PRECEDENCY.]

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.

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YOUNGER SONS OF BARONS . 10BARONETS . 10

KNIGHTS BANNERETS, not made by the King in person.

KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS OF THE BATH.™

KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE.™KNIGHTS COMMANDERS OF THE BATH.™

KNIGHTS COMMANDERS OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE.™KNIGHTS BACHELORS.

COMPANIONS OF THE BATH.™

COMPANIONS AND CAVALIERI OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE.™

ELDEST SONS OF THE YOUNGER SONS OF PEERS . 16

ELDEST SONS OF BARONETS . 16

ELDEST SONS OF KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER.™

ELDEST SONS OF KNIGHTS BANNERETS . 16

ELDEST SONS OF KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS OF THE BATH.

ELDEST SONS OF KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINTGEORGE.

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ELDEST SONS OF KNIGHTS COMMANDERS OF THE BATH.

ELDEST SONS OF KNIGHTS COMMANDERS OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINTGEORGE.

ELDEST SONS OF KNIGHTS BACHELORS.

YOUNGER SONS OF BARONETS . 16

ESQUIRES . 17

GENTLEMEN.

10 Decree of King James I. in 1612, p. 5, antea.

™ Statutes of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

™ Ordinance enlarging the Order of the Bath in 1815, by which the Companions of that Orderare assigned Place and Precedency of all Esquires of Great Britain and Ireland.

16 Placed before all eldest sons of Knights, by the following Ordinance of the Earl Marshal’s Court,on the 18th March 1615-6: “ It was ordered that the heirs male descended of the younger sons ofPeers of this Realm should take place of the eldest sons of Knights.” On the 6th April 1677, theHouse of Lords moved the King, “ that it may be settled, that seeing all the sons of the Nobility takeplace of all Baronets, the eldest sons of those sons may also take place of the eldest sons of Baronets,during the life of such Baronets.” Lords’ Journals, vol. XIII. p. 102.

ir Doubts exist as to what persons are really entitled to the appellation of Esquire. “ The sonsof all the Peers and Lords of Parliament in the lifetime of their fathers, are in law Esquires, and so tobe named.” (Coke’s 2nd Institute, p. 667.) It was established by a decree of the Earl Marshal’sCourt, in 1615, that the younger sons of Peers, and the heirs male of their bodies, are Esquires (seeSpelman’s Glossary, p. 43); also that the heir male of the body of a Knight, is entitled to that