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Wives of the eldeft Sons of Vifcounts. 
* Daughters of Vifcounts. 
Wives of the younger Sons of Earls. 
Wives qf the el.deft Sons of Barons. 
Daughters of Barons. 
Maids of Honour. 
Wives of the younger Sons of Vifcounts, 
Wives qf the younger Sons of Barons. 
BaronetefTes. 
Wives of the Knights of the Garter, ' 
Wives of Bannerets of each kind. , 
Wives of Knights Bachelors. 
Wives of the eldeft Sons of the younger Sons of Peers, 
Wiyes of the. eldeft Sons of Barpnets. 
Daughters of Baronets. 
Wives of the eldeft Sons of Knights of the Garter. 
Daughters of Knights of the Garter. 
' Wives of the 'eldeft. Sons of Bannerets. 
Daughters of Bannerets. 
Wives’of the eldeft Sons of Knights of the«Bath. 
Daughters of Knights oft the Bath. 
Wives of the eldeft Sons of Knights Bachelors. 
Daughters of Knights Bachelors. 
Wives of the younger Sons of Baronets. 
Daughters of Knights. 
Wives of the Efquires of the King’s Body. 
Wives of tiie Efquires to the Knights of the Bath. 
Wives of the Efquires by Creation. 
Wives of Efquires 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. 
Wives of the younger Sons of Knights Bachelors, 
Wives of Gentjemenientitled to bear arms. 
Daughters of Efquires entitled to bear arms, who are 
Gentlewomen by birth. 
Daughters of Gentlemen entitled to bear arms, who are 
Gentlewomen by birth. 
Wives of Clergymen, Barriiters at Law, Officers in the 
Navy.and Army. 
Wives of Citizens, ' 
Wives of Burgefies, 
By the XXIIId article of the Union of Scotland, which 
was confirmed by fiat. 5th Anne, c. 8, as noticed above, 
all pedr§ of Scotland (hall be peers of Great Britain, and 
have rank next after the peers of the like degree in Eng- 
lahd at the time of the union, which commenced May 1, 
1707, and before all peers of Great Britain ot the fame 
degree, created after the union. By the act for the union 
of Ireland, 39 and Geo. III. c. 67, it is enabled, “The, 
lords of parliament, on the part of Ireland, (hall have 
the fame privileges as the lords on ihe part of Great Bri¬ 
tain ; and all the lords fpiritual of Ireland Ihall have 
rank next after the fords fpiritual of the fame raiik of 
Great Britain, and (hall enjoy the fame privileges (ex- 
cep’t thofe depending upon fitting in the houfe of lords ;) 
and the temporal peers of Ireland (hall have rank next 
after the peers of . the like rank in.Great Britain at .the 
time of the union ; and all peerages of Ireland and of 
the united kingdom, created after the union, ftialI have- 
rank according to creation ; and ail peerages oft Great 
Britain and Ireland lhall in all other refpetls be confi- 
dered as.peerages of the united kingdom; and the peers 
of Ireland (hall enjoy.the fame privileges, except thofe 
depending upon fitting in the houfe of lords.”—The 
priority of figning any treaty or public -inftrume'nt, by 
public minifters, is always taken by rank of place, and 
not by title, , 
ROYAL FAMILY of the UNITED KINGDOM of 
GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, (July 1808.) 
The pedigree of the iiluftrious Houfe of Brnnfwic, 
which happily filis the Britifti Throne, has been traced 
by lineal defcent from, the very ancient and nobje lines 
of Witekind the Great* firft duke of Saxony, in 807 ; 
LDRY. 
Pharamond duke of the Franks, anceftor of the Guelphs, 
in 404.; Caius Astius, a noble Roman family, in 390, 
anceftor of the houfe of Efte ; and Herman Billung, 
duke of Saxony, in 900 ; the reprefentative of all of 
whom centered in Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and 
Bavaria, in 1190 ; who. married Maud, the daughter of 
Henry I i. king-of England, lineally defcended front Eg. 
bert, the firft king of England, in 819, according to the 
following genealogy ;. 
