Payment details

Gratuity

No gratuity

Pension

40s

Pension frequency

Annual

Notes

fol. 75: Upon a certificate from Sir Francis Clerke and George May Esq., JPs, showing that William Meare of Cowling, cordwainer, was at the siege of Colchester in 1648 under the command of Captain William Gooteer and there received a wound in his leg, whereby he is no longer able to maintain his family, and he was also very old, it was ordered that Meare be paid a pension of 40 s. a year.

Record of payment

West Kent Quarter Sessions, Maidstone, 1 October 1661

Payment made to

Title

Unknown

Name

William Meare

Described occupation

Leather Worker

Place of residence

Cooling (Cooling Parish), Kent