Payment details

Gratuity

£5.0s.0d.

Pension

No pension

Notes

Fol. 25: ‘Whereas upon a reference from the Kings most excellent Ma[jes]tie signified unto the Justices of peace for this County by S[i]r John Berkenhead one of the Masters of requests and subscribed unto a petic[i]on exhibited unto his Ma[jes]tie by Edmond Simonds of the p[ar]ish of St Giles in the fields in this County a poore aged man for some penc[i]on allowed to be allowed him out of of this County for his releife hee having p[er]formed and done great faithfull & dangerous service for his late Ma[jes]tie during the warrs conveying letters from Oxford to London from his said late Ma[jes]tie to the late Queene wherein he received many dangerous wounds’ that the JPs afford him a pension in ‘the most high & favourable manner their affaires would admitt p[er]mitt’. Upon examination of the case, it appeared that Simonds was not qualified to receive a pension under a strict interpretation of the Act for Relief of Maimed Soldiers but in respect of the King’s recommendation, it was ordered that Simonds receive a gratuity of five pounds.

Record of payment

Middlesex Quarter Sessions, Hicks Hall, 11 January 1672

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

Edmond Simonds

Described occupation

Occupation unknown

Place of residence

St Giles in the Fields (St Giles in the Fields Parish), Middlesex