Payment details

Gratuity

No gratuity

Pension

£4.0s.0d.

Pension frequency

Annual

Notes

Upon reading the humble petition of Henry Bryant of Rougham in this county, showing that he served their Majesties King Charles the First and King Charles the Second in a foot company under Captain William Richardson under the command of his Excellency the Duke of Albemarle (who was instrumental to King Charles the Second’s happy return and restoration) and has now grown impotent, poor and ancient, and unable to subsist without relief. This court thereupon orders the treasurer for maimed soldiers and mariners of this division to pay him £4 a year, to be paid him quarterly until this court order the contrary.

NOTE: Captain William Richardson commanded a company in Colonel Samuel Clarke’s regiment of foot in the Army of the Commonwealth. The regiment served in the Dunkirk garrison, returning home in September 1659. Geneal George Monck (the future Duke of Albemarle) sent the regiment to Scotland. It was part of Monck’s force when he marched down to London in 1660 (hence the reference to being ‘instrumental’ to Charles II’s ‘happy return’. The regiment was disbanded in November-December 1660. It is therefore uncertain if Henry Bryant ever actually served Charles I (although many royalist prisoners-of-war did subsequently enlist in the New Model Army). Bryant seems to be yet another ex-parliamentarian veteran exploiting his link with Monck’s famous march to gain a pension after the Restoration.

Record of payment

Suffolk Quarter Sessions, Bury St Edmunds, 20 January 1690

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

Henry Bryant

Described occupation

Occupation unknown

Place of residence

Rougham (Rougham Parish), Suffolk