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Senate House Library, University of London

Debates on the English Militia


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 208

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Debates on the English Militia

Date(s): 1685

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 36 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Militia was a military organization of citizens with limited military training, which was available for emergency service, usually local defence.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing transcripts of debates in the House of Commons dated 9-20 Nov 1685 concerning the establishment of the Militia, entitled 'The severall debates of the House of Commons pro et contra relating to the establishment of the Militia, disbanding the new rais'd forces and raiseing a present supply for his Majesty...'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript quarto. Bound in quarter-morocco. The fore-edge is slightly cropped.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

This manuscript was formerly in the collection of James T Bell.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Publication note:

See Journal of the House of Commons, IX, 755; Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England. From the Norman Conquest, in 1066. to the year, 1803 (R. Bagshaw, Longmans & Co, London, 1806-12).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
House of Commons

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe