Collin's Peerage
The Peerage of England containing A Genealogical and Historical Account of all the Peers in England, Now existing, either by Tenure, Summons or Creation : Their descents and Collateral Lines : Their Births, Marriages and Issues : Famous Actions both in War and Peace : Religious and Charitable Donations : Deaths, Places of Burial, Monuments, Epitaphs : And many visible Memoirs never before printed. Also Their Paternal Coats of Arms, Crests and Supporters, curiously engraved on Copper Plates. Collected from Records, Old Wills, Authentic Manuscripts, our most approv'd Historians, and other Authorities. By Arthur Collins, Vol I, London. Printed for R Gosling and T Wotton in Fleet Street, and W Innys and R Manby at the West End of St Paul's. 1785.
dedicated to John Manners, Duke of Rutland