Burkes Extinct & Dormant Baronetcies 1844
A
GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE EXTINCT AND DORMANT
BARONETCIES OF ENGLAND, IRELAND & SCOTLAND.
JOHN BURKE, ESQ. & JOHN BERNARD BURKE, ESQ. SECOND EDITION 1844. KING JAMES THE FIRST
instituted the order of Baronet in 1611, two hundred and
thirty years ago; and within that period, brief in the
estimation of an antiquary, nearly a thousand patents
have become obsolete; nearly a thousand Baronetcies have
ceased to exist: not all, perhaps, become absolutely
extinct, but all virtually so. The personages who enjoyed
those honours have left behind them, however, numerous
and widely spread connexions, who, although excluded, by
the tenour of the royal grant, from their dignity,
inherit, in many instances, their name, in more their
lands, in all, their blood:—to those this book especially
belongs; to rescue them from the fate of their titled
predecessors it is produced, and to their interests it is
mainly devoted, under an impression, at the same time,
that a work directly appertaining to so large and
influential a portion of the community must indirectly be
of value to the whole: that it might prove so, much time
and vast labour have been bestowed upon its composition ; the public
records have been carefully explored, private collections
and private authorities referred to— in fine, nothing has
been left undone to render its statements full, clear,
and accurate. |
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