or Neville de Bergavenny (writ 1605, dormant 1641). — Heirs : Ella J, Amy J, Ethel |, and May J Jones, daughters and co-heirs of Rev. John George Jones, B.A., Rector of Hurst- monceaux, de jure Lord Abergavenny. AIRTH, Earldom (Scot.). — Claimed by Robert Barclay-Allardice, who has lodged a petition there- fore ; vide IMenteith. ALDEBURGH, Barony (1371). — Heirs : the heir or co-heirs of Dame Elizabeth Stapleton J ; the heir or co-heirs of Sybil de Ryther A. ALTRIE, Barony (1587). — This barony, subject to the attainder of George Keith, Earl Marischall, 1715, would devolve upon the heir male of that nobleman. ANNANDALE, Marquessate (1701). — The heir male of George, 3rd Marquess, would be entitled. Several claims to the title have been made in the past. ARCEDEKNE, Barony (1321). — Heirs in 1400: Dame Alianor Lucy +; Dame Philippa Cour- tenay I ; Margaret Arundel ^. ARRAN, Earldom (1503). — The heir male of James, 4th Earl, would be entitled. ASTLEY. See Bonville. ASTON of Forfar, Barony (1627). — This barony would devolve upon the heir male of Jaraea, 6th Lord, who died 1751 ; such heir obviously exists. ATHOL, Earldom (creat. by writ 1321, abeyance 1369). — Heirs Alexander Henry Leith ^^ ; Francis Jeken Byde Russell ^^ ; Reghaald Gervase Alexander }; ; Cuthbert Matthias Kenworthy ^ ; Baroness Bemers ^ ; the heir of Lucy Field J ; the heir of Frances Coppinger ^.