A Parliamentary Miscellany contains a diverse collection of papers relating to various aspects of parliamentary history, particularly the House of Lords. Subjects include leaders and whips of the political parties, representative peers for Scotland and Ireland and the presence of the monarch in parliament. * Brings together for the first time in one volume a body of work produced by the author over many years * An invaluable text for researchers, providing information that is both difficult and time consuming to obtain * J.C. Sainty is a highly respected parliamentary historian who was a clerk in the House of Lords for 28 years, seven of which he served as Clerk of the Parliaments

This volume contains chronological lists of creation in the peerages of England and Great Britain 1649-1800 and of Ireland 1603-1898 providing details of the grantees and the peerages conferred, indicating any special features and including full details of the sources used.

Each entry specifies the date of creation, the names of the grantee and both the principal and any subordinate titles conferred
Includes the sources from which the information is derived, together with an indication of where the texts of the patents of creation are to be found
Details are also provided where a peerage was granted with a special limitation in remainder
Based on a systematic examination of the documents of creation which has led to the correction of numerous errors - this is of particular value in the case of Ireland where the public records were destroyed in 1922