History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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Sessions, Meetings, Assemblies, and Places whatsoever, next, and immediately after, the younger Sons of Viscounts and Barons of this Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and before all Knights, as well of the Bath as Knights Bachelors, and also before all Knights Bannerett now created or hereafter to be created (except those Knights Bannerett which shall happen to be created under the Royal Banners of Us, our Heirs or Successors, displayed in our Royal Army in open War, and the Queen herself being personally present; and also those Knights Bannerett which shall happen to be created under the Royal Banners of Us, our Heirs or Successors, displayed in our Royal Army by the first-born Son of Us, our Heirs or Successors for the time being, being Prince of Wales, there personally present in open War, and not otherwise, for the term of their lives only, and no longer respectively ; and also except all Knights of the Noble Order of the Garter, all of the Privy Council of Us, our Heirs and Suecessors, the Chancellor and Under Treasurer of Our Exchequer, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, the Master of the Rolls in Chancery, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Vice-Chancellors, and all and singular Judges and Justices of either Bench, and the Barons of the Exchequer of the degree of the Coif for the time being, who all and singular, by reason of their honorable order and labour, sustained in affairs concerning the State, and the administration of Justice, shall have, take, and hold place and precedence in all places and upon all accounts before all Baronets now created or hereafter to be created, any custom, usage, ordinance, or any other matter to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding), And that the Wives of the said Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai, and of his Heirs male aforesaid, successively and respectively, by virtue of the said dignity of their said husbands, shall have, hold, enjoy, and take place and precedence, as well during the lives of such their husbands as after the deaths of the same husbands, for and during the natural lives of such Wives, next and immediately after the Wives of the Younger Sons of Viscounts and Barons and the Daughters of Viscounts and Barons, and before the Wives of all persons before whom the husbands of such wives by force of these Presents ought to have place and precedence. And in regard that the

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