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(i) Militia Acts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1972

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References

1 Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1661–1662, p. 442Google Scholar (17 July 1662).

2 Western, J. R., The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1965), pp. 351Google Scholar, gives a full account of the Restoration militia arrangements.

3 13/14 Car. II, c. 2, received the royal assent 19 May 1662; LJ, xi, p. 472Google Scholar. The second Act, 15 Car. II, c. 4, was found within a year to be necessary, being introduced in the Commons on 3 April 1663 LJ, viii, p. 464Google Scholar); it did not, however, receive the royal assent until 27 July 1663; LJ, xi, p. 578.Google Scholar

4 Militia Act 1662, s. 1.

5 Ibid., s. 2. In later references I have followed Professor Western (supra, note 2), in terming the lord lieutenant and his deputies the ‘lieutenancy’.

6 Ibid., s. 3 et al.; Militia Act 1663, s. 18.

7 Militia Act 1662, ss. 9–11; Militia Act 1663, ss. 3, 5, 16.

8 Militia Act 1663, s. 4.

9 See Table 1.

10 13 Car. II (2), c. 3.

11 Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1663–1664, p. 458 (29 Jan. 1664).Google Scholar

12 Ibid., 26 June 1664.

13 Militia Act 1662, s. 7.

14 Militia Act 1663, s. 4.

15 Supra, note 14.

16 Militia Act 1662, ss. 16, 17, 29.

17 Ibid. s. 5.

18 Ibid., s. 18.

19 22/23 Car. II, c. 3.

20 Hereford CRO, Hereford Diocesan Archives, Court Papers, I. and O.P., Box 5, bundle 27, Churchwardens of Lyonshall v. Powell, 1684. Detailed assessments for 1636, 1642, 1643, 1645, 1646, 1656 and 1673 were adduced in evidence.

21 See Table 1.

22 Militia Act 1662, s. 4.

23 Proved 23 October 1668 (PCC).