SP 28/131/4

Account book listing dragoon and draught horses and equipment subscribed for the Earl of Essex's parliamentary army under the system known as the Propositions. This is a fair copy compiled by the commissaries John Smith and Thomas Richardson from several original accounts that no longer survive. This copy was submitted to the Committee for Taking Accounts of the Whole Kingdom on 26 April 1644.

A contemporary note on f.1r states that most of the horses were listed in the counties by deputy lieutenants and then sent up to London along with the lists. Many of these original lists have been silently merged into the main account and can only be deduced from clusters of place names, but some are clearly separated and the local commissaries identified:

• Mayor of Colchester, Essex, 1 November 1642, starts f.8r
• Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, Lincolnshire, 7 November 1642, starts f.20v
• Suffolk, November 1642, starts f.35r
• Daniel Marvell and John Gray in Watford, Hertfordshire, November 1642, starts f.43r

Most of these horses came with no riders and very little equipment. At best the entries give:

• subscriber's name, address and occupation or status
• a description of the horse
• a list of equipment
• the value of the horse and equipment

Many entries omit some of these details. Sometimes wagons are carts are listed with horses, or separately.

Folio 53r gives the total number of horses listed in the book as 2,488.

The manuscript includes an original index of people which has not been included in these transcripts.

This Volume currently contains 19 pages.

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SP 28/131/4 f.1r Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.1v Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.2r Annotate	Created page
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SP 28/131/4 f.3r Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.3v Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.4r Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.4v Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.5r Annotate	Created page
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SP 28/131/4 f.6r Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.6v Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.7r Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.7v Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.8r Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.8v Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.9r Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.9v Annotate	Created page
SP 28/131/4 f.10r Annotate	Transcribed; requires image