Four mid-eighteenth-century printed forms relating to English county militia: 'A Protection', 'Summons for Absentees or other Offenders', 'Mittimus on Refusal to Pay the Penalties', 'A Certificate of a Militia Man changing his Place of Abode'.
Publication details:
The 'Summons' dated '175[ ]' and therefore from the 1750s, the other three items dated '17[ ]' and so eighteenth century. Three of the four 'Printed by J. TOWERS, near Air-Street, Piccadilly.'
£225.00
SKU: 7531
All four items well printed on one side of a piece of watermarked laid paper. All four lightly-aged but good. None of them filled in. The third item more dusty than the rest. Item One (15.5 x 20.5 cm): Headed 'No. VII. A PROTECTION.' To be signed by one of the 'Deputy Lieutenant, | Captain, | Commanding Officer.' Exempting the bearer, as a militia man, 'from doing any Highway Duty, commonly called Statute Work'. He is 'not liable to serve as a Peace or Parish Office, nor to serve in any of his Majesty's Land or Sea Forces, unless he shall consent thereto.' Item Two (16.5 x 21.5 cm): Headed 'No. IX. Summons for Absentees or other Offenders. To the Constable or other Officer of [ ] in the said County.' Dated to the 1750s. To be signed by 'One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the said County.' Item Three (16.5 x 21.5): Headed 'No. X. Mittimus on Refusal to Pay the Penalties. | To the Constable or other Officer of the Peace of [ ] | And to the Keeper of the House of Correction at [ ] in the said County.' To be signed by a 'Justice of the Peace for the said County.' Printer not stated. Requiring that the individual be conveyed to a House of Correction and put to hard labour. Item Four (21.5 x 18.5 cm): Headed 'No. XII. A Certificate of a Militia Man changing his Place of Abode.' To be signed by 'One of his Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants for the said County of [ ]'.