The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-31 00:00:00

BARONIES IN ABEYANCE.

Lori REDESDALE gave notice of his intention to
move the following address in the next session of Par-
liament :--

" That an bumble address be presented to her Majesty,
showing,—That withino
fu the Cr
the last century several petitions
have been presented
Crown by persons claiming to
be co-heirs of peerages hundred years in abeyance
which petitions have, according many
to ancient custom, been
referred to the House o I Lords to report thereon ; that the
laborious investig ,tions consequent on such reference neces-
sarily occupy much of the time
thweouhlocuse, I otherwise be
devoted to the judicial bnnesshi:fh which is
thereby interrupted to the inconvenience
with injury to the suitors; that until of the lords, and
to the peerages called out of abeyance
the period referred
and only in favour of personsinheritian were
few
in number
and well-known descent from the former
immediate
said peerages ; whereas in many cases of lartehrollders of the
( ate that in-
heritance, from the long duration of the abeyance,
come remote, indirect, and generally unknown, until proved
be-
by the evidence before the house ; that the earliePsrt°ved
pre-
cedent to be found for calling a peerage out of abey-
ance is neither very ancient nor altogether free from
the objection which necessarily attaches to any act done
for the first time to meet a particular case, being that of
the barony of Despencer, the abeyance of which was ter-
minated by King James the First in 160 , in order to carry
out the amicable arrangement suggested by the House of
Lords for the purpose of relieving themselves from the
duty of deciding in favour of vile of the two claimants of
the barony of Aberg.venny ; that an undue precedene-
aears to be given to the person in whose favour an abey-
ance
for many generations is terminated over other baron-
of ancient descent inheriting their titles through a long
series
- of ance,ters • th in when in 17&t
an c- us, the first case referred to.
Lord Botetowrt abeyance of 35S years was terminated, the
that name, and
yet ntosnrikmmoned sat as third lord only of
Audley and the 15th Lord
before the 17th Lord
her Majesty that her ;1 Stourton • —end humbly pray-
ingto consider whether it is aje"Y will graeiouely pleased'
blished custom of expedientreferringal to adhere to the esta-
peerages to the House of Lordspeitions of persons claim-
ingsball appear from such petitions, or in
any ease in which it
an
torney-.C.;-aneral thereon, that the Y report of the At-
abeyance and has been so for more than
age claimed is it.
',that bar MA jeoty may be further gracio.4ly Jeal-s; and
n pleased to act

in relation to such peerages in such manner as may appear
expedient to her Majesty."
Lord CAMPBELL Said, that the only remedy seemed
to be to declare that after a peerage had been for a cer-
ain number of years in abeyan -e i hould not be
claimed. Otherwise right must be done ; and their lord-
ships could not refuse a claimant his rights by sayil g
is was inconvenient to do him justice. He did not think
he rights of the peerage would be impaired if it were
laid down that a peerage should be no longer claimed
after it had been 100 years in abeyance.
The motion was then agreed to.
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