Excerpt from The Peerage of the British Empire: As at Present Existing Arranged and Printed From the Personal Communications of the Nobility; To Which Is Added the Baronetage IT may be proper to remark, that the present work, founded on the personal communications of the Nobility, is classed in two volumes, - the one comprising the living subjects of the British Peerage, including their Collateral Branches, (a feature peculiar to this work, ) and the other exhibiting. 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.