Order books and Treasurers' Accounts
The Order Books of the courts of Quarter Sessions and the accounts of County Treasurers listed the recipients of military welfare, usually giving their name, the amount received and the date of payment. Sometimes the recipient’s home locality was also noted. The petitions and certificates submitted by claimants were often endorsed with a note of the payment the claimant was to receive if they were successful. Civil War Petitions contains the records of these payments. Some received regular pensions every quarter throughout the year, but others were given a one-off gratuity and ordered never to return.
John Balshaw's Jigge: Singing, Star-Crossed Lovers and Signing a Civil War Petition
'Meamed and Lamed': Approaching Civil War Petitions through the Lens of Disability History
‘Lost and impoverished for ever’: The effect of the Civil Wars on Local Communities as seen through Civil War Petitions
Civilian Suffering in the Civil War: the case of Tysoe in Warwickshire
'Battle-Scarred': The Civil War Petitions Summer School
The Persistent Petitioner: Mary Burden, Oliver Cromwell and the Wiltshire Justices of the Peace
‘The hungry jaws of want’ – Basing House and the Maw of War
'The endeavours of your servants': Oliver Cromwell, Military Welfare and Civil War Petitions
A Vengeful Vicar and a Martyred Mother: The Petition of James Bamlett
