precedency
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Lord, 440.Gamarre, the Spanish Ambassador’s Dispute with M. de Thon, a French Ambassador, about Precedency, 400.Gamesters, order’d to the Gallies, 30.Gaming, prohibited by the Pope, 70.——
Prince of Orange’s Dispute for Precedency with the Count d’Estrades, 401.——
M. de, Ambassador, his Dispute with a Spaniard about Precedency, 400.Tingry,
The next that comes to our Observation, and answers to what we first hinted at in the beginning of this discourse of Peals upon Eight Bells, I mean Precedency in Title, is the Bob Major.
From The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence by Howlett, Robert
E. Bishops and their Precedence.—Bishops, in all Tables of Precedency, have place before the temporal barons.
From Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850 by Various