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4. . The War Office: only properly established in 1704
Responsible for day-to-day administration of the army,
. The Board of Ordnance: created in 1597
Responsible for the supply of weapons and ammunition, would later
administer the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers
. The Commissariat Department: although only
officially established in 1793, origins in the Civil War
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6. TNA: ‘the other records’
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Principal sources
Initially ‘State ‘Papers Online’ (for the whole period up to the death of
Queen Anne in 1714)
and
‘State ‘Papers Colonial’ (ending in 1735)
WO 55 ‘Entry Books of Orders and Warrants in Council’ (which actually
date from 1568)
WO 24 ‘Military establishments’ (from 1661, covers: guards, garrisons and
land forces).
WO 25 ‘Commissioning Books’ (registers date from 1660)
WO 26 ‘’Entry Books & Warrants’ (from 1670 onwards)
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SP 8 ‘King William’s Chest’ SP 8/7/170
Really a key series for the earlier period
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WO 4 ‘Secretary at War, military out-letters’ (dating from 1684)
WO 5 ‘Marching Orders’ (which date from 1683)
‘Ordnance Office’
WO 44 Original correspondence (from 1682)
WO 47 Entry books and minutes, reports and orders (from 1644)
10. E 101 ‘King’s Remembrancer’ (army) accounts various (to c1858)
E 134 ‘Depositions taken by the Commission ‘
Includes the financial effects of quartering troops on the local community
(1650-1680)
CO 5 ‘America and West Indies, original correspondence’ (from 1606)
SP 78 ‘State Papers France’: (dating from 1577)
SP 87 ‘State Papers Foreign: Military Expeditions’ (dating from 1695)
WO 30 ‘Miscellaneous Papers’ (dating from 1684)
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18. • “War is no longer an accident but a trade, and they that will be
anything in it must serve a long apprenticeship to it…Human wit
and industry has raised it to such a perfection, it requires people
to make it their whole employment”
• [Daniel Defoe], ‘A Brief Reply to the History of Standing armies
in England’, (1698).
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