Payment details

Gratuity

No gratuity

Pension

40s

Pension frequency

Annual

Notes

Blinkhorne had served his late Majesty of ever-blessed memory as a soldier, under the command of Captain Barty [Bertie?], as a cornet under Colonel Thomas Beddingfield, and as a lieutenant of horse under Captain [?Christwood] Wright. Blinkhorne’s service included Edgehill, Marston Moor, Pontefract, Naseby, Newark and divers other places. [Beddingfield’s regiment was broken up in Lincoln in 1643 when he was taken prisoner. A Lieutenant John Blenkhorn of Lincolnshire appears in column 34 of the 1663 List, indicating that he had served in Colonel James Cromwell’s regiment of horse.]

Record of payment

Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Quarter Sessions, Horncastle, 1 May 1671

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Title

Unknown

Name

John Blinkhorne

Described occupation

Occupation unknown

Place of residence

Bolingbroke (Old Bolingbroke Parish), Lincolnshire