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Series
Ordnance Office: Vouchers for Agents' Disbursements, Artillery
Catalogue reference: WO 18
What's it about?
WO 18
These are bound volumes of original warrants of the Ordnance Office to its agents for payments on accounts of pensions, recruiting, hospitals, soldiers' effects and other charges, together with the original receipts, certificates of existence,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ordnance Office: Vouchers for Agents' Disbursements, Artillery
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1770-1820
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Description (What the record is about)
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These are bound volumes of original warrants of the Ordnance Office to its agents for payments on accounts of pensions, recruiting, hospitals, soldiers' effects and other charges, together with the original receipts, certificates of existence, letters petitioning for allowance, etc.
Includes material which would otherwise be found amongst the Records of the Ordnance Office and its successors at the War Office (WO).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Ordnance Office, 1683-1855
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 214 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14229/
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