Thomas Bancks

Bawdley

1808 Coumes 15/

THE

BARON ETAGE

O F

ENGLAND:

CONTAINING

A Genealogical and Hiftorical Account

OF ALL THE

ENGLISH BARONETS

NOW EXISTING:

With their DESCENTS, MARRIAGES, and
MEMORABLE ACTIONS both in WAR and PEACE.

COLLECTED FROM

AUTHENTIC MANUSCRIPTS, RECORDS, Old WILLS, our beft
HISTORIANS, and other AUTHORITIES.

Illuftrated with their

COATS of

ARMS,

Engraven on COPPER-PLATES.

ALSO, A

LIST of ALL the BARONETS,
Who have been advanced to that DIGNITY, from the firft
INSTITUTION thereof.

To which is added,

An AccoUNT of fuch NOVA-SCOTIA BARONETS
as are of ENGLISH FAMILIES;

AND A

DICTIONARY of HERALDRY,
Explaining fuch Terms as are commonly used in ENGLISH .

ARMORY.

By E. KIMBER and R. JOHNSON.

VOLUME the FIRST.

LONDON,

Printed for G. WOODFALL, J. FULLER, E. JOHNSON, HAWES, CLARKE and
COLLINS, W. JOHNSTON, S. CROWDER, J. WILKIE, T. LONGMAN,
B. LAW, T. LOWNDES, T. CASLON, ROBINSON and ROBERTS,
W. NICOLL, R. BALDWIN, Z. STUART, and W. DAVIS.

MDCCLXX I.

(iii)

PREFACE.

M

R. WOTTON (that indefatigable Labourer in the golden Mines of Antiquity,

whofe Avenues were rendered almost inacceffible by the destructive Hand of Time, and the cruel Ravages of barbarous Nations) has cleared the Paths, which lead to the Perfection of this intricate Science. Neither the great Difficulties attending Genealogical Enquiries, (in which fo many Centuries were to be traced, and the Thread to guide him generally fo flender, and, fometimes broken,) nor the Impoffibility of perfuading fome Families to give the least Affistance, were able to deter him from this very difficult Purfuit. In Spite of all Obstacles, in the Year 1741, he published his laft Account of the English Baronets, of which this is prefented to the Public as a New Edition, and Continuation to the present Time.

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