Docketed.
Acquired as part of a collection accessioned as MA 3840.
The order is housed with 31 additional items related to the muster order and one French manuscript that appears to be unrelated.
Housed with a manuscript, in French, listing eleven facts that prove that the Dutch are the enemies of the English, with a note, in English and in a different hand, "This Sheet was sent from some parts beyond Seas, without any date of time, or place, or name to it, enclosed in an Outside Cover, directed in French to the Speaker of the House of Commons & delivered to him in the Winter 1710-11."
Being an order from the King issued by the Lords of the Council to the Earl of Northampton to muster 500 men from Warwickshire and 1,500 men from Gloucestershire and being acquired with 8 Orders to Muster to local Constables dated May 1640, signed by Major John Rogerson and others, 13 Orders to Muster to local Constables dated September 1640, signed by Major John Rogerson and others, 7 Muster Rolls from various wards and 2 itemized lists of charges and requests for payment; including copies of signatures of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lords of the Council on the Order from the King to the Earl of Northampton.