The creation of new earls and marquesses inevitably led the more senior barons and earls to demand restoration of their pre-eminence.
No other modern society confers titles with the pretentious nomenclature of duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron.
Every lord wanted to be a marquess; every marquess wanted to be a duke.
As we have 30 marquesses we could perhaps charge them £750 each, which would bring in £22,500.
The same applies to marquesses, and to some extent to earls although a few of these have been created in recent times.
The first marquesses (which are sort of jumped-up earls, as indeed are dukes) were created in 1597 and the first viscount in 1606.
Drugs are not confined to deprived or working-class areas; they are found throughout society—as various marquesses could tell us, according to the newspaper accounts.
The same applies to the rank of marquess.
