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TOWER HAMLETS MILITIA


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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Commissioned officers | Military personnel
Commissions (armed forces) | Armed forces | State security
Militia | Armed forces | State security
Militia records | Documents | Information sources
Military personnel x Armed forces
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Tower Hamlets Militia

Places
Tower Hamlets | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe