papers, papers
Accession Number

NAM.1974-05-13-37

Description

One of three folios giving extracts from various acts relating to Commissions of Array, indentured soldiers and deserters, passed between 1327 and 1558. Ends with the decision of the Judges of England on a case involving soldiers going to fight in Ireland who deserted before getting there, 1601. 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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