The certificate for Richard Collings of King’s Sutton, Northamptonshire, Easter 1673
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Worthy Sirs These are to Certiffie your worships that Richard Collings, of our towne of King Sutton, did serue in the Kings seruice at Banbury Castle, & was A Corporall vnder Captaine Thomas Willoughby, & is Liueing & A very poor man, and doth beseech your worships that you would bee pleased to Consider of this his present bad Condicion occasioned by pouerty, desireing that hee might haue your Aid & Assistance, in the helpeing of him to his pension which hee hath Formerly had, Certiffied by vs whose names are vnder written.
<King Sutton>
William Cottosford gent[leman]
William Kerby
John Pargitter Constable
John Bett
John Whittaker
<a penc[i]on of 40 s. p[er] ann[um] is allowed ye petic[i]on[er].>