Thurlow
Your document predates the English Civil wars 1642-1651 by a few years.
I don't know if it has much commercial value or not but it would be of
interest to historians in Hampshire, the hundreds mentioned are in that
county.
This document is about raising a militia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia#Sixteenth_and_seventeenth_centuries
England didn't have a regular army until some years after the civil war
ended, just small independent armies, ultimately under the king but
commanded by a local nobleman.
4th Duke of Lennox was a cousin to King Charles I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart,_1st_Duke_of_Richmond
Jerome 2nd Earl of Portland
http://www.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_589921/JEROME-EARL-PORTLAND.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Weston,_2nd_Earl_of_Portland
Lennox and Portland were jointly Lords Lieutenant of Hampshire (or is
it Lord Lietenants of Hampshire?) which is why they were charged with
raising a militia.
As wealthy Royalists they, and their families, would have worn a lot of
lace.
Brenda
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.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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