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Being of 
the degree 
of barons. 
Archbishop of Canterbury, lord primate of 
ail England. 
Lord high chancellor, or lord keeper. 
Archbishop of York, primate ot England 
Lord high treasurer. 
Lord president of the privy I 
council, | 
Lord privy seal, 
Lord high constable. 
Earl marshal. 
Lord high admiral. 
Lord steward of his majesty’s household. 
Lord chamberlain of his majesty’s household. 
Dukes according to their patents. 
Marquisses according to their patents. 
Dukes eldest sons. 
Earls according to their patents. 
Marquisses eldest sons. 
Dukes younger sons. 
Viscounts according to their patents. 
Earls eldest sons. 
Marquisses younger sons. 
Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, 
and all other bishops according to their 
seniority of consecration. 
Barons according to their patents. 
Speaker of the house of commons. 
Viscounts eldest sons. 
Earls younger sons. 
Barons eldest sons. 
Knights of the garter. 
Privy councillors. 
Chancellor of the exchequer. 
Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. 
Lord chief justice of the king’s bench. 
Master of the rolls. 
Lord chief justice of the common pleas. 
Lord chief baron of the exchequer. 
Judges and barons of the degree of the coife 
of the said court according to seniority. 
Bannerets made by the king himself in person 
under the royal standard displayed in an 
army royal, in open war, for the term of 
their lives and no longer. 
Viscounts younger sons. 
Barons younger sons. 
Baronets. 
Bannerets not made by the king himself in 
person. 
Knights of the Bath. 
Knights batchelors. 
Eldest sons of the younger sons of peers. 
Baronets eldest sons. 
Knights of the garter’s eldest sons. 
Bannerets eldest sons. 
Knights of the bath’s eldest sons. 
Knights eldest sons. 
Baronets younger sons. 
Esquires of the king’s body. 
Gentlemen of the privy-chamber. 
Esquires of the knights of the bath. 
Esquires by creation. 
Esquires by office. 
Younger sons of knights of the garter. 
Younger sons of bannerets of both kinds. 
Younger sons of knights of the bath. 
Younger sons of knights batchelors. 
Gentlemen entitled to bear arms.. 
Clergymen, barristers at law, officers in the 
navy and army, who are all gentlemen by 
profession. 
Citizens. 
Burgesses. 
• A table of precedency of women . 
The queen. 
Princess of Wales. 
Princesses daughters of the king. ' 
Princesses and duchesses, wives of the king’s 
sons. 
Wives of the king’s brothers. 
Wives of the king’s uncles. 
Wives of the eldest sons ot dukes of the blood 
royal. 
Daughters of dukes of the blood royal. 
Wives of the king’s brothers or sisters sons. 
Duchesses. 
Marchionesses. 
Wives of the eldest sons of dukes. 
Daughters of dukes. 
Countesses. 
Wives of the eldest sons of marquisses. 
Daughters of marquisses. 
Wives of the youngest sons ot dukes. 
Viscountesses. 
Wives of the eldest sons of earls. 
Daughters of earls. 
Wives of the younger sons of marquisses. 
Baronesses: 
Wives of the eldest sons of viscounts. 
Daughters of viscounts. 
Wives of the younger sons of earls. 
Wives of the eldest sons ot barons. 
Daughters of barons. 
Maids of honour. 
Wives of the younger sons of viscounts. 
Wives of the younger sons of barons. 
Baronetesses. 
Wives of knights of the garter. 
Wives of bannerets ot each kind. 
Wives of the knights of the bath. 
Wives of knights batchelors. 
Wives of the eldest sons of the younger sons 
of peers. 
Wives of the eldest sons of baronets. 
Daughters of baronets. 
Wives of the eldest sons ot knights of the 
garter. 
Daughters of knights of the garter. 
Wives of the eldest sons of bannerets. 
Daughters of bannerets. 
Wives of the eldest sons of knights ot the bath. 
Daughters of knights of the bath. 
Wives of the eldest sons of knights bachelors. 
Daughters of knights bachelors. 
