NAM.1974-05-13-50

Text: Militia. Discusses the need to raise 10000 men for the defence of the realm in view of the danger from Spain, nd. One of 131 folios on the organisation and finance of the expeditions to Calais, Germany, the Low Countries, Ireland and St Vincent, the condition of the militia and French officers’ military duties, 1400-1643. From a manuscript book consisting of 174 folios of military information compiled during the early seventeenth century.