The certificate for Hugh Giles of King’s Sutton, Northamptonshire, 6 May 1668

Maye the 6th [16]68

Wee whose names are her subscribed Doe sertify your Worships that Huge Giles of our towne of Kingsutton was a souldier in the kings Army at banbury Castell under the lord of Northampton and he was listed the [illegible] tusday after Eghill fighte and soe did continue tell the warres ware Ended and by reson there of he is very much impoverished therefore we desire that he may haue his pension as formorely he did haue

Georg Toms

Francis [?Haines]

Will[iam] Cottesford                                                       Thomas Pen

Tho[mas] Tayler                                                                                Robert Jennings

Edmond Williams [symbol: mark] his marke         Thomas Toms

John Waters                                                                       George Tomes and

Thomas Wiatt                                                                    William Parrish

John Pargeter                                                                    overseers

John Haynes                                                                       John Whittaker

Edward Tomes                                                                  Thomas Henas

Robert Jeninges                                                                William Kerby

Thomas Twinkles                                                              Robert Bricknell

John Maulle                                                                        [illegible]

Antony Toms                                                                     Richard Williams

Key Facts

Date of certificate

6 May 1668

Name of petitioner

Hugh Giles

Type of petitioner

Maimed Soldier

Declared allegiance

Royalist

Injuries sustained;
ailments experienced

No known injuries or ailments

Authority petitioned

  • Quarter Sessions
    County of Northamptonshire (exact location undefined/uncertain)

Outcome of petition

  • Unknown

Petition signature

Signature

Further information in this certificate

Events mentioned

  • Battle of Edgehill, 23 October 1642

Places mentioned

  • Banbury Castle (Banbury Parish), Oxfordshire

People mentioned

Archive information

Location

Northamptonshire Archives

Shelf mark

QSR 1/50, fol. 83