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====British baronetcies====
Since 1611, the British Crown has awarded a hereditary title in the form of the [[baronet]]cy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burke|first=Bernard & Ashworth Burke|title=General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire|year=1914|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|location=London|pages=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pf8cAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3|access-date=4 December 2011|quote=The hereditary Order of Baronets was erected by patent in England by King James I in 1611, extended to Ireland by the same Monarch in 1619, and first conferred in Scotland by King Charles I in 1625.}}</ref> Like knights, baronets are accorded the title ''Sir''. Baronets are not [[peers of the Realm]], and have never been entitled to sit in the [[House of Lords]], therefore like knights they remain [[commoners]] in the view of the British legal system. However, unlike knights, the title is hereditary and the recipient does not receive an accolade. The position is therefore more comparable with hereditary knighthoods in continental European orders of nobility, such as ''[[Ritter]]'', than with knighthoods under the British orders of chivalry. However, unlike the continental orders, the British baronetcy system was a modern invention, designed specifically to raise money for the Crown with the purchase of the title.