6. This Dignity, as I said, was ever con∣ferr'd upon some of the chief Nobility, by vertue whereof they had their Writs of Summons, and their Place in the Lords House, and this long before the Act of Precedency, for we find the Earl of Arun∣del, in 13 Edw. 3. and the Earl of Nor∣thumberland, in 7 R. 2. the Earl of Devon, and Marquess of Dorset in the same Kings time, and so the Earls of Salisbury, Shrews∣bury, Worcester, and Wiltshire, and others of the like Degrees recited in the Clause Rolls, (needless to renumerate) being Admirals were summon'd, and in our ex∣tant Pawns, in 36 H. 8. Johanni Dudley, Vicecomiti Lisle, Magno Admirallo, and in 1 E. 6. Tho. Dom. Seymer, Magno Admirallo, and in 7 Edw. 6. Edv. Fenys, Domino Clinton, Magno Admirallo, and in 1, 2, 3, 4, Mariae, & Phil. & Mar. Gulielmo Howard de Effing∣ham, Magno Admirallo, and in 4 & 5 Phil. & Mar. Edw. Fenys (again) and Charles, Earl of Nottingham, in Queen Elizabeth's time, and George, Duke of Buckingham, in King James's time and King Charles the First's time, were still summon'd to Par∣liament with the Title of Admiral added to their hereditary Titles in their Writs, and to this Parliament, Jacobo, Duci Ebor. Magno Admirallo, &c. And all these had their places in the Lords House according