Civil War Petitions

Gratuity: No gratuity
Pension: £0.0s.0d.
Pension frequency: Unknown
Notes: The pension amount was left blank, to be awarded as soon as the next existing pensioner should die. Coxhead served in the regiment of Col Sir Peregrine Bertie for many years, during which time he rose to command a troop of horse. He was based in Newark until that garrison’s surrender in 1646. Having been reduced to a low condition, he had petitioned Robert Bertie, 3rd earl of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain, who recommended him to the Horncastle and Louth Justices for a pension. [Coxhead is not mentioned by any former officers of Sir Peregrine Bertie’s regiment in the 1663 List, but a Captain Coxhead is mentioned by three indigent officers (two of whom were from Lincolnshire) as a troop commander in Sir George Bunkley’s regiment of horse.]
Record of payment: Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Quarter Sessions, Horncastle, 5 October 1668