The petition of Jonathan Beckett of Middlewich, Cheshire, Easter 1672
To the Right Worshipfull S[i]r Geoffrey Shakerley Knight and Thomas Cholmondley Esquire Two of his Maiestyes Justices of Peace of the County Palatine of Chester
The humble petic[i]on of Jonathan Beckett of Middlewich in the said County Laborer
<Most humbly sheweth>
That whereas your poore indigent Petitioner hath bin alwaies a constant and loyall subiect as well to his late maiesty king Charles the first of euer blessed memory as alsoe to his Maiesty that now is and was a soldier for the royall interest in the late warres for the space of seauen yeares vnder the Command of Maior Spotworth & Maior Willeys & others whereby hee became a great sufferer and by reason thereof had long since bin admitted into the number of Pentioners but that it was suggested that hee had an estate But now so it is may it please your good worshipps that your Petitioner is in a very poore [illegible] and low estate and condition and hath any not only estate at all to maynteyne himselfe and his family but is in danger to endure whatsoeuer calamities pinching want and hunger can produce if not in some sort releeued
The premisses being Considered your poore petitioner h{umb}ly craues to be adm{itted} into the number of Pentioners and likewise if it mig{ht ple}ase your good wors{hips} That some thing may be allowed him for that time past wherein hee should haue bin admitted towards the supply of his present necessityes which are so pressing and vrgent that your petic[i]oner cannot expresse them in w{or}ds though in deed hee sensibly perceiues them And in so doing you will {illegible} the praiers of your poore petitioner for your health and prosper{ity}
referred to the Justices of the peace of North[wich] hund[red]
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