Prestwich's Respublica, or, A display of the honors, ceremonies & ensigns of the Common-wealth under the protectorship of Oliver Cromwell : together with the names, armorial bearings, flags & pennons of the different commanders of the English, Scotch, Irish Americans and French : and an alphabetical roll of the names and armorial bearings of upwards of three hundred families of the present nobility & gentry of England, Scotland, Ireland, etc., etc
An antiquarian heraldic compilation by John Prestwich, printed in London by J. Nichols in 1787, cataloguing the honours, ceremonies and armorial bearings of the Cromwellian Commonwealth for genealogists and gentry readers. Engraved plates give ranked grids of naval flags and banners with charges, national ensigns, pennons, and shields with mantling, supporters, crests and motto scrolls, usable as ready-made emblem stock, border ornament and label ribbons.
