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Burkes Peerage also traced the Blythe’s back to the village of Gotham, which, according to English legend, was a haunt of madmen.
伯尅貴族名錄還把佈萊斯宗族上溯到哥泰姆，在英國傳說中，這是瘋子出沒的地方。
Duke of Cambridge - a dukedom is the highest rank in British peerage. Dukes were the the rulers of the provinces and the King's closest peers in centuries gone by.
劍橋公爵——公爵是僅次於國王或親王的最高級貴族，是省級行政區的統治者。
They were related to the This Family and the That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitled them to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populated the Confederacy.
南部人都知道，他們與豪門顯貴的密切關系讓他們成爲了南部邦聯龐大的貴族堦級中的一員。

It is notable, too, that representation from the hereditary peerage on that plutocrats' list is falling too.
ECONOMIST: M’lords, ladies and gentlemen
He seems to think (he would not be the first, nor wrong) that you can buy a peerage.
ECONOMIST: Living on his wits The