HISTORY OF THE DORSET MILITIA FROM ITS ORIGINS UP TO THE END OF THE GEORGIAN PERIOD Ian Gosling, Chair of Dorchester Civic Society SAXON TIMES TO THE REFORMATION. The obligation to bear arms when required by the authorities under whom you lived can be traced back at least to Anglo-Saxon times and it continued in … Continue reading HISTORY OF THE DORSET MILITIA FROM ITS ORIGINS UP TO THE END OF THE GEORGIAN PERIOD