CHAP. IX.
Of the Writ to the Earl of Southampton, Lord Treasurer of England and to the No∣bles not of the Blood.
Of the form of the Writ to the Lords Temporal, Observations upon it, that the
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Of the Writ to the Earl of Southampton, Lord Treasurer of England and to the No∣bles not of the Blood.
Of the form of the Writ to the Lords Temporal, Observations upon it, that the
Degrees of Nobles (viz.) Dukes, Mar∣quesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons) and Titles of the Officers of State are still in∣termixt in the Writs with some of those fiue Degrees, Which of these Degrees are usually made Exemplars, Of the Antiquity of the method us'd herein, Of their Consimilars, Observations concerning the various appli∣cations of the Titles, Chevaleer, Domi∣nus, Miles, Eques Auratus, & Banne∣rettus.