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ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF IRELAND. 
ARCHBISHOPS. 
Right Honourable William Stuart, D.D. Lord Arcli- 
bifhopof Armagh, Primate of all Ireland, and brother 
to John marquis of Bute. Suppofed annual value, io,oool. 
Right Honourable Charles Agar, D.D. Earl of Nor- 
manton, Lord Archbilhop of Dublin, Primate of Ire¬ 
land, and Bifhop of Glandelagh. 7000I.. 
Honourable Charles Brodrick, D.D, Lord Archbilhop 
of Cashel, Bifhop of Emly, Primate of Muniter, and 
brother to George, vifcount Midleton. 5000I, 
Honourable William Beresford, D.D. Lord Arc’nbi- 
fhop of Tu am , Bifhop of Ardagh, Primate of Connaught, 
and uncle to Henry'marqui? of Waterford. 6000I. 
BISHOPS. 
Right Honourable and Mod Reverend Louis O’Beirne, 
D.D. Lord Bifhop of Meath. 4500I. 
Right Honourable Charles Dalrymple Lindfey, D.D. 
Lord Bifhop of Kildare, Brother to Alexander earl of 
Balcarras, and brother-in-law to the earl of Hardwicke, 
K.G. 4000!. 
Charles M. Warburton, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Lime- 
ric, Ardfert, and Aghadoe. 3500I. 
Thomas Percy, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Dromore. 
40001. 
John Law, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Elphin, and bro¬ 
ther to Edward lord Ellenborough. 4300I. 
Eufeby Cleaver, D.D. Lord Bilhop of Leighlin and 
’Ferns. 3700I. 
William Bennet, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Cloyne. 
-4000I. 
Honourable William Knox, LL.D. Lord Bifhop of 
Derry, fon of Thomas vifcount Northland. 8000I. 
John Porter, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Clogher. 5600!. 
George De la Poer Beresford, D.D. Lord Bifhop of 
Kjlmore. 3600I. 
Nathaniel Alexander, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Downe 
and Connor. 1 4000I. 
Honourable Power Trench la Poer, D.D. Lord Bifhop 
of Waterford and Li3more, and brother of Richard 
earl of Clancarty. 3.600I. 1 
• Chriftopher Butfon, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Cl on fert 
and Kilmacduach. 27001. 
Lord Robert-Ponfonby Tottenham, LL.D. Lord Bi¬ 
fhop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, alias Tanabar, 
and brother to John marquis of Ely. 3000I. 
The Honourable Thomas St. Laurence, D.D. only 
brother of William earl of Howth, Lord Bifhop of Cork 
and Ross. 2700I. 
John Kearney, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Ossory. 2700I. 
Lord George-John De la Poer Beresford, D.D. bro¬ 
ther to Henry marquis, of Waterford, Lord Bifhop of 
Kafhoe. 3600I. 
BARONETS. 
The title of Baronet is a degree of honour next 
below a Baron, having precedency of all Knights, ex¬ 
cepting thofe of the molt noble Order of the Garter, and 
the Knights Banneret created under the Yoyal banner. 
The dignity of every order of knighthood is merely tem¬ 
porary, and can only be enjoyed by the perfon on whom 
it is conferred, during life ; whereas the dignity of a Ba¬ 
ronet is given' by patent, and doles the lix degrees of 
honour which are hereditary in families, and pals by 
the eflabl.ifhed law of titulary defcent.—See the article 
Baronet, vol. ii. p.752. 
Vol, IX. No. 618. 
LORY. <587 
Sir Oliver Lambert having quelled the obfJin?,te rebel* 
lion in the province of Ulfler in Ireland, king James, in 
order to keep it in fubjedlion, inftituted the hereditary 
dignity of Baronet, May 16, T6n, upon the condi¬ 
tions noticed generally .in p.442 of this volume; but, 
more particularly, they engaged each to maintain thirty 
foot-foldiers in Ireland for three years, at the rate of 8d. 
a-day, and to pay the firft year’s wages'into the'Exche¬ 
quer, at one payment, upoupaffing their patents; which, 
with the fees of honour, amounted to near 1200I. The 
pcc.afipii pf. their inflitu.tion accounts for their bearing 
the arms of the province of Ulfler, On a field argent a 
• finiiler hand, couped at the wrift, and eredt, gules; 
thence made the badge of baronetcy. 
