Guns and Government. The Ordnance Office under the later Stuarts
Details:
- Author(s) Tomlinson, Howard C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 268pp
- Publisher Royal Historical Society
- Place Published London
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- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work dealing with the administrative history of the Ordnance Office, c1660-c1714 - 'essentially a home [ie England] based] account of the personnel and organisation of the later Stuart Ordnance Office - origins prior to 1660; the department on the context of central government administration; office holders including background, duties, methods of appointment, etc; contracting system, storage, distribution; finance administration of Office. Draws on doctoral thesis 'Organisation and Activities of the English Ordnance Office, 1660-1714', Reading University, 1975