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Definition of Baronies
1. barony [n] - See also: barony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baronies
Literary usage of Baronies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"out of every barony, which makes 420/. out of all the seven baronies. ... This was
on the supposition that Connor Roe was to have three baronies and a half, ..."
2. Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"VII. the reien of Edward IV: baronies of Mowbray and Segrave. ... and further '
that the abeyance of the said baronies was subsequently, and previously to ..."
3. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1892)
"But the question has been decided adversely to the validity of such baronies in
the Berkeley peerage case. The Berkeley peerage case came to be decided in ..."
4. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1865)
"124. it was enacted, that the Principal Sum in respect of which the said baronies
or Half baronies and County of the Town of Galway were, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, Or Titles of Honor by William Cruise (1823)
"With respect to the number of ancient baronies, Number of Matthew Paris, ...
But whatever Was the number of baronies at that time, it could net be much ..."
6. English History in the Fourteenth Century by Charles Henry Pearson (1876)
"baronies by Tenure and baronies by Writ.—By the time of Edward I. the inconveniencies
of baronies lr tenure began to be sensibly felt. ..."
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