Nisbets of that Ilk ended upon his death. The chiefly line was reestablished in 1995, in the favour of distant cousin Robert Anthony Ellis Nesbitt. Publications An Essay on Additional Figures and Marks of Cadency. Shewing, the Ancient and Modern Practice of Differencing Descendants in This and Other Nations. More Fully and Exactly, than Any Thing Hitherto Published upon This Part of Heraldry. (1702) Proposals for Printing an Essay of the Ancient and Modern Use of Armories. (1718?) An Essay on the Ancient and Modern Use of Armories; Shewing Their Origin, Definition, and Division of Them into Their Several Species. The Method of Composing Them and Marshalling Many Coats Together in One Shield. Illustrated by Many Examples and Sculptures of the Armorial Ensigns of Noble Families in This and Other Nations. To Which Is Added, an Index Explaining the Terms of Blazon Made Use of in This Essay. (1718) A System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical: With the True Art of Blazon, According to the Most Approved Heralds in Europe: Illustrated with Suitable Examples of Armorial Figures, and Achievements of the Most Considerable Surnames and Families in Scotland, &c. Together with Historical and Genealogical Memorials Relative Thereto. (1722) Proposals for Printing by Subscription a Supplement and Appendix to the System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical, lately published by Alexander Nisbet, Gent. (1723?) References External links Greyfriars Kirk 1657 births 1725 deaths Writers from Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Lawyers from Edinburgh British heraldists Scottish genealogists Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard