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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.
伯克贵族名录还把布莱斯宗族上溯到哥泰姆，在英国传说中，这是疯子出没的地方。
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.
剑桥公爵——公爵是仅次于国王或亲王的最高级贵族，是省级行政区的统治者。
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，他们与豪门显贵的密切关系让他们成为了南部邦联庞大的贵族阶级中的一员。

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