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John Price's son apprenticed from Baker, Billing and Crow School, 1844. PA26/9 fol.113.
Correspondence about defence of the city and the realm against the Jacobites, 1745. PA36/3.
Drummer Eburne (of Allesley?), late seventeenth century. PA47/52/2.
Major G.B. Sandham of Norton, Worcestershire was a trustee of F.W.G. Greswolde-Williams' estate, 1909. PA67/44,47,69.
Lieutenant-Colonel W.H. Parker a trustee likewise, 1885. PA73/2.
Use of rifle-range by Rugby Rifle Volunteer Co., 1861. PA101/2/57.
Major Higginson of Stratford, floruit early nineteenth century, mentioned. PA101/2/104.
Richard Poulteney of Foleshill a soldier, early nineteenth century. PA101/2/128.
James Maitland (of General Evans' Regiment of Horse) mortgagee for Spon Street house, 1738: PA101/4/8.
Captain Robert Bunney benefited under his uncle William's will, 1822. PA101/7/8.
Note to will of William Barton about enlistment in Warwickshire Militia, 1815. PA101/8/240.
Birth-certificate needed to qualify for Royal Engineers examination, 1869. PA101/8/381.
Colonel L.G. Pearson and Captain N.C. Livingstone-Learmouth concerned with Wyken Grange Farm, 1921-34: PA101/8/686.V-688 passim.
Colonel Ewart occupied a Ram Bridge messuage, 1844. PA101/8/804.
Bequest to Brigadier-Major R.H. Macquoid (5th. Regiment, Hyderabad Contingent), 1869: PA101/8/861.
John Horsfall of Royal East Middlesex Militia had claim upon Hill Street premises, 1810. PA101/9/17-18.
Joseph Charley a sergeant of the Oxford Regment of Militia and mortgagee for Hill Street premises, 1814-15. PA101/9/22-24.
Major Shuckburgh acted for the infant Sir S.F.D. Shuckburgh, baronet concerning the Shuckburgh estate, Warwickshire, 1893-94. PA101/11/347-356 passim.
Testamentary papers, etc, for George Ryley of Coventry, Captain in 74th. Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, 1848-74. PA101/11/679-757.
W.H. Wilkinson, Major in West Yorkshire Militia, an Indian Army officer's executor, 1873: PA101/11/682,683.
Colonels Wallace and Phillips interested in Colonel Ryley's estate, 1876. PA101/11/722,723.
Reference to share-certificate for Army and Navy Hotel, 1884. PA101/11/783,795,807.
Colonel Mellor's wife benefited under Doctor Mellor's draft will, 1843. PA101/11/999.
Wife of Major Edward Gunter, East Lancashire Regiment, benefited under her father's draft will, 1882: PA101/12/9.
Colonel Wyley held Dale Street premises, 1905ff. PA101/12/370,375.
Coventry shagmanufacturer owed William Griffin of London, army-clothier, £100, 1817-22. PA202/1/26.XX,35.XVIII.
Henry Watts, Corporal in East Middlesex Militia, had share in Bastille House, Coventry, 1809ff: PA202/3/1.XXXVIII-XXXII,2.III.
Joseph Miles of Royal East Middlesex Militia benefited under father's will, 1814. PA202/11/3.
Wife of Charles Newman of Royal East Middlesex Militia benefited under the above will, 1814: PA202/11/3.
Brigadier-General A.L. Layard acted as an executor of the Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, 1815. PA202/25/1.XXVII.
Major-General Edward Morrison acted as a trustee of Honourable Henry Windsor's marriage-settlement, 1798 - 1838. PA202/3.XXIII-XLII passim.
Early-nineteenth century transcript of Foleshill survey (1774), made for General Hopkins. PA207/1/1.
Reference to General Hopkins' Great Heath property, 1826. PA221/2/18-19.
Wife of C.S.L. Teale, Lieutenant, 4th. Regiment of Foot, had claim upon Joseph Newcombe's estate, 1837, as did George Ryley, Ensign in 74th. Regiment of Native Infantry, East India Company. PA221/3/84.
Lieutenant-General Stewart tenanted "The Firs", Kenilworth, 1848. PA242/11/29.
Billetting order, 1849. PA283/1.
General Jenkins owned land at Allesley, 1882-95. PA295/5/13; PA295/6/2.
John Taylor of Porchet and Cotsall, Staffordshire intermittently in army, according to settlement-examination, 1750. PA295/33/17.
