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1 item extracted from SP 16/339 (number 2). 'Description de tous les orders militaires...
Catalogue reference: EXT 9/46
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from SP 16/339 (number 2). 'Description de tous les orders militaires... dating from [1636] in the series Public Record Office: Items extracted to flat storage from various classes of records.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- EXT 9/46
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1636]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from SP 16/339 (number 2). 'Description de tous les orders militaires ... 1636'. Broadside containing engraved representations of the insignia of all the military orders of knighthood which have been approved throughout Christendom, with the names, devices, collars and times of institution of each order, with the addition of the 'poeces of honour' which are carried at the obsequies of princes and lords. Underneath these engravings is printed a brief summary of the occasions which moved great kings and princes to institute the ordsers in question. Printed by J Boisseau and Alexander de Mewes.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- MPM 1
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Charles I, vol. X, ed. J Bruce (London, 1867) p. 254
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11063320/
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