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226 pretation of nephew: and therefore when his late majety created his grandon, the econd on of Frederick prince of Wales deceaed, duke of York, and referred it to the houe of lords to ettle his place and precedence, they certified that he ought to have place next to the duke of Cumberland, the king’s younget on; and that he might have a eat on the left hand of the cloth of etate. But when, on the acceion of his preent majety, thoe royal peronages ceaed to take place as the children, and ranked only as the brother and uncle, of the king, they alo left their eats on the ide of the cloth of etate: o that when the duke of Gloceter, his majety’s econd brother, took his eat in the houe of peers, he was placed on the upper end of the earls’ bench (on which the dukes uually fit) next to his royal highnes the duke of York. And in 1718, upon a quetion referred to all the judges by king George I, it was reolved by the opinion of ten againt the other two, that the education and care of all the king’s grandchildren while minors, and the care and approbation of their marriages, when grown up, did belong of right to his majety as king of this realm, during their father’s life. And this may uffice for the notice, taken by law, of his majety’s royal family.