The papers inclosed herewith, partly law, and partly history, I have taken from an old (and I think authentic) MS. in my custody. What I have copied thereout seems to have been compiled to shew that dignities and titles of honour are constitutionally preserved and derived down in families by the female descendants, particularly baronies; about which in those times perhaps some questions were agitated. Claims of that kind are sometimes advanced in our days: I therefore send these sheets to our brethren of the Antiquary Society; and if they are thought proper memoirs to be read there, and give some amusement to the gentlemen, I shall be agreeably satisfied. The number of pedigrees I was induced to transcribe from what I have observed in the first volume of papers published by the Society, wherein the worthy President, Dr. Milles, has remonstrated against Mr. Walpole's relation in favour of Richard the Third, in which I think the pedigree of Tyrrell, supposed to be the principal agent in destroying the young princes, a striking proof of that fact; and that pedigrees are in many respects useful. At the beginning of the MS. volume is that paragraph which I have prefixed to these papers.