Thousands of maimed soldiers, war widows and orphans across England and Wales submitted petitions for welfare payments in response to their injuries and bereavements sustained in the Civil Wars. The petitions were often accompanied by certificates to prove that the claimants to military welfare were genuine cases. Sometimes these were provided by the medical practitioners who had tended their wounds. Sometimes they were drafted by military officers, confirming that the claimant had served under their command. In other instances, they were drawn up by a claimant’s neighbours who were eager to reduce their parish’s poor rate by securing a county pension for the claimant.
John Balshaw's Jigge: Singing, Star-Crossed Lovers and Signing a Civil War Petition
'Meamed and Lamed': Approaching Civil War Petitions through the Lens of Disability History
‘Lost and impoverished for ever’: The effect of the Civil Wars on Local Communities as seen through Civil War Petitions
Civilian Suffering in the Civil War: the case of Tysoe in Warwickshire
'Battle-Scarred': The Civil War Petitions Summer School
The Persistent Petitioner: Mary Burden, Oliver Cromwell and the Wiltshire Justices of the Peace
‘The hungry jaws of want’ – Basing House and the Maw of War
'The endeavours of your servants': Oliver Cromwell, Military Welfare and Civil War Petitions
A Vengeful Vicar and a Martyred Mother: The Petition of James Bamlett
