According to the historian William Shaw, this power of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of conferring knighthoods dated back to the age of chivalry, and was confirmed by the courts in 1825 after it was questioned by the Admiralty. See Shaw, William (1906). The Knights of England, Vol. 1. (2 vols). London: Sherratt and Hughes. pp. li–lii. [See also vol. 2]