PREFACE, Introduction, and Prospectus to a proposed work on Military Science and Tactics, based on the Prussian system. The author speaks of himself as having had " a service of many years in varied situations, of much regimental practice, and of five campaigns in the war of 1756 "; he attended ...
" NAMES [with other particulars] of the Nobility and others reteyned to serve the Kings of England in their warrs, from Ed[ward] the 3d to Hen. 8. Extracted out of [the Indentures of Military Service preserved in] the Office of Pells, by the industry of Sr William Le Neve, Knt., Clarentius King ...
RETURNS of the trained bands of Buckingham and Newport hundreds, co. Bucks; 1660-1662. Included also are:-(a) Copies of old levies in 1637 and 1638. ff. 1, 39;-(b) Warrants of Sir Richard Temple and Sir William Tyringham, Deputy-Lieutenants. ff. 10-12, 15, 24 ; - (c) Letter from John [Egerton] E...
" RULES, orders, and instructions for the future Government of the office of the Ordnance, Anno Regni 35 " [Chas II., 1683]; with additional regulations by James II., 4 Feb. 1685 [6]. At f. 40 is "an establishment of the Annuall Payments and Allowances to be made upon the Quarter Bookes of the o...
REGISTER of warrants, lists of officers and mon and of artillery, and instructions relating to the Ordnance department; 1693 [4]- 1714. Paper; ff. 75. In vellum cover, stamped with the arms of Qu. Anne. Folio. England; Ordnance Office: Warrants, lists of officers, etc., relating to: 1694-1714.
1. JOURNAL of the campaign of William III. in the Netherlands, 1692-3, by Lieut.-Col. Jacob Richards, of the field-train of artillery; beginning with his departure from Woolwich for Rotterdam, 26 May, 1692, and ending 29 July, 1693, and including accounts of the battles of Steenkirk and Landen, ...
" RULES, Orders and Instructions for the future Government of the office of the Ordnance (being another copy of No. 442), confirmed by his present Majesty, Febry 27th, 1761." Paper; ff. 48. In blue morocco binding, tooled. Folio. England; Ordnance Office: Rules, orders, etc., for: 1683, 1686. ...
" INSTRUCTIONS [by James II.] for the government of our office of the Ordnance in Ireland," with a list of the principal and inferior officers of the Artillery in Ireland ; 1685 [?]. Paper; ff. 28. In red morocco binding, with tooling. Small octavo. England; Ordnance Office: Instructions for, i...
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. 1. (ff. 12). " A Journal [of Jacob Richards] from London to Vienna, and so to Buda " ; 1 Nov. 1685 (O.S.)-21 June, 1686 (N.S.). Preceded by instructions from the Ordnance Office " to improve himselfe in Forreigne Parts beyond Seas, to be employ'd at his return as one o...
MILITARY COLLECTIONS of the three brothers Jacob, John, and Michael Richards, sons of Jacob Richards; 1685-1714. For the military careers of all three brothers, see the Dictionary of National Biography. Thirty-four volumes. Paper. Folio, etc.
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Army; England: Military collections of Jacob, John and Michael Richards: 1685-1714.