A Genealogical And Heraldic History Of The Landed Gentry Or Commoners Of Great Britain And Ireland Etc

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Excerpt from A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, or Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions or High Official Rank, but Uninvested With Heritable Honours, Vol. 1 of 4 The First Volume of this Work is now completed, and an Opinion may be formed of a project, which was deemed at its announcement so beset by difficulties, as to hold out little hope of a successful issue. Those difficulties have however passed away - the completion of the first volume is accomplished, and nothing formidable remains to impede the progress of the second. In these pages will be found the lineage of nearly four hundred families, enjoying in the aggregate probably a revenue of two millions sterling, and deriving, many of them, their territorial possessions from william OF norman dy; invested however with no exclusive rank - designated by no exclusive title - and born to no exclusive privilege. To this grade in her social system her independent country gentlemen - England is mainly indebted for her greatness abroad, and her prosperity at home. In this - and her free insti tutions, she differs from every other country in Europe. It was the Author's intention to acknowledge his obligations to his principal correspondents individually; but, on referring to the list, he finds it so extensive, that it would be entirely out of place to present such a catalogue here. He begs of them, nevertheless, to be assured that he entertains the strongest sense of the great and valuable assistance he has received. Indeed he is con vinced that, could he adhere to his original determination, he should by simply so doing propitiate a more than ordinary degree of favor. He cannot, how ever, forbear recording the debt he owes to Sir David William Smith, bart. Of Alnwick; to William Henry Allan, esq. Of Durham; to Michael Jones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.