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BARONY

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARONY  , the domain of a See also:

baron (q.v.) . In See also:Ireland counties are divided into " baronies," which are See also:equivalent to the " hundreds " (q.v.) in See also:England, and seem to have been formed out of the territories of the Irish chiefs, as each submitted to See also:English See also:rule (See also:General See also:Report of the See also:Census of England, iv . 181, 1873) . In See also:Scotland the See also:term is applied to any large See also:freehold See also:estate even when held by a commoner .

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