The petition of John Lamb of Waverton, Cheshire, Michaelmas 1651
To the right honorable they [sic.] Justices of Peace of the County Palatine of Chester the humble Petition of John Lamb of Wareton in the County aforesaid taylor
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That your Petitioner being ingaged vnder the Command of Captain Thomas Walley in the late seruice at Worcester (two others of the town aforesaid able and sufficient men lyable to the seruice by the Act of Parliament refusing) in whose stead your Petitioner voluntarily put himself hauing fair and large promises by the Capt[ain] that they they [sic.] aforesaid Recusants should satisfy your Petitioner for the said seruice as [illegible] amply as any that should vndertake the said seruice. And hee your Petitioner according to his resolutions left his wyfe and one child and two Apprentices who altogether were w were maynteyned at his charge & receiued a desperate wound in the shoulder by a shott whereby hee is disabled being a tradesman to imply himself in yt manner as he hath heretofore and alsoe being was visited w with a tedious & languishing sicknesse
May it therefore please your Honors either to admitt your Petitioner into the number of they [sic.] Pensioners of this County or else to grant out your order or warrant that they two men who refused the seruice may fully satisfy your Petitioner as many haue bin in this case Your [illegible]Petitioner would pray in all humility &c
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