Payment details

Gratuity

No gratuity

Pension

£4.0s.0d.

Pension frequency

Annual

Notes

Fol. 34: Richard Shorter petitioned the court that he had served parliament in the late wars from the beginning until the last rising in Kent. At the battle of Maidstone in 1648 he was shot through the aright arm, ‘be reason whereof he hath beene enforced to haue the same cutt of’. He had a certificate in support of his case from Colonel John Barkstead, one of the JPs for Middlesex. He was awarded £4 per annum. He was last settled in the parish of Heston prior to the wars.

Record of payment

Middlesex and Westminster Quarter Sessions, Hicks Hall, 27 April 1652

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

Richard Shorter

Described occupation

Occupation unknown

Place of residence

Heston (Heston Parish), Middlesex