2ND BATTALION DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT OF MILITIA

There orderly books are associated with members of the Mundy family. D5368/2 lists some of the officers in 1798 and names Francis Mundy as Lieutenant Colonel. Another volume, D5368/5, lists the officers appointed in July 1803 and names Edward Miller Mundy (MP, of Shipley Hall) as Colonel of the Regiment, Francis Mundy Esq as Lieutenant-Colonel, and Charles Godfrey Mundy Esq as Major.

<p>For further administrative papers relating to the militia and papers relating to the landed qualifications of militia officers, plus a militiamen's enrolment book, see the Derbyshire Quarter Sessions papers (reference Q/AD and Q/RD) formerly reference number DL MSS A 356.</p>

The power of mustering the population of each county for purposes of order and defence belonged to the Sheriff or the Justices until the 16th century when the power began to be entrusted to a new officer, the Lord Lieutenant of the county. The Lord Lieutenancy became a permanent institution by an Act of Parliament of 1662. A further Act of 1757 stipulated the landed qualifications required for deputy lieutenants and officers, and instituted a system of ballots in each parish to provide the militiamen. Supplementary militia battalions were raised under an Act of Parliament in 1796; these bodies were merged with the old militia in 1798