Wives of the younger sons of baronets. 
Daughters of knights. 
Wives of the esquires of. the king’s body. 
Wives of the esquires to the knights of the 
bath. 
Wives of esquires by creation. 
Wives of esquires by office. 
Wives of the younger sons of knights of the 
garter. 
Wives of the younger sons of bannerets. 
Wives of the younger sons of knights of the 
bath. 
W i ves of the y oun ger sons of knights bachelors. 
Wives of gentlemen entitled to bear arms. 
Daughters of esquires entitled to bear arms, 
who are gentlewomen by birth. 
Daughters of gentlemen entitled to bear arms, 
who are gentlewomen by birth, 
ives of clergymen, barristers at law, officers 
in the navy and army. 
Wives of citizens. 
Wives of burgesses. 
PRECEPT, inlaw, a command in writing 
sent by a chief justice, justice of the peace, 
&c. for bringing a person, record, or other 
matter, before him. 
Precept is also used for the command or 
incitement by w'hich one man stirs up another 
to commit felony, theft, &c. 
V It E 
PRECESSION. See Equinoxes. 
PRECIPITATION, a 'process. in che- 
mistry, which is a separation whereby the 
particles of a body dissolved and suspended 
in any liquor, are detached from it and fall 
down to the bottom of the vessel. See 
Chemistry. 
PRECORDIA. See Anatomy. 
PREDIAL tithes, those which are paid 
of things arising and growing from the ground, 
only, as corn, hay, fruit ot trees, and the 
like. 
PREDICATE, in logic, that part of a 
proposition which affirms or denies something 
of tiie subject: thus, in these propositions, 
snow is white, ink is not white, whiteness is 
the predicate which is affirmed of snow, and 
denied of ink. See Proposition. 
It is a celebrated law in predicates, that 
nothing is esteemed to be absolutely affirmed 
of another, unless it is affirmed in such a man- 
ner as wants nothing either in the subject* 
predicate, or copula to make it true. 'Phis 
also is a noted property of a predicate, that 
it contains in some measure its own subject ; 
thus, metal contains gold, silver, copper, &c. 
of which it is predicated. Every predicate is 
indeed an attribute ; hut every attribute 1 * 
not a predicate ; thus, soul, learning, aie at- 
tributed to man, but not predicated of him. 
PREGNANCY, is a plea in stay of exe- 
cution, when a woman is convicted of a ca- 
pital crime, alledging that she is with child , 
in which case, the judge must direct a jury of 
twelve discreet women to enquire of the fact, 
and if they bring in their verdict quick with 
child (for barely with child is not sufficient), 
execution shall' he staid generally, till either 
she is delivered, or proves by the course of na- 
ture, not to have been with child. 4 Black. 
395. 
PREllNITE. Though this stone had 
been mentioned by Sage, Rom 6 de Lisle, and 
oilier mineralogists, Werner was the first who 
properly distinguished it from other minerals, 
and made it a distinct species. The specimen 
which he examined was brought from the 
Cape of Good Hope by Colonel Prehn ; 
hence the name prehnite, by which lie dis- 
tinguished it. It was found near Dunbarton 
by°Mr. Grotche ; and since that time it has 
been observed in other parts of Scotland. 
It is both amorphous and crystallized. The 
crystals are in groups, and confused; they 
seem to be four-sided prisms with dihedral 
summits. Sometimes they are irregular six- 
sided plates, and sometimes flat rhomboidal 
parallelopipeds 
Its texture is foliated; fracture uneven; 
internal lustre pearly ; brittle. Specific gra- 
vity 2.6 to 2.69. 'Colour apple green, or 
greenish grey. Before the blow-pipe it froths 
more violently than zeolite, and melts into a 
brown enamel. A specimen of -prehnite, 
analysed by Klaproth, was composed of 
43.83 silica 
30.33 alumina 
18.33 lime 
5.66 oxide of iron 
1.16 air and water 
99.31. 
Whereas Mr. Iiassenfratz found in anotftts 
specimen 
