Taken from the Loseley Manuscripts, this detailed muster roll lists the men in the county militia, stationed at home in Surrey whilst the army was abroad. Compiled from lists from various years between 1544 and 1684. Lists the area, the men's names and their job in the militia. * Digitally enhanced images of the original text * Bookmarked by major headings * Fully printable... More Info
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Kings loved to demand 'free and voluntary presents' (with the emphasis on the word 'demand')! Their bureaucrats loved to list them. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, he desperately needed money. This is a listing of some 6000 Oxfordshire men and women who made their contribution. Did anyone from your parish make a contribution? And was one of your ancestors amongst them? This is a valua...More Info
The appeals are listed in alphabetical order under the name of the person for whom the appeal was made. Where two or more men were considered together, there is one entry under one of the names with a cross reference to the other in its appropriate alphabetical place. As there is much information on employers, an index of them has been included with reference to the employees for whom the ap...More Info
Wiltshire Soldiers Wounded in the English Civil War, Petitions for Parliamentarian and Royalist Pensions Originally Quarter Sessions considered each application in detail with supporting evidence from the soldier’s military commander and local dignitaries. Again, this was more than the full meeting of Quarter Sessions could deal with. In 1662, the petitions were first referred to local JP...More Info
Softback, 195 pages. THE BROAD Town Charity was conceived by Her Grace Sarah Duchess Dowager of Somerset in her Will dated 17th May 1686, the object being to pay for poor boys to become apprenticed to honest trades and callings. The Duchess bought an estate at Cotmarsh in Broad Hinton so that the rents and profits from it could be used for the apprenticing of four boys from the Manors of Broad T...More Info
Compiled and indexed by Chris Willis, edited by Sue Turner, 2009. This CD contains the six Board School Maps of London, produced in 1906/7 by the London Schools Authorities. They were based on the 6" Ordnance Survey stock of the time and over printed with boundaries of the areas used in controlling the schools and also with the actual schools. To provide an index into the maps, a Street index (pub...More Info