William Taylor successively of Corley (Warwickshire), Allesley and the army, according to settlement-examination, 1795. PA295/33/64.
John Hawkesford successively of Corley, Corley Moor (Warwickshire), the army, Lea Marston, Arley and Astley (all Warwickshire), according to settlement-examination, 1813. PA295/33/76.
Quarter Sessions Order for militiaman's family's relief, 1782. PA295/53/1.
Jeweller's bill to Captain William Lee, Queen's Light Dragoons, 1793. PA300/1 fols.12,13.
Home Guard personnel records, 1940-44. PA307.
Claim of John Hanbey, trooper in General Wade's Regiment of Horse, upon Market Place, Coventry premises, 1773. PA309/68,71,72.
Captain H.T. Jackson's ideas about Coventry's redevelopment, 1944. PA313/129/1,2.
Captain H.T. Thurston, Secretary of Coventry Cathedral Reconstruction Committee, 1948: PA313/347/5.
General Hopkins owned Rye Hill meadow, Allesley, 1832. PA315/16.
Sale-catalogue for General Birch-Reynardson's Pinley, Allesley, Bramcote and Knowle (Warwickshire) farms, 1847. PA315/27.
Military barracks mentioned as having been built on site of "Bull" inn, 1827. PA328/17.
Discharge-certificate of Joseph Beck, 24th. Foot, 1815. PA341/1.
Photograph of territorial entertainment, World War I. PA343/18/1.
Photograph of Coventry Fortress Co., 1915. PA343/18/3.
Photograph of Colonel Wyley as Leofric, 1919. PA343/19/1.
Interest of Captain S.D. Turner of Indian Army in Leamington Spa and Coventry premises, 1865-68. PA346/76.
Charles Smith of Ongar, Essex, artillery-officer, a trustee for Fleet Street, Coventry premises, 1786-96. PA353/1/23.
Colonel Capel Cave of Fulham, Middlesex was mortgagee for Exhall Manor Farm and Hampshire land, c.1885. PA353/6.
Testamentary papers, etc., of G.F. Dobbs, North Staffordshire Regiment, 1943-44. PA353/17/4-8,35-46 passim.
Army (and Air Force) use of Manor House, Leamington Road, Styvechale, 1939-44. PA353/48.
Valuation of Major-General Hopkins' estate in Warwickshire and Coventry, 1807. PA362/9/1.
Colour-Sergeant Regan's son considered for entry to Katherine Bayley's School, 1871. PA368/15/382.
Active Service Volunteers photographs (1901) and registration-certificates, etc., 1915-18. PA398.
Home Guard records, 1940-44. PA430.
Recitals of 1885 marriage-settlement of Honourable C.S. Irby, Captain, 7th. Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. PA242/3/3.XIII: PA451/2.XIII.
Lieutenant-Colonel E.E. Kenny's interest in Charterhouse estate, 1837ff. PA242/2/1.XVIII,38.
Captain Edward Coxwell's wife benefited under Edward Inge's will, 1794. PA242/2/8.
William Andrews in Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers, 1860. PA119/1.
Socialist attitude towards armies, 1910. PA135/1.
Warrant appointing H.F. Minster assistant surgeon to the forces, 1835. PA140/1.
Payments by Saint Michael's Parish Vestry to the Militia of Coventry, 1779-82. in PA143/17.
Minutes of the Guardians of the Poor for the United Parishes of Saint Michael and Holy Trinity, 1801-06. PA144.
Letter about the heraldry of Coventry military men tempore Napoleonic War, 1915. PA159/1/60.
Documents about defence of Coventry and Warwickshire, 1794-97. PA165.
Book of Reminiscences, W.H. Masters, 1951. PA169/1.
Lists of names of officers quartered in Coventry, c.1858-60. PA180/20/1-4.
Lieutenant-General Edward Morrison of Bath a Northamptonshire gentleman's executor, 1806-17. PA171/14/1-2.
Reminiscences by E.J. Pollard (not himself a soldier) about late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. PA182.
Reminiscences, 1756-57, recorded in newspaper, c.1870. PA919/36/51.
Commissions - as ensign, lieutenant, captain and major - in Warwickshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1860-67. PA402/4.
Commissions and letters regarding J.H. and A. Caldicott, 1909-22. PA402/9,10.
Order of service for officers of King's African Corps killed in East Africa in World War I, 1922. in PA402/11.
Programme for service of dedication of tablets to memory of those killed in World War I from 7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1922: PA402/23.
