baronetages

Updated: May 13, 2025

For through this partly we have attained to a knowledge of Dorothy's surroundings; and through the baronetages, peerages, and the invincible heaps of genealogical records, we have gathered some few actual facts necessary to be known of Dorothy's relations, her human surroundings, their lives and actions.

Dorothy Osborne - The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54

A big, roomy desk, middle-Victorian in style, some heavy middle-Victorian chairs, a well-worn carpet and rug, a book-case filled with peerages, baronetages, county directories, Army lists, Navy lists, and other similar volumes of reference to high life, a map or two on the walls, a heavy safe in a corner these things were all there was to look at.

J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher - The Chestermarke Instinct