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  • Two physicians outside the bedroom of a desperately sick man: each physician invites the other to enter first. Coloured lithograph by J.B., 18--.

    • Demanne.
    Date
    [between 1800 and 1809?]
    Reference
    659145i
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  • The right of precedence between physicians and civilians enquired into ... / Written by Dr. Swift.

    • Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
    Date
    [1720?]
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  • The right of precedence between phisicians and civilians enquir'd into.

    Date
    1720
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  • The laws of honour: or, a compendious account of the ancient derivation of all titles, dignities, offices, &c. As well spiritual as temporal, civil or military. Shewing the Prerogative of the Crown, Privileges of Peerage, and of Parliament; the true Rank and Precedency of all dignify'd Persons; the most memorable Debates and Cases of Parliament upon Claim of Honours, Precedency, or otherwise. With a compleat and useful Table of the Nobility, setting forth their ancient and present Honours, Offices, Employments, Creations, Successions, Consecrations, &c. The whole illustrated with proper Sculptures, engrav'd on Copper Plates. To which is added, an exact list of officers civil and military, in Great Britain, as they properly and distinctly fall under the supream Officers of the Kingdom, or are any Way remarkable in the Dispatch of publick Business.

    Date
    [1714]
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  • The right of precedence between physicians and civilians enquir'd into.

    Date
    1720
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  • The laws of honour: or, a compendious account of the ancient derivation of all titles, dignities, offices, &c. As well spiritual as temporal, civil or military. ...

    Date
    1726
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  • The question of the precedency of the peers of Ireland in England, fairly stated. In a letter to an English lord, by a nobleman of the other kingdom.

    • Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770.
    Date
    Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]
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  • An historical and critical essay on the true rise of nobility, political and civil; from The First Ages of the World thro' the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, &c. down to this present Time. To which is annex'd, The Order of Precedency; with other Curious Things: Chiefly extracted from a Valuable Manuscript, writ by an Herald. With a Compleat Index to the whole.

    • Shelton, Maurice, active 1718.
    Date
    MDCCXIX. [1719]
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  • The laws of honour: or, a compendious account of the ancient derivation of all titles, dignities, offices, &c. As well spiritual as temporal, civil or military. Shewing the Prerogative of the Crown, Privileges of Peerage, and of Parliament; the true Rank and Precedency of all dignify'd Persons; the most memorable Debates and Cases of Parliament upon Claim of Honours, Precedency, or otherwise. With a compleat and useful table of the Nobility, setting forth their ancient and present Honours, Offices, Employments, Creations, Successions, Consecrations, &c. The whole illustrated with proper Sculptures, engrav'd on Copper Plates. To which is added, an exact list of officers civil and military, in Great Britain, as they properly and distinctly fall under the supream Officers of the Kingdom, or are any Way remarkable in the Dispatch of publick Business.

    Date
    [1714]
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  • The right of precedence between physicians and civilians enquir'd into. Written by Dr. Swift.

    • Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
    Date
    [1720?]
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