muster roll
Britishnoun
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She sent him electronic copies of those items and he sent her copies of Smith’s widow’s pension claim and muster roll.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2014
Well aware are they cf the fact that their muster roll in the 72nd Congress will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text—surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head.
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The muster roll was sent in to Militia Headquarters, and the Company was formally gazetted on September 5th, 1855.
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by MacDonald, John A. (John Alexander)
In the absence of a complete census for the decades after 1624, it is very difficult to determine what proportion of the servants listed in the muster roll of that year subsequently became landowners.
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
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