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Registered Pedigrees
Since the right to bear arms is hereditary, the authentication of arms required the collection of a large amount of genealogical material. This is undoubtedly the origin of the Registered Pedigrees, GO 156-182, but the series very quickly acquired a life of its own, and the majority of entries are now purely genealogical.
It is particularly important for the collection of 18th century pedigrees of Irish émigrés to France, produced in response to their need to prove membership of the nobility; admission to such a position carried very substantial privileges, and the proofs required included the signature of Ulster. The series continues up to the present, and is indexed in GO 469, as well as Hayes' Manuscript Sources. Partly as a result of difficulties concerning the status of lords who had supported James II, from 1698 one of the duties of Ulster became the keeping of an official list of Irish peers, Ulster's Roll.
In theory, all of those entitled to sit in the Irish House of Lords, whether by creation of a new peerage, or by succession, were obliged to inform Ulster before they could be officially introduced to the House. In practice, the vast bulk of information collected relates to successions, with the heirs supplying the date of death and place of burial, arms, marriages and issue. The series covers the period from 1698 to 1939, and is indexed in GO 470.
In order to regulate the assumption of arms and titles, after 1784 it became necessary to obtain a warrant from the king for a change of name and arms. From 1795, the Irish House of Lords made it obligatory to register such a warrant in Ulster's Office. The result is the manuscript series known officially as Royal Warrants for changes of name and licenses for changes of name. Most of the nineteenth century changes came about as a result of wills, with an inheritance made conditional on a change of name. Hayes' Manuscript Sources indexes the series. A similar need to regulate the improper assumption of titles produced the Baronets' Records, GO 112-114. A royal warrant of 1789 for correcting and preventing abuses in the order of baronets made registration of their arms and pedigrees with Ulster obligatory. The volumes are indexed in GO 470.
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