Excerpt from Baronia Anglica Concentrata; Or a Concentrated Account of All Baronies Commonly Called Baronies in Fee, Vol. 1: Deriving Their Origin From Writ of Summons, and Not From Any Specific Limited Creation

Since then, through the, succeeding reigns, so large has been the number, and so indiscriminate the selection of Peers, most especially during late years, that there are few country gentlemen of tolerable fortune, and any ancient noble blood in their veins, who have not thought themselves qualified for similar distinction, and felt their pride excited bv the exaltation of some less meritorious, and qualified of their acquaintance, and on this account I am prone to believe the information contained in these volumes, will be found interesting.

The subject of this work has been divided into two parts, viz., the first volume con taining an account of those persons who are mentioned by Sir William Dugdale to have had summons to parliament as barons of the realm; the second volume embracing an account of divers eminent persons noticed in his Lists of Summons to have been simi larly called to parliament by writ, and therein ranked among the earls and other barons, and yet totally passed over in the text of his celebrated Baronage.

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