William Camden, The Etymologie and Original of Barons (1591)

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Date
15910
Author
Editor
Book title
A collection of curious discourses, written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities
Publication place
Oxford
Transcription source
Hathitrust (from Camden's Adversaria, as owned by Lord Hatton)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
heraldry
Summary
An Essay delivered before the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
205-08
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: I HAVE else where said somewhat of Barones, therefore if now I be shorter, it may be more pardonable. Diverse opinions have been hatched by diverse witts, as concerning the Etymologie. Some deduce Barones from the French Parhommes, as men of equal authoritie; others à belli robore; the German Civilians from Bannerheir, as Lords bearing banners; Alciatus in his parergis juris from Berones, an antient people of Spain, where were mercenary souldiers in that time, as the Germans are now. And Isidore, as probably as the other, deriveth them from the Greek word Βαρύς, because they were valorous and of a stay'd gravity.
ESTC
T112502