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purely mythical – if indeed mythical is not too respectable a name for what must be in many cases the work of deliberate invention all but invariably false. As a rule, it is not only false, but impossible not merely fictions, but exactly that kind of fiction which is, in its beginning,
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wrote: "You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done!" In 1901, the historian
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More recent editions have been more scrupulously checked and rewritten for accuracy, notably under the chief editorship, from 1949 to 1959, of
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A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Sixth Edition 1839
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Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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was chairman of the company, taking the role while Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd was
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itself was acquired by Frederik Jan Gustav Floris, Baron van Pallandt, while
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must have landed with 200,000 men-at-arms instead of about 12,000."
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wrote of Burke's "old fables" and "grotesquely impossible tales".
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Freeman, Edward A. (June 1877), "Pedigrees and Pedigree-Makers",
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Burke's Peerage & Gentry International Register of Arms
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4th edition – corrected to 1833 – Vol 2 – Hathitrust
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