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These are transcriptions of period documents that can be used to recreate period paperwork. Changing a name, location and date results in a personalised, accurate document to support your persona.

1. Military Documents:
   • Clothes issued to soldiers in Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth I.
   • Hertford's Commission as a Lt. Gen, 1642.
   • Hopton's Commission as a colonel of foot, 1648.
   • Naming the Honourable Artillery Company. A table of diferent names used in period.
   • Regulations of the Honourable Artillery Company, 1659.
   • Sample Muster Certificates to use as models.
   • Souldiers Oath to be sworn on entering service.
   • Triumph for Prince Charles at Norwich, 1623.
2. Civil Documents:
   • Apprenticeship Indentures, 1638 & 1642 for a musician/barber. Apparently being a musician alone was not enough to pay the bills.
   • A certificate of homage and fealty on Billinge Hill, 1429. Another early document but familiar language.
   • Charter of Cambridge University Press from Henry VIII.
   • Charter of the Drapers of London, 1438.
   • Country Man's House and Estate, from two different sources 1618 & 1635.
   • Household Staff of the Duke of Northumberland in the 16th C.
   • How to choose a wet-nurse or a midwife, 1612.
   • Licence to crenelate issued in 1281.
   • Licence to teach issued in 1599.
   • Most Common Names in England from 1600 - 1630.
   • Persons in the Book Trade in Norwich before 1650. Biographical entries from period records.
   • Stationers Company Charter Granted by Philip and Mary and confirmed by Elizabeth I.
   • Typical Household Possessions in 1622 from a list provided to potential settlers for Virginia.
   • Will of Thomas Herries of Norwich, 1599. Quite a contrast to the possessions of the settlers for Virginia above.
3. Documents hosted by me on another server (use BACK button to return to this page):
   • Norwich in 1616 - From Speed's Atlas
   • Norwich in 1588 - Manuscript painting.
   • Finding Norwich - small maps from a printed book of the early 17thC.
4. Images from my Late Period Image Gallery hosted by me on another server (use BACK button to return to this page):
   • Maps photographed by Mr. Jim Siebold
     • Cambridgeshire, John Speed, 1611.
     • Lancashire, John Speed, 1611.
   • From Fragments of Ancient Shipwrighting by Matthew Baker 16thC.:
     • Shipwrights drafting plans (includes a detailed depiction of a working table)
     • The construction of a ship (the fish picture)
   • Drawing of a Spanish Frigate designed to carry tresure from the West Indies to Spain.
5. Documents On Other Websites (via the links page.)

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