IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1067
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: TOWER HAMLETS MILITIA
Date(s): 1824
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.15 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Tower Hamlets Militia
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A militia force was raised from the civilian population of a county, in order to supplement the regular army in cases of emergency. In 1554 a muster of men from the hamlets near the Tower of London was ordered, including Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney, then separate, rural villages. By 1605 East London had become an official military unit with the name Tower Hamlets, and the right to muster the militia was held by the Lieutenant of the Tower.
Information from The London Encyclopaedia, eds. Weinreb and Hibbert (LMA Library Reference 67.2 WEI).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Commission issued to John Hudson, to be Lieutenant of a Company in the Second Royal Regiment, Tower Hamlets Militia.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One document catalogued as ACC/1067/001.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in December 1969.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For another record relating to Tower Hamlets Militia, see ACC/0295.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.