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Senate House Library, University of London

Army ordnance papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 48

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Army ordnance papers

Date(s): 1683-1702

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 132 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, 1683-1702, containing transcripts of orders, warrants and commissions relating to the offices of Paymaster-General of the Forces in Great Britain, Ireland and Flanders, and of the Secretary of War, the administration of musters, the Chelsea Royal Hospital, and the Ordnance Board with details of offices within it after 1683. There is also a printed copy of His Majesties orders for regulation of the musters, (Charles Bill, Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, London, 1687). There is a possibility that this manuscript was compiled by William Bromley.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio. Bound in vellum.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Accruals:

Archival history:

This manuscript is inscribed 'B/Army/Ordnance', and holds the bookplate of William Bromley (1664-1732).

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Bromley | William | 1664-1732 | politician and writer

Corporate names
Chelsea Royal Hospital
Ordnance Board

Places
Flanders | Western Europe | Europe
Ireland | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe