The Irish compendium; or, Rudiments of honour. Containing the descents, marriages, issue, titles, posts, and seats of all the nobility of Ireland; with their arms, crests, supporters, mottos and Parliament robes ... Also a supplement, shewing the antiquity, dignity, and use of armories ..
A 1745 London peerage handbook by Francis Nichols, printed by Knapton, listing the descents, titles and seats of the Irish nobility for genealogists and heralds. Copper-engraved plates give ranked rows of achievements of arms: quartered shields, coronets, mantling scrollwork, motto ribbons, and lion, griffin and antelope supporters, usable as crests, borders and decorative beasts.
