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The Official Grants and Confirmations of Arms
One of the later effects of the lack of visitations was to make it difficult for Ulster to verify from his own records that a particular family had a right to its arms. This gave rise to the practice, peculiar to Ireland, of issuing confirmations of arms, which were taken as official registrations, and were dependent on an applicant being able to show that the arms in question had been in use in his family for three generations or one hundred years.
The records of these confirmations, and of actual grants of arms, are found in GO 103-111g, dating from 1698, and still current. Earlier grants and confirmations are scattered through the manuscript collection; a complete index to all arms officially recorded in the Office is to be found in GO 422. Hayes' Manuscript Sources for the Study of Irish Civilization reproduces this, and includes a summary of any genealogical information.
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