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CONTENTS OF PEERAGE.

Principal Abbreviations

Preface to Third Edition, iii Preface to First Edition, vii College of Arms, xii Index To Peerage, xiii Lords of Parliament, Garter's Roll, xxxi to xxxv Peers of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. in Order of Precedence, xxxvi to xxxviii Table of Relative Precedent among Peers, xxxviii to xl

Table of Precedeny among Men, xli-xlii
Table of Precendency"" Women,xliii

The Royal Fmaily:

The. Queen, xliv to xlvii (


Chart showing the Queen descent from Henry II. xlviii to li Prince of Wales, lii-liii Duke of Edinburgh, liv Duke of Connanght, lv Duke of Albany, lv* Duke of Cambridge, lvi O Duke of Cumberland, lvii Chart showing the descent of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg ad Gotha from the Duke of Saxony and Charlemange, lviii to lx

Reigning House of Saxe-Corburg and Gotha lxi to lxvi

Chart showing the Descent of the King of England from Alfred the Great to Queen Victoria, lxvii to lxxi

Royal Lineage of England, lxxii

The Peerage, 1 to 717

Life Peers, 718

Spiritual Peers, 719 to 728


British Orders of Knigthood: The Most Noble Order of the Garter, 780–1 The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, 732–8 The Most Honourable Order of St. Patrick, 734–5 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 736–9 The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, 740–1 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, 742–3 The Order of the Indian Empre, 744–5 The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, 746 The Imperial Order of the Crown of India, 747 The Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, 748–9