By law, a certain number of militiamen had to be recruited from among the able-bodied men in each parish.  Thus, lists of all those eligible had to be drawn up by the parish constable, and where these survive (between 1757 and 1831) they constitute a veritable census.  Along with the "Defense Lists"--the Posse Comitatus of 1798 and the Levee en Masse of 1803-04--and muster rolls of various militia regiments and local forces, these militia lists (in theory) are almost a complete census of the male population.  Militias were generally raised on a county basis, and most of these voluminous records are found today in the various county record offices.  The fourth edition of this important work is a guide to the location of all such records in the county record offices throughout Britain.

Militia Lists and Musters 1757-1876 : A Directory of Holdings in the British Isles

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