Civil War Petitions

Gratuity: £20.0s.0d.
Pension: No pension
Notes: ‘Whereas it appeareth unto this Committee by the peticion of Joseph Cuffe of Dorchester, late deceased, as allsoe by the peticion of John Cobbe and Mary his wife (mother of the said Joseph) that hee, the sayde Joseph Cuffe, served the Parlyament as a trooper (under the command of Colonel Brune) by the space of one yeare, and that hee was set forth with a horse and armes and mayntayned in that service by his sayd parents, and that hee grew sicke in that service in a disease whereof hee dyed, but by longe languishing therein, to the great charge of his parents, beinge very ill able to beare the same; and whereas there appeareth to be due unto the said Joseph Cuffe, in areere for his sayd service, five and twentie pounds ten shillings, which in his death bed he bequeathed and desired might be payd unto his said mother; it is therefore thought fit and ordered that the Treasurer of this countie doe, with all convenient speede, pay unto the sayd John Cobbe and Mary his wife the summe of twentie pounds, in full satisfaccion of the sayd areeres, for which this shall bee his warrant’.
Record of payment: Dorset County Committee, Dorchester, 16 October 1646