The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Grants of Honour, Extracted, by Permission, from the Stuart Papers Now in Possession of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, and Supplemented by Biographical and Genealogical Notes

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Between 1688--when James II and VII was declared to have abdicated his throne--and 1784, James II and VII and his successors in exile (Bonnie Prince Charlie, etc.) retained the plenary authority to bestow nobiliary and chilvalric honors. In fact, the Stuarts conferred over two hundred hereditary titles and made hundreds of court appointments during this ninety-six-year period. The names and particulars of those receiving such titles are extraordinarily difficult to locate, since they do not appear in any of the standard books on the Peerage and Baronetage. For this reason, Genealogical Publishing Company is pleased to announce their reissue of Marquis de Ruvigny & Raineval's acclaimed "The Jacobite Peerage," the only book ever to document these unofficial conferrals. This remarkable work, treating titles that are neither claimed nor used, and which died with the dynasty by which they were conferred, contains a previously untapped wealth of genealogical and historical material.
 

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PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE
xvii
THE JACOBITE PEERAGE
xix
KNIGHTAGE APPOINTMENTS GRANTS OF HONOUR ETC
190
KNIGHTS
190
KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER
191
KNIGHTS OF THE THISTLE
192
DECLARATIONS OF NOBLESSE ETC
193
SECRETARIES OF STATE
212
ECCLESIASTICAL NOMINATIONS
224
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS
230
CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS ETC
233
PARDONS ETC
235
MILITARY AND NAVAL COMMISSIONS
236
VARIOUS APPOINTMENTS
244
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SURNAMES OF PEERS AND BARONETS
249
INDEX OF NAMES IN THE SECOND PART
255

HOUSEHOLD APPOINTMENTS
214

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