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Excerpt from The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland: With Genealogical and Historical Notices of the Families of the Nobility; The Archbishops and Bishops; A List of Titles of Courtesy; A Baronetage of the United Kingdom; The Privy Council, &C
The establishment of precedence is of very early Eastern origin, and was admitted amongst the laws of Justinian. There are no authentic records of its existence in recognised form in England prior to the Norman invasion, although distinction of rank and place was observed by our earliest Saxo'n and British ancestors, derived undoubtedly, through the various sections of the human family, from the primitive ages. 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.
