Civil War Petitions

Gratuity: No gratuity
Pension: £3.0s.0d.
Pension frequency: Annual
Notes: Fol. 38: Elizabeth Goose of the parish of Twickenham petitioned the court that her husband, Thomas Goose, was in the State’s service for seven years and served as a gunner at Newbury Fight and continued until the siege of Colchester, where he was slain. She was left with three small children to maintain, who have lately been visited with sickness ‘w[hi]ch much added to the greife & afflicc[i]on of the said poore Pet[itioner]’. She had a certificate from John, Lord Barkstead and Colonel John Biscoe confirming that Thomas was a gunner before Colchester, ‘behaved himself dilligently and faithfully’ and was there ‘slayne by a Cannon bullet’. She also had a certificate from the inhabitants of the parish of Twickenham, testifying to her poverty. Given a pension of £3 p.a.
Record of payment: Middlesex and Westminster Quarter Sessions, Hicks Hall, 19 April 1658