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P adjorn Jovis
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16o. die Octobris 1729
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Order for allowing a
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County pention of
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three pounds P Ann
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to
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Upon reading the humble peticon of
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of St.
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in this County Mariner exhibited
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unto this Court setting forth that the Peticoner hath Served
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in the Royal Navy upwards of twenty years in which he
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did his duty to the best of his ability and that the peticoner
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was with the right Honble. the Lord Terrington in the
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Barfleur in the Engagement with the Spanish Fleet off
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of
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in which he received a wound in his right
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Ann, which hath So contracted the Sinews as to render him
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unserviceable, and the peticoners therefore humbly prayed
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this Court to admitt him (amongst other poor Soldiers &
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Sailers) to the benefit of a pension paid by this County by
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the direccon of this Court, Now upon examinacon into the
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premisses, and an produceing of proper Certificates to make
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out the truth of the peticoners case Setforth in his Said
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peticon as the Law in Such case directs This Court being
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Satisfyed of the truth of the premisses, and that the peticoner
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is an Inhabitant legally Settled in the parish of St. Margaret
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in this County and that he is not a pentioner to
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the Chest at
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Chatham
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, and that he is a person deserveing to
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be admitted as a disabled Mariner & pentioner of this
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County Doth Order that the peticoner be and he is hereby
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admitted & allowed to be a disabled Mariner and
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pentioner of this County, And this Court doth further
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Order that the
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(for the time being) of the moneys
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raised to be raised for releif of maimed Soldiers and
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Mariners
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within the Hundreds of Ossulston Edmonton
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and
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in this County Doe yearly & every year
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thereout allow & pay or cause to be allowed & paid unto
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the peticoner they yearly pention or Sume of three pounds
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by quarterly payments to be made at Christmas Lady day
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Midsumer & Michmas by equall porcons for and
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