Photographs of Alan Caldicott of King's African Corps, 1914-1916. PA402/26.
Local Defence Volunteer Corps circular, 1940. PA456/1.
Quittance-notice for General Hopkins, 1831. PA14/5/42.
Inland Revenue examination of ex-mayor about militia-account, c.1811. PA14/6/79.
Allegation about not declaring militia-money, 1816. PA14/6/80.
Soldier's wife's plea for money, 1812. PA14/6/171.
Band provided for mayor-making, 1826. PA14/7/14.
Militia exercises notice, 1812. PA14/8/15.
Herbert Westfaling appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire, 1728. PA14/15/6.
Army officer in debt, 1757. PA17/41.
Soldiers' part in overseeing general (1832) and bye-(1833) elections. PA17/76/26,27,33,36.XIII.
Muster correspondence, 1588 - 1642. PA17/82.
Captain James Birch invited to mayoral choice-feast, 1770. PA17/110/7.
Samuel Clarke's petition about Coundon land tempore Charles II. PA16/2 fol.34 recto-verso.
Captain Ross occupied Little Park Street house, 1830. PA23/1.
Certificate of Musters, 1522. PA24/1
Valuation of General Hopkins' Buckinghamshire estate, 1800. PA279/1/1.
General Hopkins' Bishopgate Green land, 1827-39. PA279/2/6,7.
General Hopkins' Shortley land, 1825-40. PA279/3/4,5,17,25.
General Hopkins' Foleshill land, 1805-39. PA279/4/9-11,15-18,27.
General Hopkins' Allesley land, 1802-42. PA279/5/1,3,10,11,27.
General Hopkins' Barston, Warwickshire land, 1831-41. PA279/6/7,9; PA279/10/36 fol.1.
General Hopkins' Earl Street, Coventry property, 1824. PA279/7/1.
General Hopkins' land near Wyken Colliery, 1811-43. PA279/8/3,17.
Captain C.D. Millar's leadership of Keresley & Coundon Piggeries Association, 1918-19:
PA279/10/1338; PA279/44/12402, 12407, 12432, 12437-12439, 12451, 12460, 12461, 12463, 12525, 12527, 12529, 12576, 12583, 12634, 12738, 12765, 12770.
Captain C.D. Millar's chairmanship of Exhall Colliery Co., 1909-19. PA279/44/9409,9410,10380,10560,10722,12734.
Army expected to quell strikes, 1919. PA279/10/1346 fol.40.
Barrack sergeant interested in Bishopgate Green land, 1885. PA279/44/2647.
Major F. Hood-Gregory's interest in Folly Lane telegraph poles (?), 1896. PA279/44/6213.
Captain Boteler's wish to hold Bath & Western & Southern Counties Show at Coventry, 1902. PA279/44/7814.
Major C.A.T. Boultbee held Barston manor, Warwickshire copyholds, 1904: PA279/44/8408,8413,8552,8584.
Major S.G. Everett owned Knowle Hall, Warwickshire, 1909. PA279/44/9607.
Colonel F.H. Embury interested in George Street land for artillery brigade headquarters, 1910. PA279/44/9892,9900.
Major L.P. Irby a trustee of Honourable C.S. Irby's marriage-settlement, 1913. PA279/44/11542.
C.E. Irby's early military career, 1915-19. PA279/44/12026,12146,12172,12279,12441.
G.N. Irby's military movements, 1916-17. PA279/44/12107,12279.
John Horsfall in Royal East Middlesex Militia, 1810. PA184/4/1.
Lieutenant-Colonel H.W. Adams a Pinley House mortgagee, 1843-46. PA216/1/24-28 passim.
Letter to mayor of Coventry about recruitment, 1710. PA248/3.
Soldiers perceived as involved in election-riot, 1737. PA248/6/58.
Captain Robert Hill presented at royal court, 1805. PA257/4/12.
Royal Warwickshire men swimming in Coventry baths, 1915. PA258/2.
Inventories of city armour and ammunition, 1589 - 1646. BA/A/F/8/1-8.
Vouchers concerning armour and ammunition, 1615 - 1763. BA/A/F/8/9-16.
General Edward Morrison a trustee of the Earl of Plymouth's marriage-settlement, 1798 - 1838: BA/A/G/2/14.
Guardsman's interest in Earl Street messuages, 1825-28. BA/A/G/2/9-12.
Lieutenant-Colonel F.O. Sargeant executor of his father, 1869-89. BA/A/G/5/37,40.
