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Dorset (England) manuscript collection. -- 1796. -- 7 manuscripts.

The collection consists of seven inventories, compiled for each Dorset parish, of the number of farmers, livestock, amount and type of crops (dead stock), number of servants who can be mounted on horseback, number of servants who can be armed with pickaxes and shovels. The inventories were collected by Lord Milton's Corps of Yeomanry Calvary, the volunteer Dorset Rangers. It seems likely that the inventory was prepared in anticipation of a French invasion.

Title based on contents of the collection.
Collection (20-1995) was purchased from Ambra Books, 1991.
There are no access restrictions.
Finding aid available at the collection level only in hard copy and electronically.
No further accruals are expected.

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Last Reviewed: June 29, 2009
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