Civil War Petitions

Gratuity: No gratuity
Pension: £10.0s.0d.
Pension frequency: Annual
Notes: Fol. 27: At a General Sessions of the Peace held for Middlesex on 11 April 1648, the Lord General [Fairfax], Lieutenant-General Cromwell, Major-General Skippon and Commissary-General Ireton had attested to the court the good service done to the parliament by Captain Joseph Smith. In which service ‘he hath rec[eive]d greate damage & losse of his goods, div[er]se wounds & mehaimes, by reason whereof hee is altogether rendred vncapable of any further service & wholly disabled to make any p[ro]vision for himselfe’. They had recommended Smith for a pension and the court had granted him £6 13 s. 4 d. per annum from the stock for the hundreds of Osulstone, Edmonton and Gore, who had previously refused him a pension. At this sessions, Smith petitioned for an increased in his pension. The court was informed that the county stock had been augmented by the death or departure of former pensioners and took Smith’s ‘deplorable Condicion’ into their consideration, and so they granted him an additional £3 6 s. 8 d. per annum – a total of £10 per annum.
Record of payment: Middlesex and Westminster Quarter Sessions, Hicks Hall, 22 April 1650