The second petition of Captain William Croome, Richard Thornhill’s Regiment, May 1660
To ye Kings most excell[en]t Ma[jes]tie.
The humble Petic[i]on of Capt[ain] William Croome
Most humbly sheweth.
That your Pet[itione]r hath faithfully served his late Ma[jes]tie of happy and blessed memory from the begining of the Warrs untill his death, as Capt[ain] of a Troope of Horse in Col[one]l Richard Thornehills Regim[en]t of Horse, and as Quarter Ma[ste]r Gen[era]ll of ye Earle of Cleavelands Brigade of Horse, As by his Com[m]issions appeares, and went from Holland with your sacred Ma[jes]tie into Scotland, when at the charge of Musselbrough vnder the com[m]and of Col[one]l Robert Mountgomery, your pet[itione]r was desperately wounded, and much disvigered by Cutts in his face, and had many in his Body, and then taken prisoner. Since w[hi]ch time being there by disabled to follow your Ma[jes]tie hee hath beene by Sicknesse, and other extremities of the times, reduced into very great poverty, yet still remayned constant and faithfull to your Ma[jes]ties Interest.
Your Pet[itione]r therefore most humbly prayes your Ma[jes]ty, That you will be gratiously pleased to conferre on him, a Groome of the Chamber, or a Messengers place in ordinary to your Ma[jes]tie, or any other as to your Ma[jes]tie shall seeme meete.
And yo[u]r pet[itione]r as bound shall pray &c.
<The Humble peticon of Capt[ain] William Croome.>