The British compendium: or, rudiments of honour. Containing the origin of the Scots, and succession of their Kings for above 2000 Years: Also the titles, Descents, Marriages, Intermarriages, Issue, Posts, and Seats of all the Scottish nobility, with their Robes, and Arms, exactly Engrav'd on So Copper Plates. Likewise, the institution, Creation, and Investiture, of all Degrees of peerage , and of several Orders of knighthood, viz. the Garter, Thistle, Baronet, and Knight-Batchelor: And lastly of Esquires and Gentlemen. To which is added, the antiquity of arms, and an introduction to heraldry, with above 600 Examples, for attaining a perfect Knowledge in that Science; and to them are subjoined the Atchievements and Regalia made use of at Funerals, with an Account of the Office and Dignity of an Herald.
- Nichols, Francis, active 18th century.
- Date:
- [1725]
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About this work
Also known as
British compendium. Vol.2
Publication/Creation
London : printed by C. Meere, and sold by A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster Row, [1725]
Physical description
viii,511,[1]p.,plates ; 160.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition: with an addition of 200 pages. The whole new modell'd. Vol.II.
References note
ESTC T77909
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.