[Rarebooks] [b] 1642 TREATISE OF THE NOBILITIE OF THE REALME (re. Primogeniture, Barony of Abergavenny, etc.)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th, 18th, & 19th-century titles, auctions ending Sunday, October 7. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

http://tinyurl.com/9lho2bh

Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


[William Bird:] A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected out of the Body of the Common Law, with mention of such Statutes as are incident hereunto, upon a debate of the Barony of Aburgavenny. With a Table of the heads contained in this Treatise. London: Printed by A.N. for Mathew Walbanke and Richard Best, and are to be sold at their shops at Grayes-Inne gate, 1642. FIRST EDITION. Recent paper-covered boards and printed spine label; 12mo (15 cm); [4], 157, [1] pp.; woodcut genealogical tables, decorations and initials. ESTC R18509; Wing B2956

Title-page browned with some loss to the margins, professionally repaired and backed with archival tissue; some browning and chipping to the fore-edges of the subsequent six leaves (not affecting any text); leaves toned and darkened at the edges throughout; three or four leaves roughly opened at the fore-edge with some loss to the margin (but again, not affecting text); otherwise contents are sound and firmly bound in a fresh new binding.

An examination of the peerage and rights of inheritance, particularly as they apply to the title of baron, and specifically the convoluted case of the Barony of Abergavenny. It seems this title was allowed, atypically for the time, to descend via the daughter, which indeed it did on the death of the second baron in 1421. But after the death of the first baroness in 1447, this stipulation was ignored, the title passing to her widower rather than to her son as it should have done. Therefore, the argument goes, all subsequent baronies of Abergavenny were created by error. Section headings include: The Antiquitie of the Dignitie of Barons, and the uses of the Name; Certaine Cases wherein a Baron hath no priviledge; Noble Women; Honourable Women of three sorts; Ladyes in Reputation; The Barony of Aburgavenny, a Barony by Tenure, and an ancient Honour; The Descent; The family of Beauchampe…; etc.

A fascinating glimpse at the abstruse worlds of inheritance law and genealogy, though, with the English Civil War erupting as it was published, you'd think people might have had bigger things on their mind.
_______________________________________________
Biblio mailing list
Biblio at bibliophilegroup.com
http://bibliophilegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/biblio_bibliophilegroup.com