The petition of Mary Cooke of Canterbury (St Alphege Parish), City and County of Canterbury, August 1671
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To the right wor[shi]pp[full] the Maior Recorder and Justices of the peace of the said Citty in Sessions assembled
The humble petition of Mary the wife of William Cooke late of the said Citty Cordwyner deceased
Sheweth
That your petitioners said husband in his life time had a pention of tenn shillings a quarter granted vnto him for his service for our late Sou[er]aigne king Charles the first of blessed memory in the then vnhappy warres and that hee hath left your petitioner in a very poore condic[i]on
shee humbly prayes that you would be pleased to grant her the like pention and shee shall pray &c.
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