Talk:Marquess of Ailesbury
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Proposed Merge
[edit]I think that the page Earl of Ailesbury is overdone and should be merged with this page. Thanks.
- I fully agree! Fernbom2 (talk) 20:25, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
- They do seem to cover the same ground. john k (talk) 23:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
"Nobody wanted to correct the King"
[edit]I removed this unsourced line:
- The county town of Buckinghamshire to which the title refers is spelt "Aylesbury", but the letter from the King confirming the new title wrongly spelled it "Ailesbury", and nobody wanted to correct the King.
This seems likely to be an urban legend - spelling of placenames was not particularly consistent in the 17th century (and here's an 18th century example of the same spelling: [1]); and letters confirming peerages are not written personally by monarchs. More likely it was just two variant spellings, and common usage has gone one way for the peerage and the other way for the town. (It does seem a bit odd that there is otherwise no link to Aylesbury in this article, though.) - TSP (talk) 13:50, 12 June 2017 (UTC)