Seats of the illuſtrious Peers who had ruin'd themſelves by their Folly and Extravagance, and all the Lands got by inſenſible Degrees into other Hands.
The Power of the Houſe of Commons increas'd every Day. The Families of the ancient Peers were at laſt extinct; and as Peers only are properly noble in England, there would be no ſuch thing in ſtrict:neſs of Law, as Nobility in that Iſland, had not the Kings created new Barons from Time to Time, and preſerv'd the Body of Peers, once a Terror to them, to oppoſe them to the Commons ſince become ſo formidable.
All theſe new Peers who compoſe the higher Houſe, receive nothing but their Titles from the King, and very few of them have Eſtates in thoſe Places whence they take their Titles. One ſhall be Duke of D tho' he has not a Foot of Land in Dorſetſhire; and another is Earl of a Village, tho' he ſcarce knows where it is ſituated. The Peers have Power, but 'tis only in the arliament Houſe.