Egbert of the Saxon race, firft king of England, crown¬ 
ed A. D. 819; , died in 838; was fucceeded by his 
fon Ethelwolf, crowned in 838; died in 853; whofe 
eldeft fon Ethelbald was crowned in 857 ; died in 860; 
and was fucceeded by his three brothers, the youngeft 
of whom was Alfred, 'crowned in 872; died in 900: 
whofe daughter Elfrida married Baldwin II. count of 
Flanders, front whom defcended, in a direbt line, Ma¬ 
tilda of Brnnfwic, who married William duke of Nor¬ 
mandy, furitamed the Conqueror. After Alfred died, 
the crown defcended to Edward the Elder, his fon, who 
1 was crowned in 900; died in 925 ; apd was fucceeded 
by Athelftan, his eldeft fon, who died without i’ffpe in 
940 ; and the crown defcended to his brother Edmund, 
who died in 946 ; whofe lifterThyra married Gormo III. 
king of Denmark, from whom defcended Swaine, king 
of England, in 1012; who died in 1015; father of Ca¬ 
nute I. who was king of England in 1017 ; Harold, king 
of England, in 1036; and Canute II. or Hardicanute, 
in 1030; who died in 1041. Edmund, fon of Edward 
the Elder, died in 946 ; whofe ion Edgar was crowned 
in 959 ; and dyingin 975, was fucceeded by Edward II. 
who was murdered by his ftepmother; and was fucceed¬ 
ed in 979, by his half-brother Etheldred ; who died in 
1016 ; and was fucceeded by his fon, Edmund II. fur. 
named Ifonftde, who dying in 1017, his fon Edward was 
driven into exile, where he had two children, Edward 
Atheling, who died without ilfue; and Margaret, foie 
heirefs tp the crown'd England, but which was fet afide 
by the conqueft, married Malcolm HI. king of Scot¬ 
land, whofe daughter Maud, in 1101, was married to 
Henry I. fon of William I. tile conqueror of England ; 
which Henry fucceeded his brother in England in 1100; 
and died in 1135; whofe daughter Maud was married 
to Henry V. emperor of Germany ; and in 1134 her-Ton 
Henry II. was crowned king of England ; and dying in 
1189, left two fons, and a daughter named Matilda, or 
Maud, married to Henry the Lion, duke of Brnnfwic. 
From this marriage defcended the noble families of 
Brnnfwic, Grubenhagen, Gottingen, Lunenburg, Ca. 
lehburg, Wolfenbuttle, Harburglt, Zelie, Giifhorti, and 
Danenburg. 
John, fecond.fon of Henry I. was crowned in 1199; 
died in 1216 ; and was fucceeded by his foil, Henry 111. 
who died in 1272; and was fucceeded. by his fon Ed¬ 
ward I. in 1272 ; who died in 1307 ; was fucceeded by 
Edward II. in 1307; who died in 1327 ; and his ion, 
Edward III. fucceeded hint in 1327 ; whole eldeft fon, 
Edward called the Black Prince, (from, his iron or fable 
armour,) died before his father in 1376. Edward III. 
dying in 1377, was fucceded by his grandfo.n, Richard II. 
who was depofed in 1399; and fucceeded by his uncle’s 
fon, Henry IV. who died ill 1412; whofe fon, Henry V. 
died in'1422; and his fon, Henry VI. depoled in 1461. 
Edward I Vi who defcended from the fifth fon of Ed¬ 
ward III. mounted the throne ; and died in 1483 ; whofe 
daughter, Elizabeth, married Henry VII. defcended 
from John of Gaunt, duke of Lancalter, fourth fon of 
Edward III. by which marriage the two families of 
York and Lancafter were (sgain united. Henry VII. was 
crowned in 14S3 j and dying in 1509, left three children, 
a fon and two daughters ; the youngeft daughter, Mar¬ 
garet, married James IV. king of Scotland, who was, in 
1313, fucceeded in that kingdom by his Ion, James V. 
whole, daughter, Mary, was mother of James VI. of 
Scotland, and the firft of that name in England ; whole 
daughter 
