Payment details

Gratuity

10s

Pension

40s

Pension frequency

Annual

Notes

fol. 76: Upon the petition and certificate of Edward Fant of Sevenoaks, gardener, showing that he served under the command of Colonel James Till at the siege of Colchester in 1648 and there received ‘dangerous wounds in his belley and other partes of his body’, meaning that he was now poor and could no longer maintain his wife and children, it was ordered that Fant be paid a gratuity of 10 s. and a pension of 40 s. a year.

fol. 76v: Upon the petition and certificate of John Fletcher, showing that he served under the command of Colonel James Till at the siege of Colchester in 1648 and there received ‘dangerous wounds in his bely and other partes of his body’, meaning that he was now poor and could no longer maintain his wife and children, it was ordered that Fant be paid a gratuity of 10 s. and a pension of 40 s. a year.

Record of payment

West Kent Quarter Sessions, Maidstone, 1 October 1661

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

Edward Fant

Described occupation

Other

Place of residence

Sevenoaks (Sevenoaks Parish), Kent