Oi! Crispin, Since when were Baronets nobles? Steven <sir_crispin_gaylord@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1122116852.835471.88370@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Steven Smyrl wrote: >> It would be wrong to simply assume that the 'great unrecorded' in Ireland >> are the Roman Catholics. In rural areas, the lives of ordinary joe soaps >> (no >> matter what their religion) is largely unrecorded before the 19th >> century. >> Those who didn't possess riches or commit crimes, these are the folk, the >> majority, that simply slip through the net of recorded history. > > Dear Steven > > And rightly so, bloody nuisances. After all it is only proper that the > spawn of these wretches should gaze in wonder and delight upon such > ancient and noble pedigrees as my own. > > Yours, etc > > Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt >

Steven Smyrl wrote: > Oi! Crispin, > > Since when were Baronets nobles? Dear Steven I am highly disappointed by the tenor of your response but I shall reply nonetheless. My pedigree is ancient in that it ascends to the stout English yeoman Uriah Gaylord of the county of Suffolk floruit sixteenth century and noble in that a peerage dignity (the barony of Springmartin, 2nd creation) has devolved upon the intervening lineage by operation of letters patent of the Crown. Harrumph and good day to you Sir. Yours, etc Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt

This proving my point, Crispin old boy! Nothing noble about you! <sir_crispin_gaylord@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1122122658.814124.56130@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > Steven Smyrl wrote: >> Oi! Crispin, >> >> Since when were Baronets nobles? > > Dear Steven > > I am highly disappointed by the tenor of your response but I shall > reply nonetheless. My pedigree is ancient in that it ascends to the > stout English yeoman Uriah Gaylord of the county of Suffolk floruit > sixteenth century and noble in that a peerage dignity (the barony of > Springmartin, 2nd creation) has devolved upon the intervening lineage > by operation of letters patent of the Crown. > > Harrumph and good day to you Sir. > > Yours, etc > > Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt >

Or even noble ! Brian "Steven Smyrl" <smyrl@indigo.ie> wrote in message news:FfqEe.2840$R5.458@news.indigo.ie... > Oi! Crispin, > > Since when were Baronets nobles? > > Steven > <sir_crispin_gaylord@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1122116852.835471.88370@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> Steven Smyrl wrote: >>> It would be wrong to simply assume that the 'great unrecorded' in >>> Ireland >>> are the Roman Catholics. In rural areas, the lives of ordinary joe soaps >>> (no >>> matter what their religion) is largely unrecorded before the 19th >>> century. >>> Those who didn't possess riches or commit crimes, these are the folk, >>> the >>> majority, that simply slip through the net of recorded history. >> >> Dear Steven >> >> And rightly so, bloody nuisances. After all it is only proper that the >> spawn of these wretches should gaze in wonder and delight upon such >> ancient and noble pedigrees as my own. >> >> Yours, etc >> >> Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt >> > >