Payment to Richard Coppin

Payment details

Gratuity

No gratuity

Pension

No pension

Notes

Whereas Richard Coppin, late of Bury St Edmunds in this county, a person to whom this court has heretofore granted a yearly pension for his better livelihood, which said Richard Coppin keeping of an alehouse in the said town of Bury and brewing his beer, did run into arrears to his Majesty for excise of beer the sum of £3 9 s. 9 d., as appears to this court upon oath. This court does thereupon order the treasurer of maimed soldiers within this division to pay unto Mr William Howkins, agent to his Majesty’s Commissioners for Excise, the said 3 li. 4 s. 9 d., and to defalk the same out of the said Richard’s pension.

Record of payment

Suffolk Quarter Sessions, Bury St Edmunds, 10 October 1670

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

Described occupation

Craftsman/Tradesman

Place of residence

Bury St Edmunds (St Mary’s Parish), Suffolk