The lace-chat list is for any and all subjects. What a find. Please reply to the list if you have any knowledge, it sounds like an interesting thing to hear about. I can't help, history was a favorite subject at school until we reached the Corn Laws and then I just lost interest.
Maybe you should take it to an Antiques Road Show. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Thurlow Weed <[email protected]> wrote: From: Thurlow Weed <[email protected]> Subject: [lace-chat] English Civil War question To: "lace chat" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 7:02 PM Greetings to all spiders on this the first day of Spring! So why is it so much colder today than yesterday? :( I have a question highly off-topic, but there is such a wealth of knowledge here I'm hoping someone on the list is an English Civil War history buff or historian or have connexions thereunto and can provide some help. For many years I've had years a military draft (conscription) document signed and sealed by the James 4th Duke of Lennox and Jerome 2nd Earl of Portland, and is dated 12 December 1636. It commissions a man with "the charge and leadinge of all the able men from the age of sixteene to threescore furnished and unfurnished to be taken within the hundreds of Odiham and Crondall." It is a form letter, with all spaces completed with the name of the man commissioned, where to bring them, who is in charge, etc. My late father found this piece of paper folded up and stuck inside an old book in a second-hand bookseller's. I think he paid 25 cents for an uninteresting book just so he could get this interesting-looking "old document" stuck in its pages. I'm curious to know if such a thing would be considered a rare document, would this be something of significant interest to history buffs or historians, does it have any value, etc., as well as suggestions for preservation, if other than a good quality acid-free sleeve. Please respond privately. Thurlow Weed Lancaster, Ohio [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected].