The Baronets, from their original inflitution, were 
carefully feledled among the moll diflingui'flied families 
of the gentry, with the indifpenfable requifite of an honour¬ 
able defcent; the honour of the title being next to 
peerage; and fecured by royal covenant of his majefty, 
James I. that neither he nor,his fuccefibrs fhould ever 
create any hereditary honour between them and the 
peers of the realm. They have generally become a con¬ 
sequential part in the concerns of their refpedlive coun¬ 
ties ; and, like the peers, are a part of the ariftocracy of 
the country—but without being marked, by the cautious 
jealoufy of our conftituticiT, as unfit to interfere in par* 
Jiamentary. eledfions. Enjoying thefe advantages, we 
may obferve, that new peers have been fo generally 
feledled from among the baronets, that the latter have 
been emphatically termed—the fiem of nobility. 
When a Baronet is advanced to the Peerage, he may, 
if he ehoofe, and without infringing any particular rules 
of Heraldry, preferve in his arms the badge of Ulfler; 
but the nobility frequently leave it out of their armorial 
bearings, confidering it as the fymbol of a dignity of an 
inferior luftre, accidentally immerfed in the higher fplen- 
dour of the Peerage. 
ENGLISH BARONETS. 
BACON, of Redgrave in Suffolk; created May 22, 
1611.—Sir Edmund Bacon, premier baronet of Eng¬ 
land, and the fifteenth fince the firfl creation, was born’ 
in 1749 ; fucceeded his uncle in 1773 ; married, Jan. 1778, 
Anne, daughter of fir W. B. Prodlor,. bart. K. B. by 
whom he has ifftie, Edmund, born in 1779; married, 
Aug, 27, 1801, Mary-Anne, daughteruf Dafhwood Ba¬ 
con, efq. Anne-Frances, born 1781, and married, Dec. 
1803, to E.T. HufTey, efq. Maria, married, Feb. 1,1808, 
Capt.Hodge, 2d dragoons ; Nicholas; and Henry.—This 
family is delcended from Grimbald, who came into Eng* 
land with William the Conqueror, and fettled in Norfolk. 
His.great-grandfon Robert took the name of Bacon; and 
from him defeended the celebrated friar Bacon ; and 
from a branch of the fame family came fir Nicholas Ba¬ 
con, knt. lord-keeper in the reign of queen Elizabeth; 
and that, prodigy of human talents and acquirements^ 
Francis Bacon, vifcount of Sr. Alban's, lord Verulam. 
For the biography of thefe celebrated perfons, fee vol. ii. 
p.605-607.—Motto, MediocriaJirma, Mediocrity is lia¬ 
ble.—Family Seat, Rav’eningham, Norfolk. 
HOGHTON, of Hoghton Tower, Lancafhire ^created 
May 22, 16if.—Sir Henry Philip Hoghton, the fe- 
venth baronet, was born June 12, 1768; fucceeded his 
father, firFIeniy, March 9, 1795; married the widow of 
Thomas-Townley Parker, efq.—This family, originally 
written de HoRon and Hoghton , have been in great eminence 
in the county of Lahcalfer in'former ages.—Motto, Malgre 
le tort, In fpite of wrong.—Family Seats, Hoghton low¬ 
er, and. Walton Hall, both in Lancafhire; and Heding- 
■ ham Caftle, in Effex. 
PEYTON, of Ifleham, Cambridgefhire; created May 
22, i 6 ii . —Sir Yelvi-rtjon Peyton, the feventh ba¬ 
ronet, fucceeded fir John, his half-brother, in 1772; 
married, March 19, 1773, the relidt of Felix Calvert, 
8 N efq.— 
