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 214 BACON — BADLESMBBE. B. {Note. — In commencing a. new letter the Editor has resolved to discontinue the reprinting from Courihope's " Historic l'ecragc M the account therein given of English I'aronics by tenure, as was proposed to he done (at page 0 i" the Preface of this WoHc. Mr. Court hope paid hut little attention to these dignities, and makes no mention whatsoever of tt tVKjf consiitemble number of them, while the account given of them hy Sir N. H. Nicolas in 18:5 is (small hlnmc to him) extremely inaccurate when tested by the light of modern researches extending over a space of threescore years. The account, for instance, (reprinted in pp. 66 and 67 of this work) of Auhni, Karon hy tenure, is, as has been pointed out, full of errors, and the reproduction of such Recounts without accurate supervision (which the Editor has neither the will nor the capacity to bestow'), does more harm than good. An Anglo Norman Baronage has been many years in preparation by one well versed in that period (Mr. Chester Waters), which would include Baronies by tenure, a class of dignities best treated of by themselves excepting only when, as in the case of Abergavenny and Berkeley, they arc supposed to have " crystallised * into <etimt Peerages, which (and which atone) are the objects of this work.J BACON. No Peerage dignity ever existed of tliis name, yet the celebrated Sir Francis Bacon {Lord Keeper (1616-17), Lord Chancellor 161 7-1 S, who was, in 1618, <•;•. Bahox Ykmi'lam anil, in 1621, Viscount St. Ai.iuns), is very generally, though erroneously, spoken of as LOUD BACON." 1 ) See " St. Albans," Viscount, cr. 1621, ex. 1626. BAD ENOCH. i.e. "LORD OF BADENOCH" [S.1 Alexander (Stewart) Earl of Bhchas [S.1 &c, (4th sun of Robert II [S.]), is so styled. See "Buchan," Earl of [S.1 cr. 1374. i.e. » LOKD BADENOCII " [S.1 See " Huxtly," Marquess of [S.], cr. 1599. PiADLESMERE. Barons by 1. 'BARTHOLOMEW de BablesMEHB of Badlesmere aiul Writ. Chilham Castle, Kent, s. and h. of Gunsehn ile B. of Badlesmere afsd., Justice of Chester, by Johanna, da. of Ralph Fitz Bkhxaiid of I. 1309, Kingsdown in that co. (iu t and, in Uov issue, h. to Thomas, Lord to Fitz Beiinard), attended (v.p.) the war in Gascony (1294), 22 Ed, I; 1322. sue. his father in 1301, being then aged 26; was in the Scottish wars 1303 and 1304 ; Governor of Bristol Castle 1307 ; had a graat of the Castle and Manor of Chilham, Kent, 1309, and from 26 Oct. (1309), 3 Ed. II, to 15 May (1321), 14 13d. II, was num. as a Baron (LORD BADLES- ( !1 ) He is styled "Lard Bacon" in works published as early as 165?, 1661,1671, &c. See " N. and Q.," 6th s., x, 502. But see also " N. & <$.," 3rd s., ii, 200, where it is stated " that persons holding the inferior offices [i.e. inferior to the office oi Chancellor] of Chief Judges in the Courts of Common Law were then called Lordly though not Beers, as Lord Coke, Lord Hailes and Lord Holt." " Lord Hailes,' however, is not a case in point ; Sir David Dalrymple, Burt [S.], being a Senator of the College of Justice, and having assumed that stylo* in accordance with Scottish custom. Brunton and Haig's " Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice. L'.r. inform. H. Gough.
 * The titles of all these, whom the Scotch call "Paper Lords," will bafbuod in