Civil War Petitions

Gratuity: Unknown
Pension: Unknown
Notes: John Wilby of Ipswich, an ex-soldier for Parliament was on 29 May 1660 sent with a pass to settle at Bressingham, Norfolk. Bressingham objected that Wilby had been settled in Ipswich since he was 17 years old and had paid rates there. They objected he had been wounded in the Parliament’s service and returned to Ipswich, ‘& there continued diverse years & was sent from thence to the hospitall at London to be cured of his wounds & hurts & about three years last past came to Ipswich againe’. The inhabitants of Bressingham wanted Wilby returned to Ipswich and gave notice to the bailiffs of Ipswich that they would complain at the next Norfolk sessions, and cause the bailiffs to answer for why they would not provide for Wilby in Ipswich. The JPs ruled that Wilby ‘could not be a vagrant in Ipswich having lived there as aboves[ai]d and ordered that the said Wilby should be sent to Ipswich thereunto to be p[ro]vided for as the law in that Case requireth.’
Record of payment: Norfolk Quarter Sessions, Norwich, 18 July 1660