James I, King of England and Wales:

$2,850 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE DECREE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGS MAIESTIE, UPON A CONTROVERSIE OF PRECEDENCE, BETWEENE THE YONGER SONNES OF VISCOUNTS AND BARONS, AND THE BARONETS; AND TOUCHING SOME OTHER POINTS ALSO, ... A royal decree issued by King James I confirming that baronets, holders of hereditary titles awarded by the crown, were to be ranked below the younger sons of Viscounts and Barons. The practice of awarding baronetcies was introduced by James I in 1611, and this decree was issued in response to a "controversie which did arise upon an inference only out of some dark words contained in the Letters Patents of the said Baronets." This copy has numerous contemporary ink inscriptions in English on three pages, some of which were smeared (and are now mostly illegible) at an early date. The remainder of the inscriptions include proper names, single words, and partial sentences.

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