The servants of a duke or marquis had seven rows of curls on their state wigs, six on their house wigs and five on their carriage wigs. |
By cynically playing on the follies of various discontented peers and MPs, he builds a faction round the marquis. |
Next came the marquis of Winchester, Lord Treasurer, bearing the orb as he had done for Mary. |
Well, technically he is a marquis until his father passes on and the title of duke will be officially his. |
But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility. |
He breaks the bank, but when he offers Paulina the money to buy off the marquis, she is ashamed and hurls it back at him in disgust. |