There was no apparent reason why Sir John Villiers should be ennobled, and his peerages were looked upon as a glaring piece of jobbery.
While these men were earning their peerages by the sort of proceedings that do secure men peerages under the British Crown, the German brewers were developing the art and science of brewing with remarkable energy and success.
These are the three main sources of the existing peerages of England, and in my opinion disgraceful ones.
That seemed to be about all there was to it; but there had been so many peerages created of late years that there had even come to be something to deprecate about such handles to your name.
Peerages aren't bought and sold in the market, you know, William.
Supporters appertaining to peeragesare granted by special and separate patents.
I cannot look on life peerages in the way in which some of their strongest advocates regard them; I cannot think of them as a mode in which a permanent opposition or a contrast between the Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied.
Nor, on the other hand, can I sympathise with the objection to lifepeerages which some of the Radical party take and feel.
To be effectual in that way, life peeragesmust be very numerous.
A system of bribery began beyond all previous dreams; peerages were made by the score; and the first national debt of nearly two millions created in less than thirty years.
No more peerages became extinct owing to the Wars of the Roses than would have done so in a time of profound peace.
A few new peerages became extinct because their recipients did not marry, such as Egremont and Wenlock.
Only two peerages became extinct from causes connected with the war.
Of the lay peerages it will be seen that Hugh was in possession of two--the best situated and most populous of all.
But, with the peerages of Europe greatly thinned, with mounted feudalism overthrown, with the press rejoicing as a giant to run its course, something also was needed in order to make a wider theatre for the introduction of the new life of men.
These made the six lay peerages of the kingdom, and, with the six ecclesiastical chief rulers, made the Twelve Peers of France.
Thoughts on the Origin of Feudal Tenures and the Descent of Ancient Peeragesin Scotland, by George Wallace, 1783.
Acts were passed during this session for the restoration of five Scotch peerages which had been forfeited by rebellion in the last century.
These were the peerages of the Earl of Carnwath, Earl of Airlee, Lord Duff, Lord Elcho, and the Baron of Threipland of Fingarll.
Grants andpeerages were bestowed on Sir Thomas Graham, Sir William Beresford, Sir Rowland Hill, Sir John Hope, and Sir Stapleton Cotton.
Surely no one will say that the purchase of peerages and such things are kept secret because they are so light and impulsive and unimportant that they must be matters of individual fancy.
But the decency touching contributions, purchases, and peerages is not kept up because most ordinary men know what is happening; it is kept up precisely because most ordinary men do not know what is happening.
They would always be giving peerages to greengrocers.
Peers had, in fact, as good a right to their peerages as any of their colleagues.
Other peerages since created have, however, been of the United Kingdom.
Whether or not we shall ever have peerages of the Empire remains a matter for the future.
The number of Irish peerages was put in the course of gradual reduction and it is now under the prescribed maximum of one hundred.
With exceptions to be noted, peeragesare hereditary, and the heir assumes his parliamentary seat at the age of twenty-one.
Footnote 143: The crown was authorized to create one Irish peerage only for every three such peerages that should become extinct.
During the thirty years preceding the conferring of an Irish peerage upon Mr. Curzon, in 1898, the creation of Irish peerages was entirely suspended.
The power to create peerages is unlimited[140] and, this being the only means by which the membership of the body can be increased at discretion, the power is one which is not infrequently exercised.
For the creation of lifepeerages there was some precedent, but none later than the reign of Henry VI.
More than one-half of the peerages of to-day have been created within the past fifty years, and of the remainder only an insignificant proportion can be termed ancient.
I shall wait till their inferior arrangements are settled, because the difficulty about the peerages still remains.
The letter to Mr. Townshend respecting the Irish peerages contained the expression of a desire on the part of Lord Temple to take His Majesty's pleasure on the subject of an increase of the Irish peerage.
When the notion of hereditary right had once established itself, the formal creation of peerages by patent was a natural stage.
The bearing of these precedents on the question of life peerages will be seen by any one who goes through Sir T.
He married twice, his first wife being a daughter of George Sondes, Viscount Sondes and Baron Throwley, besides other titles, and these two peerages were revived in 1714 in the person of Lord Rockingham when he was created an Earl.
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance.
The miscarriage of all the Irish Peerages must of course manifest still more publicly than before the bad understanding between master and servants.
The Peerages are expected out to-night, nobody knows why Lord Rous is made an Earl.
Nobody can account for the Peerages not having appeared, as also the Brevet in Army and Navy.
Have you yet heard the reason of the frost which blighted the Irish Peerages in their bud.
The peerages are delayed on account of the question of titles.
Peerages of the Three Kingdoms in order of Precedence.
Peerages of Ireland, extinct and abeyant, alphabetically, according to Titles.
Extinct and Abeyant Peerages of England, according to titles.
Peerages of England extinct by failure of issue, attainder, &c.
Peerages of Scotland, extinct by failure of issue, attainder, &c.
Peerages of Ireland, extinct by failure of issue, attainder, &c.
Two peerages were already engaged in advance, and the arrangement of the Irish list depended entirely on the nature of the pledges to which His Majesty had committed himself in these cases.
In addition to this, twenty-two peerages were created, five Irish peers were called to the House of Lords, twenty advanced a step in the Peerage.
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