0 the position of being a peer:
She was given a peerage.
He was elevated to the peerage after distinguished service in industry.
Of course, the use of peerages to accomplish political ends was not new.
The demand for peerages increased as rents rose.
The awarding of peerages to politicians and other servants of the state was not a new phenomenon.
Of the 109 nonmagnates created between 1704 and 1847, twenty-four peerages were extinct by 1873 when data on landownership was compiled.
With union, new peerages came into being.
A new peerage had emerged, which helped to save the old.
The nature of the parliamentary peerage had been fixed by 1450; certain peers were by then entitled to a summons.
There is no reason to suppose that the rest of the propertied classes were any more heavily burdened than the peerage.
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