baronage

The old-time Feudal Baronage ravaged the world with fire and sword; the modern Money Baronage exploits the world by mastering and applying the world's economic forces.

The baronage was concerned with its financial liability to the crown, "the rights of justice they held over their [sic] own subjects," and its weakened position against "agents of the crown." Id.

The third temptation is apposite: the baronage's claim to political power, currently suppressed by Henry, would reassert itself with the help of Becket.

Scott says that he is quoting Ross, but in fact he is quoting Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie (1694-1770), the Scottish genealogist, whose The Baronage of Scotland (1798) (17) gives an English translation of the relevant paragraphs of Alexander Ross's manuscript Sutherlandiae Comitum Annales (1631), itself an abridgement of an earlier manuscript history by Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1661).

(39) William Dugdale, The Baronage of England (London, 1675), p.

What fears of interlopers and intruders could such a powerful and unshakeable baronage have?

The context is that of the creation of Magna Carta, a venture in which clerics and baronage together are exploring ideas of government.

by bumpyfunk Lordship titles for sale at under pounds 20 - and the peers don't like it It's rich to see protests from the Bradford clan, given that the first of their lineage was awarded his baronage in 1815, after establishing himself in society by becoming MP for Wigan; which had just 100 electors and was a classic 'pocket' borough.

After the Restoration, his works included histories of the law, the baronage, fen drainage, a posthumous edition of Spelman's important Concilia, and even a account of the "late troubles" that led to civil war in the 1640s.

This state of affairs was achieved for a time by Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd in the Welsh north-west, who took shrewd advantage of King John's troubles with his rebellious baronage in England, but it was not to the liking of the English royal regime.