By C. Penruddocke. 35 
Minutes of commissions in 12th Regiment of Foot :— 
“No. 12. Colonel Lane’s Regiment, 
“Captain Lane. 
“ Arden Bagot, &c.” 
At this time there were great military preparations against the 
Dutch. 
In 1695, that is to say some forty-four years after the meamnotable 
Battle of Worcester, Thomas Lane, the eldest son of Colonel John 
Lane, petitions the Lords of the Treasury for arrears of a pension 
which had been settled on him on account of his father’s services : 
as follows :— 
i ett card ~~“ To the Right Honbl. the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s 
xxii, No. 81. Treasury. 
“The humble Peticon of Thomas Lane, Esq., 
Most Humbly Sheweth. 
“That in consideration of Your Peticoner’s Father’s being so instru- 
mental in the preservation of King Charles II. after the battaile of Worcester, 
your Peticoner had a Pention of 500" per annum during life settled on him by 
his said Majesty, 
“That at Lady day last 1695, there was an arrear of the said Pention due to 
your Peticoner, sume of 51254 as appears by a certificate under Sir Robert 
Howard’s hand. That your Peticoner’s father had contracted some debts on the 
aforesaid account, which doe still incumber your peticoners estate, and having 
children to provide for, he is utterly unable to do it without his Majesty’s assistance. 
“Wherefore your Peticoner most humbly prays your Lordships will be pleased 
to give some speedy and effectual order that your Peticoner may receive his 
arrear aforesaid. 
“ And yr. Peticoner as in Duty shall ever Pray, &c.” 
_ [Endorsed] “ Pet". of M’. Thos, Lane.” 
[Enclosing] 
Certificate by Sir Robert Howard, 30-April, 1695, that the Pension aforesaid 
- is in arrears since Mich: 1679, being 4875&.” * 
My paper would hardly, I think, be complete without some further 
allusion to the tree which served as a temporary refuge for the King. 
_ Sylva, 3rd ed., Evelyn, in the somewhat fulsome style of preface 
79. used in dedicating books to people of rank, ad- 
3 dresses the King thus: “Since you are our @eds dAvxos Nemorensis 
ae 
*The sum £5125 is arrived at by adding a half-year’s pension (£250) to £4875—from Michaelmas, 
1694, to Lady Day, 1695, 
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