Jacobite Creation
In 1716 Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton, was created Duke of Northumberland, together with other subsidiary titles in the Jacobite Peerage, by The Old Pretender. The title had no legal validity in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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“Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.”
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