Catalogue description The ARMY.

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Title: The ARMY.
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Certificate of the horsemen, footmen, and kearne in her Majesty's pay in Ireland, 1595.

 

Under the chief officers, 230 horse, 90 foot. Companies of horsemen, 427 ; supplied out of England in August 1595, 100 horse ; one company erected in April 1596. "Old companies [of foot] with new erections," 1,450. Bryttaine companies, 1,500 foot. Companies of foot sent out of England, 1,000. Kearne, 158.

 

Total, 657 horse, 4,040 foot. In all, 4,855.

 

Signed by Sir Ralph Lane, muster-master.

 

The names of the officers and captains are mentioned. At the end there are lists of the companies received from England in August 1595, and in October and November 1596.

 

Copy.
Date: 1595
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 612, p. 51
Language: English
Physical description: 5 Pages.
Unpublished finding aids:

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 177.

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