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 230 CHESTER. XXV. 16411 Charles (Stuart), Duke of Cornwall, also Duke op to Rothsay, &c. [S.], 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h. up. o£ King Charles 1G49. I., wns 6. 29 May 1630, anil wna dedared,^) but never formally a:, Prince of Wales and HAUL OK CHESTER. Probably before Nov. 161], but certaiuly before 4 April 1016 he was acknowledged as Prince of Wales, and (by consequence ?), Earl of Chester. By his Father's judicial murder he became King of England and Scotland, dc jure, 30 Jan. 1648/9, and de facta, 29 May 1660, as Charles It., when all his honours merged in the Crown. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of. 1630. Jame.s Francis Edward (Stuart), Duke of Cornwall, also Duke ok Rothsay, &c. [S.], 6th but 1st surv. s. and h. ap. of King James IL, was b. 10 June 10SS, and was, in the Gazette of 4 July, and again at his baptism, la Oct. 16SS, styled Prince of Wales, and, (by consequence '!) EARL OK CHESTER. On 11 Dec. following his Father was declared to have "abdicated" the throne, and in March 1702 the infant Prince himself was attainted, whereby all his honours became forfeited. See fuller particulars uuder "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1688. XXVI. 1714, If.R.H. George Augustus, the Prince of Great Britain, to Electoral Prince of BruIlswick-Luneburg,( l, ) Duke of Cornwall, 1727. Duke of Cambridge, &c, also Duke ok Rothsay, &c. [S.], s. and h. ap. of King Georoe L, was b. 30 Oct. 1683, aud was, on 27 Sep, 1714 (about 2 months after bis Father's accession to the Crown) ( a ) '■ Sandford says that he was declared Prince of Wales about the period of his insta!lation into the order of the Garter, which was in 1638 ; upon Ids Garter plate, which is decorated with the Prince of Wales's feathers, lie is styled ' Prince of Great Britain and Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay ' only. In numerous warrants, providing for the expenses of his household, between 1634 aud 1644, he is styled "Prince Charles' only ; and one of them, in Nov. 1641, is addressed to the Receiver of the King's Revenue as Prince of Wales. In the Prince's subsequent communications with the Pari., in 1645-6, he is styled Prince of Wales. In a frontispiece annexed to a collection of ordinances and declarations in Pari., published in 1646 by order of Pari, he is represented as sitting in Pari., on the right of the King his Father." See " Courthope," p. 12, note " p." ( b ) He is, in 1706, styled (in the docquet for his creation as Duke of Cambridge), " Electoral Prince of Hanover," but the more correct designation and that which afterwards prevailed in liis case, and in that of others similarly situated, seems to be as in the text. " In 1692, the Emperor, Leopold I, conferred a ninth Electorate on the house of Brunmick-Lunebarg, which was then in possession of the Duchy of Hanover " (Bryee's " Holy Roman Empire ") ; and it is stated in " Sandford " (p. 871) that such elector was so made "by the title of Elector of Brunswick- Luncnburgh." Sandford, however, speaks (p. 875) of "Ernest Augustus, late Elector of Brunswick- Lunenburgh. commonly called Elector of Hanover ;" aud, in the acts for the succession of the Crown (1700), and for confirming the Union of Scotland (1707). his widow [the mother of George I] is spoken of as the " Princess Sophia, Electoress aud Dutchess Dowager of Hanover," her husband having, in 1679, sue. an elder br. in the dominion of Hanover. George I was proclaimed King of Great Britain, &c., in Aug. 1714, as "George, Elector of Brunsiciek-Luncnburg j" the style of George II was "Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Archtreasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Em- pire," as, also, was that of George III, till, in 1816, Hanover was erected into a kingdom, of which the house of Brunswick-Luueburg (Kings of England till 1837), were for 50 years (i.e. till 2 8G6) Kings. In " Les Soicverains du Monde " [5 vols., 1734, Paris], under " L'Electeur de Brunswic," it is stated that " L'Electorat est attache aux duchez de Hannover et de Zclle [1692], le due de Zelle [who did not die till 28 Aug. 1705, some seven years afterwards] ayant nomme son frere son heritier pour unir leurs Etats, afirj d'assurer a sa maison les moiens de soutenir la dignite Electorale." This work, however, is bo far from considering Hanover as being the name of the Electorate, that the only reference to it therein is, in the index, as " Hahmover, residence de L'Electeur de Brunswic-Luneburg."