Complete baronetage

by Cokayne

Reprint of 1900-1909 ed.

1 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1900

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[Michael Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This quasi-titled order of non-peers was instituted in 1611 purely for monetary gain, to persuade English social climbers with money to aid in the Protestant colonization of Ireland, and later of Nova Scotia. Since it is more broadly based in society than the peerage, the baronetage is of interest in its own right, but numerous baronets later were advanced in rank or married up the ladder. Each original volume was chronological by date of creation, and each had its own index, and so they appear in the reprint volume. The six volumes in the original edition were reprinted in 1983 at a page-size reduction of 80%, to produce a single oversized but manageable volume.