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 APPENDIX A 591 ders, unlike all former surrenders, were made by fine; and a fine, although a proper proceeding in the case oi a. Feudal or Territorial dignity, appears to have been inapplicable to a Titular dignity." Again — "The resolution of 1678 is expressly confined to surren- ders by fines, and leaves wholly untouched the validity of surren- ders made by deed, or otherwise than by fine." After the Union of 1 707, when neither the Kingdom of England nor that of Scot- land have any legal existence, "the power of the Crown to alter, to add to or to abrogate the limitations of dignities," in either Kingdom, "is completely lost." See (Fleming's) remarks on surrenders, in Authorities, &c., as to the Barony of Berkeley, 1 862, pp. 66-80, where translations of most of the above surrenders are given. See, also. Cruise, pp. 109-114. In the Peerage of Ireland, there was, in 1 585, a surrender of the Barony OF Cahir to the nephew and h. male of the grantee, by the heirs general, on whom by the spec. rem. in the patent (1543) it had devolved.