text: " The House of Commons passed a similar resolution; and the better to testify the national gratitude an annuity of L5000 a-year charged upon the Post-Office was settled upon the Duke and Duchess and their descendants male or female; and the dukedom which stood limited to heirs-male was extended also to heirs-female "in order " as it was finely expressed "that England might never be without a title which might recall the remembrance of so much glory