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MAYORS MILITARY PAPERS

Catalogue reference: ZM/MP

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Reference
ZM/MP
Title
MAYORS MILITARY PAPERS
Description

These papers relate mainly to the activities of the Mayor and other city officials in mustering, provisioning and arranging the transportation of soldiers to Ireland. They include letters, accounts, receipts, lists of ships and muster rolls of soldiers from most English and Welsh counties.

The series of Mayors Letters (ML) also includes documents relating to military matters and there are cross references to these in the lists of Mayors Military Papers.

The papers are divided into eighteen bundles, as follows:

MMP/1/1-8 1550

MMP/2/1-11 1573

MMP/3/1-83 1577-82

MMP/4/1-17 1584-86

MMP/5/1-20 1586-90

MMP/6/1-11 1593

MMP/7/1-38 1596

MMP/8/1-150 1584, 1595-97

MMP/9/1-9 1598

MMP/10/1-20 1599-1600

MMP/11/1-14 1600-01

MMP/12/1-47 1600-01

MMP/13 1602

MMP/14 1608

MMP/15/1-6 1607-11

MMP/16/1-22 1616

MMP/17 1643

MMP/18 1679

Held by
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/be82cde0-913c-44f2-8b95-ca40d0895c97/

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MAYORS MILITARY PAPERS