This marriage helped patch up relations with the baronage. The term superseded the term "baronage" used of the feudal era. He was the last non-royal person to receive a hereditary baronage. The Trickster of Liberty&colon; Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage in 2005. Particularly well-known is the frequency with which the baronage and gentry indulged in internecine fighting. Possession of a barony was thus the common factor of the baronage. This alarmed the baronage, which comprised only about seventy to eighty families. In 1691 he was raised further to baronage. Like the baronage, the cities were deprived of rights of penal justice.