Alphabetical index to the Patent Books held by the office of the auditor general of Great Britain, in which are recorded records of Irish patents and grants. Caption title on first page of text reads: Private property. An alphabet of names of patentees, lessees, manors, monasterys, abbeys, priorys, rectorys, churches, religious houses, tythes ... compiled by Henry Harding, 29th September 1788. On final page is a recipe, dated 21 Oct. 1804, for "Manders's blacking liquid" (shoe polish or varnish).