The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-26
ENGLISH TITLE OF
 BARONET CREATED THREE CENTURIES AGO.

The British title of baronet. which is the first in rank among the gentry and is the only knighthood that is hereditary, was instituted BOA years ago, May, 2,2 1911. It was a rebellion in Ulster which gave rise to this or Her. King James I. needed more money to suppress the instruction, and it occurred to him that an excel lent way to raise the financial wind would be to create a. new title to be whose finances would stand the strain of a thousand pounds. The Earl of Salisbury is popQlarfy supposed to have proposed the idea to King James who was at first fearful lest the scheme arouse the aninosity of the gentry To this objection the kings counsellor is said to have replied: 'eTush, sireS you need the money; it will do you good, and the honor will do the gentry very little harm.''
 It was originally proposed to create 200 baronets on a payment of a thou sand pounds each, or enough to maintain thirty soldiers three years in the province of Ulster in Ireland.' '' It was further required that appH- cantS be gentlemen born,' and that they have a clear estate of a thousand pounds per annum Tn addition to suppressing the rebellion of the na- tive chiefs of Ulster. the baronets were supposed to build churches and towns ip the Irish province, and be ready. to hazard life and money for the welfare of Ulster
 The first batch of baronets created by King James numbered eighteen, and the first of the lot to receive the royal favor on May 22, 1911, was Sir Nicholas Bacon. His successors to this day are styled Primus Baronet- l forum Angliae, or Premier Baron of England. The present premier bar onet is the eleventh of his line, and
 owns an estate of about 4,000 acres.
 The success of the new order in l augurated by James l. encouraged l his son, Charles T., to create a new or
 marked upon the development of the l Canada. of the future. In the year of | his accession, 1925, King Charles es- tabhshed an Order of Knights-Bar- l onets of Nova Scotia, the members of I which were to supply the money need ed to dispute the French supremacy
 in Acadie. Sir Robert Gordon was the 1 first of these Nova Scotian knights l The applicants for this honor were re- quired to contribute substantial sum l to the Nova Scotia colonization fund I and to pledge themselves to found | settlements in that colony. Each member of the order was given an
 estate of eighteen square miles, Many 1 settlers were sent out to Nova. Scotia. 1 and the imni grants dispatched by the
 new baronets laid by the foundation 1 for England's future supremacy in the l Maritime Provinces. Within less than | Q century after the creation of the I Nova Scotia order the end of Acadia I as a French possession was brought
 about by English ships and Colonia.
 soldiers.
 | The baronets of Ireland were creat- l ed by James I. in 1919, the first being 1 Sir. Francis Rlunden. All baronets 4 created since the Irish union in 1901 l have been of the United Kingdom.
 The institution of the order of bar i onets, especially those of Nova Scotia l was an undertaking which has come in for much criticism, as having beer
 animated by purely mercenary mo-