papers, papers
Accession Number
NAM.1974-05-13-28
Description
One of five folios giving the text of 33 Henry VIII, cap 8, an act requiring owners of land to keep horses for use in the defence of the realm, 1541-1542, and of Act, 4 and 5, of Philip and Mary, cap 2, replacing that of Henry VIII, 1558. Required owners of land to provide armour in addition to horses. One of sixteen folios containing extracts from statutes dated from 1327 to 1605, governing desertion and the provision of men and equipment in time of war, nd. From a manuscript book consisting of 174 folios of military information compiled during the early seventeenth century.
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