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THE

HUNTINGDON PEERAGE;

COMPRISING A

DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE EVIDENCE AND PROCEEDINGS

CONNECTED WITH THE

Recent Restoration of the Earldom;

TOGETHER WITH THE

REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL:

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

OF THE

ILLUSTRIOUS HOUSE OF HASTINGS,

INCLUDING

A MEMOIR OF THE

PRESENT EARL AND HIS FAMILY.

THE WHOLE INTERSPERSED

WITH A VARIETY OF CURIOUS HISTORICAL AND LEGAL MATTER; AND SEVERAL
ORIGINAL LETTERS, AND INCIDENTAL ANECDOTES, OF DISTINGUISHED
INDIVIDUALS CONCERNED.

BY HENRY NUGENT BELL, ESQ.

STUDENT OF THE INNER-TEMPLE.

IN VERITATE VICTORIA.

Plague of your policy!

You sent me Deputy to Ireland.

SHAKSPEARE'S HENRY VIII.

SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

Comprehending a Genealogical and Biographical History Of the Illustrious House, from which he is descended,

And an Account of his own

happy Restoration
To the Possession of its Ancient Dignities,
Is inscribed,

As a Tribute of Respect towards himself,
And a Memorial to his Lordship's Posterity,

By Him,

Whose professional Exertions fortunately succeeded
In reviving, in his Lordship's Person, the
Earldom of Huntingdon,

Deemed extinct for a period of nearly Thirty Years;
And who has the honour to subscribe himself

10, Adelphi Terrace,

London, March, 1820.

His Lordship's devoted Friend,

And faithful Servant,

Henry Nugent Bell.