OCR Text |
Show EARL OF JlEllKELE! Tie English Hjire of Lord. Today IV s ciJes ft Bemnrkaii'.e ind. Historio Peerage' Claim. . TBS DECISION GIVEiJ lit 1B11. Ey the Fame Body in Upheld, and i'.Hiw Peer of tho Bealm Takes His ;-Seat ;-Seat it) the Upper House, Losunv, July 31. The house of lords sitting as a committee fur privileges priv-ileges today decided tho remarkable and hielorie Berkeley pourage claim. The house decided that Randal! Ran-dal! Mowbray Thomas Berkeley had established his claim to the honors and dignities of Karl of Berkeley and Visuuiiut Dir-.ey. The claimaut al-legitd al-legitd that tho male legitimate issue of tho'fitto earl of Berkeley, who died in lct-U, was extinct and that he, being the ehiiTs! 1'ialo heir of the fourth earl, was enticed to tho poerago in question. inpoxnd to tins claim was the claim of K-ranew William Fity.hsrding lterku-ley. lterku-ley. Bauii Fitztiardiug, who assorted thaCM's'f'ifth earl of Berkeley married a wooauu uatned Mary Cole iu 1?5 but 'acting uuiier advices a further marriage ceremony was performed iu 1700. j?ubs9 queiit to the death of the fifth calf n question arose as to the la-gitiinai la-gitiinai y of tnc issue born prior to the record of the marriage and the house of lords ia nil decided that the eldest eon, who was boru in 1h;o, was not entitled en-titled to the succession. 'itvil&ision given today upholds the deciMjJSfg; .en " iu consequently Utjrisciey will hereafter bo a peer ot the rea'.ou Tho house directed tuat ltaron liuharding be uon-suiled. |