This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... but notwithstanding which the same relative precedency was assigned to the Attorney and Solicitor-General at the Coronation of King George IV. in 1821, see p. 69. 52. Knights Bannerets made under the King's Banner. By decree of King Jas. I. a reg. 10. cited under 55. Previously to which they had ranked before ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... but notwithstanding which the same relative precedency was assigned to the Attorney and Solicitor-General at the Coronation of King George IV. in 1821, see p. 69. 52. Knights Bannerets made under the King's Banner. By decree of King Jas. I. a reg. 10. cited under 55. Previously to which they had ranked before the Younger Sons of Barons (Order of all Estates, anno 1399, cited under 19). There have not been any such Knights however for many years; but as the dignity is recognized by the Crown in all Patents of Baronets to the present day, the place of Knights Bannerets is pointed out thus, although they are displaced by the Statutes of the Order of the Bath of 1847, which ordain that the Grand Crosses shall take place next and immediately after Baronets. The honour of Knight Banneret is very ancient, and until the foundation of the Order of the Garter, there was no rank between them and Barons, to whom they were next in dignity, as would appear by the Stat. 5 Ric. II., stat. 2, cap. 4, whereby every one was ordered to obey his summons to Parliament, and if any person which from thenceforth should have the said summons, be he Archbishop, Bishop, Abbot, Prior, Duke, Earl, Baron, Banneret, Knight of the Shire, Citizen of City, Burgess of Borough, or other singular person or commonalty, do absent himself and come not at the said summons, except he may reasonably and honestly excuse him to the King, he shall be amerced, &c. And by Stat. 14 Ric. II. c. 11, whereby eight Justices of the Peace were assigned to each county besides the Lords assigned in that Parliament, and wherein it is ordered, that no Duke, Earl, Baron, or Banneret, whilst they be assigned Justices of the Peace, and hold their Sessions with the other eight, shall take any wages for the...
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