The certificate for Corporal Thomas de la Planch, Thomas Horton’s Regiment, 5 February 1649
These may Certifie all whom itt doth concern That Thomas de la Planch; hath serued as Corporall, in ye troope of Capt[ain] Edw[ard] Foley In ye Regiment of Col[one]l Jo[h]n Buttler; and since in ye same Regiment, comanded by Col[one]l Horton In ye troope of Capt[ain] Benia[min] Burges: from the begininge of ye new modell; vntill this p[re]sent day; dureinge w[hi]ch time he behaued himselfe very honestly and faithfully; and att ye leagure before Pembrooke, were shott in ye Right arme Att A sally forth of ye towne by ye enemy, att w[hi]ch time he behaued himselfe very gallantly; by w[hi]ch shott he hath lost ye vse of his arme to his vtter vndoeinge; Thus much is Certified this second of Febr[uary] 1648: the said Thomas de la planch being discharged
Be[nja]m[in] Burges
Febreu[ary] 5 1648
This souldier Thomas de la Planch by Reson of his wound is a mayned man hauing lost the p[er]fit vse of his Right Arm
George Dunn Surgeon