IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS DIPLOM 3
Held at: University College London
Title: Charter giving command of a company in the Netherlands
Date(s): 1674
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The document perhaps relates to the Dutch War when, following the Treaty of Dover between France and England in 1670, the British navy supported the French invasion of 1672. Following the Netherlands' alliance with Spain and other powers in 1673, the French had to retreat, and in 1674 the British made peace with the Dutch.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Charter giving James De Douglas command of a company, formerly under the command of Lt Col Maccay, for the defence of the Netherlands, comprising one folio bearing text in a 17th-century hand, and a second folio, dated 1674, bearing text in another hand.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Dutch. One hand is cursive.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Parchment. The first folio bears a seal.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Source: website http://www.encyclopaedia.com. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
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: Oct 2001