No earldom, baronetage, or knighthood protected him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

The history of the baronetage was uneventful till 1783, when in consequence of the wrongful assumption of baronetcies, an old and then increasing evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Eight years later (30th of September 1619), the baronetage of Ireland was instituted, the king pledging himself not to create more than a hundred baronets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Rebecca Sharp — in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

An old English gentleman was wont to declare that more of disagreeable eccentricity is to be found amongst members of the baronetage than amongst those of any other order of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference

Among its most prominent members were John Beverly Robinson, for some years attorney-general, and eventually an able chief-justice, and the recipient of a baronetage; William Dummer Powell, a chief-justice; John Henry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

When it was instituted, in May 1611, the king, to keep the baronetage select, covenanted that he would not create more than two hundred, and that only those who had £1000 a year in landed estate and whose paternal grandfathers had borne arms should receive the honour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

The baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of promoting the "plantation" of that province, and James announced his intention of creating a hundred baronets, each of whom was to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2000 marks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1000 marks to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

For the female mind the baronetage has a peculiar fascination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

Thomas, a lineal descendant, succeeded to the baronetage on the death of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account] Reference

Physic hardly ever raised its professors above knighthood, or a baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

He was a knight of the shire, and had refused a baronetage, and, it was said, had his eye on a peerage.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3] Reference

Sir John having survived all his brothers, and dying without issue, the baronetage became extinct at his death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical] Reference

It leaves out of sight the most endearing, because the most human, trait of the baronetage -- its pecuniary origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

Why does not some one publish a list of the young male nobility and baronetage, their names, weights, and probable fortunes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

About the year 1795 the baronetage was revived, and William Feltram enjoyed the title for fifteen years, as Sir William Mardykes.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3] Reference

"Oh, Mr. Deronda is not so very high," said Kate, "He need not hinder us from thinking ill of the whole peerage and baronetage if we like.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

When she returned in triumph to England, she coaxed her foolish husband to appropriate some of his rupee riches to the purchase of a baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference

The whole baronetage, peerage, and commonage of England did not contain a more cunning, mean, foolish, disreputable old rogue than Sir Pitt Crawley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference

Sharp -- in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

The untitled aristocracy have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Original Family Documents] Reference

Finally, I went to the anteroom and turned over the regimental literature, -- a peerage and baronetage, -- an army and militia register, a number of the Sporting Magazine, and one of the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference

Three or four years since he had been ill, nearly to dying, and had declared that he never would have recovered but for the necessity that he was under to keep his cousin out of the baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kept in the Dark] Reference

One great man to a house is the usual country allowance, and many are not very long in letting out who theirs are; but Puffington seemed to have the whole peerage, baronetage, and knightage at command.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

This is scarcely to be wondered at, when beneath one roof were assembled the heirs-presumptive to three dukedoms, two suicidal marquises, an odd archbishop or so, and the flower of the baronetage and clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lunatic at Large] Reference

Mrs. Carey had not been very young at the date of her marriage, and her fortune was moderate enough, for the moneyed strength of her grandfather and father had gone to found a family and support a baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

Coming thus, from this upright and honourable old man, whose least merit it was to hold, and worthily, a baronetage centuries old, it made John's cheek glow with an honest gratification and a pardonable pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

This is scarcely to be wondered at, when beneath one roof were assembled the heirs - presumptive to three dukedoms, two suicidal marquises, an odd archbishop or so, and the flower of the baronetage and clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lunatic At Large] Reference

Coming thus, from this upright and honorable old man, whose least merit it was to hold, and worthily, a baronetage centuries old, it made John's cheek glow with an honest gratification, and a pardonable pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

He pointed out delicately to advertisers that there would be no such medium as the Pall Mall Gazette for giving publicity to their sales; and he eloquently called upon the nobility of England, the baronetage of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

I cannot help feeling that this account of the baronetage, though admirable in tone and spirit, and actually pathetic in its closing touch of regretful melancholy, is a little wanting in what the French would call "actuality.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

I have been informed from undoubted authority, people who were about him at the time, and knew, that the reason he quarrelled with that nephew of his, who died two years ago, was the young man's having accepted a baronetage: and at that time old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 05] Reference

So I told a puppy of a nephew of mine, who would go and buy a baronetage, forsooth -- disinherited him! but he is dead, poor puppy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 05] Reference

To this set you may add the whole of the baronetage -- for I have remarked that baronets hang together like bees or Scotchmen; and if I go to a baronet's house, and speak to some one whom I have not the happiness to know, I always say "Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

By-the-bye, I give you joy of your baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 09] Reference

A member of the baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference

'pro&ssofi above koighdiood, or baronetage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peerage of England. ...] Reference