Attorney's bill, c.1640. in BA/A/G/1/8-10.
Harness ordered from the Whittawers' Company, c.1557. BA/C/P/1/1.
Samuel Clarke held Coundon moathouse, 1654-56. BA/D/A/19/6,7.
Lieutenant-General Richard Hopkins had Pinley estate tithes, 1799 - 1846. BA/D/A/47,14,45 passim.
Colonel E.E. Kenny a trustee for Pinley land, 1834-40. BA/D/A/47/20,21,24,25.
Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Stopford, early nineteenth century. BA/D/A/47/22.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Birch (Reynardson) had Warwickshire, Lincolnshire and Staffordshire land, 1804-47: BA/D/A/47/30,45.XLII,XLV,XLVI.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Birch Reynardson interested in Whitley land, 1848. BA/D/A/47/30.
Captain Richard Thompson Hopkins a trustee of a Whitley inn, 1849:
BA/D/A/47/32.45.XXX (memorandum),XXXII,XXXIII.
Honourable A.N. Hood (sometime captain and general) interested in Whitley land, 1840s. BA/D/A/47/27,28,30 et passim.
Captain Malet a trustee of Viscount Hood's Whitley land, 1859-66. BA/D/A/47/37,40.
Colonel Thomas Goodriche benefited under Richard Hopkins' 1782 will. BA/D/A/47/45.I.
Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Northey a trustee of Whitley land, 1823-31. BA/D/A/47/45.XVI-XVIII.
Colonel Sir Henry Webster a mortgage-assignee for Shortley land, 1845-48. BA/D/A/47/45.XXV-XXXI passim.
General Sir James Craig, floruit 1804. BA/D/A/47/45.XLII.
Major Beake had Coundon land, 1663. BA/D/BE/8/2.
Impressment, 1744-58. BA/E/B/81/1.
List of deserters, c.1836. BA/E/B/82/1.
Prisonsrs discharged to serve in forces, early eighteenth century. BA/E/B/131/1,2.
Skinners' Company had butts at Whitley, 1468.BA/F/J/1/1.
Mayor's responsibilities, 1569 - 1685. BA/H/C/9; BA/H/C/10.
Dragoons in Coventry, 1826. PA14/7/14: BA/H/D/7/1.
Eighteenth century militia, borough archive fonds. BA/H/I/22,23.
Sixteenth century defence, borough archive fonds. BA/H/J.
Seventeenth century defence, borough archive fonds. BA/H/K.
Eighteenth to nineteenth centuries defence, borough archive fonds.BA/H/L.
City armed men for Hundred Years' War, 1346. BA/H/M/5/1.
City armed men for French War [,1512(?)-14]. BA/H/Q/A79/25,26.
City armed men for Scots War, 1639-40. BA/H/Q/A79/39-42.
Muster-commission, c.1522. BA/H/Q/A79/56,57.
Muster-correspondence, 1590. BA/H/Q/A79/71.
Warwickshire lieutenancy-commission, 1587. BA/H/Q/A79/73.
Muster-contributions, 1585-91. BA/H/Q/A79/74-76.
Coventry to join in Warwickshire muster, 1595. BA/H/Q/A79/78.
Coventry to join in Warwickshire muster, 1597. BA/H/Q/A79/83-86.
Coventry men to train in Warwickshire, 1616. BA/H/Q/A79/117.
Muster-correspondence, 1617-19. BA/H/Q/A79/121-126.
Munitions-correspondence, 1623-24. BA/H/Q/A79/135,136.
Muster-correspondence, 1625. BA/H/Q/A79/141A,141B,145.
Artillery grounds to continue, 1628. BA/H/Q/A79/148B.
Sampson Hopkins preferred as trained-band captain, 1634. BA/H/Q/A79/152.
Muster-correspondence, 1637-61:
BA/H/Q/A79/161, 163, 164A, 164B, 165, 166B, 168, 171, 172, 174, 178-185, 187A, 187B, 188, 189, 191-196, 199-202.
Cuirassiers, 1639. BA/H/Q/A79/172,173,182.
Bond for delivery of city arms to mayor, 1642. BA/H/Q/A79/205C.
Muster-correspondence, 1647-48. BA/H/Q/A79/212,213.
Muster-correspondence, 1662. BA/H/Q/A79/247.
Colonel Asher interested in Hawkesbury coalmines, 1673. BA/H/Q/A79/275.
