Payment details

Gratuity

40s

Pension

No pension

Notes

"Whereas it appeareth … that [blank] Ellery of Hemiock was hanged by the late kings partie for his faithfull service to the Common wealth who left Joane his wife with small children in great need & want haveing no mainetenance for their subsistence, It is therefore ordered that the Treasurer for the maymed souldiers doe forthwith pay unto her forty shillings towards her present maintenance."

Record of payment

Devon Quarter Sessions, Exeter Castle, 6 October 1657

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

Joan Ellery

Described occupation

Cloth Worker

Place of residence

Hemyock (Hemyock Parish), Devon