Payment to Joseph Smith

Payment details

Gratuity

No gratuity

Pension

£6.13s.4d.

Pension frequency

Annual

Notes

Fol. 23: Upon a certificate from Lord Fairfax, Lieutenant-General Cromwell, Major-General Skippon and Commissary-General Ireton that Captain Joseph Smith was ‘seuerall tymes wounded in ye p[ar]liam[en]ts seruice & thereby Rendred vncapable of any further seruices’. The generals recommended Smith for a pension in respect of this and as ‘hee & his father haueing susteyned greate losse by the enemy’. The court awarded him £6 13 s. 4 d. from the stock for the hundreds of Osulstone, Edmonton and Gore, who had previously refused him a pension.

Record of payment

Middlesex and Westminster Quarter Sessions, Hicks Hall, 11 April 1649

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

Described occupation

Occupation unknown

Place of residence

Marlborough, Wiltshire