In specimens of corporation business, 1588 - 1772. BA/H/Q/F8/1.
Impressment, c.1640. BA/H/Q/F8/9/51.
Clifford Chambers, Warwickshire defence, 1672. BA/H/Q/F8/9/52,53.
Recruitment, 1756-57. BA/H/Q/F20/7/19,20.
Cuirassiers, 1638. BA/H/Q/F20/8/6.
Muster-correspondence, 1639-40. BA/L/A/1/1-3.
Muster-accounts, 1639-40. BA/M/B/1/1-3.
Soldier's widow received money, 1654. BA/M/E/19/1.
Photographs of Royal Warwickshire Regiment's freedom of entry, c.1946. BA/N/P/1.
Home Guard (12th. Warwickshire Battalion "A" Company), 1941-46. PA403/117-123.
Captain George Pickard's interest in New Buildings premises, 1814. PA403/140/5.
Colonel Thomason, Hill House, Berkswell, Warwickshire, 1928-30. PA438/34.
Major C. Wheatley, Berkswell Hall, 1929-31. PA438/43.
Major Dick, Broomhill Farm, Stretton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, 1932-33. PA438/51.
Colonel William Bromley Davenport's interest in site of 12, Kimberley Road, Baginton, Warwickshire, 1918. PA466/4/5 fol.209.
Colonel W.F. Wyley sold site of Strathmore Avenue estate to War Department, 1919:
PA466/5/1 p.56; PA466/7/1 fol.118; PA466/7/2 fol.363; PA466/8/1 fol.282.
Colonel W.F. Wyley acted as a Coventry Union Banking Co. trustee, 1890. PA466/5/5 pp.31,130.
Colonel W.F. Wyley was mortgagee for 75, Broadway, 1937. PA466/7/1 fol.67.
Lieutenant-Colonel F.J.B. Wingfield-Digby sold Water Orton, Warwickshire land, 1929. PA466/8/1 fol.494.
Colonel W.F. Wyley helped dissolve Coventry Bank, 1889. PA466/16/2.
Photograph of a platoon, 1941. PA424/4/18.
Home Guard had used Coventry Museum basement, 1945. PA434/226.
Derbyshire militia moved from Coventry to Daventry, 1778. PA469.
Troopers' horses damaged land, 1739. PA54/80/2 fol.25.
Lieutenant William Lory had a large family, 1842. PA54/268/1.
Colonel Cheney had Gaddesby, Leicestershire land, 1838. PA54/302.
Verses were dedicated to rifle volunteers, 1860-61. PA506/235/17,18,20-23,25.
Welsh regmental colours kept at Saint Mary's, Warwick, 1936. PA515/8/2/17,18.
Ticket for lecture about Red Army [,1948]. PA515/53/2.
Army Benevolent Fund ball-invitation, 1946. PA515/54/9.
Private Gardner, discharge-certificate, 1807. PA518/1/1.
Volunteers were encamped at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, 1873. PA526/11/20.
Soldiers played cricket on Stoke Green, early 1870s. PA526/11/34.
Volunteer exhibition, Brighton, 1861. PA526/139/5.
Services Benefit Fund, 1945. PA540/12/318.
Douglas Haig Memorial Homes appeal, 1928. PA540/12/116.
Mutiny en route to Crimea, 1855. PA554.
Captain John Lee's interest in Derby Lane property, 1806. PA563/11.
Major David Elson was involved with Reform Club, 1957. PA573/17/24.
W.F. Wyley's commissions, 1872 - 1915. PA581/1.
East Middlesex militiaman's son was apprenticed, 1813. PA592/3.
General Sir H.C.L. Holden was a B.S.A. group director, 1929-33. PA594/2/1/2/11.
King's National Roll, 1929-34. PA594/3/1/9.
Royal Warwickshire Regiment rifle-shoot programme, 1930. in PA594/5/1/13/1.
Alexandra Musical Society entertained wounded ex-servicemen, 1932. in PA594/5/1/13/1.
Army Transport Comforts Fund, 1940. in PA594/5/1/13/3.
Daimler Home Guard drivers, 1941. in PA594/6/1/10.
Captain C.D. Millar promoted a folding car-roof, 1927. in PA594/13/1/1.
Captain Guy Pelham-Clinton of Hooper & Co. (Coachbuilders) Ltd., 1925-33. PA594/15/1/5/2.
Major J.H. Hewitt of Stratton-Instaone and the Star Motor Co., 1929-34. PA594/17/1/2.
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