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DOVER 447 I. Hexry Jermyn was cr., 13 May 1685, BARON DOVER of Dover, co. Kent.(^) By royal warrant 9 July 1689, he was cr. by James II, after his dethrone- ment, EARL OF DOVER, ^c.(^) On i Apr. 1703 he sue. his br. as 3rd BARON JERMYN OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY. He .-/. s.p., 6 Apr. 1708, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller account under "Jermyn of St. Edmundsbury," Barony, cr. 1643; ('>:^'"'<^t 1708. DUKEDOM. I. James (Douglas), Duke of Queens-" . „ berry, i^c. [S.], b. 18 Dec. 1662; sue. his ' ■ father 28 Mar. 1695, and was cr., 26 May 1708, BARON RIPON, MARQUESS OF BEVERLEY, both in co. York, and DUKE OF DOVER for life,('^) with a spec. rem. to his 2nd and younger sons succes- sively in tail male. He d. 6 July 171 1. II. 171 1 2. Charles (Douglas), Duke of Queens- to berry, i^c. [S.], also Duke of Dover, Mar- 1778. QUESs of Beverley and Baron Ripon, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 24 Nov. 1698; d. s.p.s., 22 Oct. 1778, when all his English honours became extinct. ^O cu3 (') This was one of the 10 English Peerages cr. by James II before his exile. See a list of these, ante, p. 224, note "a," iuh Derwentwater. C") See " Jacobite Peerages," vol. i, Appendix F. ("=) This was the first Peerage granted after the Union with Scotland. It is to be observed that his Grace took his seat in Pari., 19 Nov. 1708, as an English Duke, without any protest, though a writ of summons, but 3 years afterwards, was refused to the Duke of Brandon (which title had in 171 1 been conferred on the Scottish Duke of Hamilton) and, consequently, refused to Charles, second Duke of Dover (who claimed his writ in 17 19), by a resolution 14 Jan. 1720. The illegal and inequitable resolution passed by the House of Lords, by a majority of 5 (57 against 52) in 171 1, " that no patent of honour granted to any Peer of Great Britain, who was a Peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, can entitle such Peer to sit and vote in Pari, or to sit upon the trial of Peers," was not rescinded till 1782, in which year, on 11 June, the Duke of Brandon (Duke of Hamilton in Scotland) was for the first time sum. in that Dukedom. G.E.C. First to tell a man that because he is Duke of Brandon, he cannot vote as Duke of Hamilton (which was done by the Resolution of 17 Jan. 1709, "that no Scotch peer, who since the Union shall have received a British peerage, shall vote at elections of Scotch representative Peers"), and to follow that up 2 years later by telling him that because he is Duke of Hamilton, lie cannot sit and vote as Duke of Brandon (which was done in i 7 1 1, as above), seems the height of in- justice, and can only be explained by the jealousy then felt of the Scots in England.