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Extracts from the Records of the 



systematic organization, of which the framework remains to this day ^ 

 the army and the navy had not been forgotten and the Irish wars 

 furnished a plentiful list of candidates. For the administration of 

 the fund raised for these retired veterans two treasurers had yearly to 

 be appointed ; Mr. William Bowlie, and Mr. Edward Estcourt, were 

 appointed at the Trinity Sessions, 41st Elizabeth ; and in the two 

 following years j Mr. Thomas Snell, and Mr. Thomas Mompesson — 

 Mr. Edward Long, and Mr. Thomas South — were respectively 

 treasurers . 



The following may serve as an illustration of an order in favour 

 of a maimed soldier : — 



" Whereas Robert Bungey, of Trowbridge, in the foresaid county, hath served 

 our Soverign Lady the Queen's most excellent majesty, in her highness's wars in 

 Ireland, as a soldier, of the company under Captain Charles Egerton, as it 

 appeareth under his hand, and the commissioners authorized by the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, in which the said Robert lost one of his hands to his utter 

 undoing. We therefore, the commissioners for the preservation of her highness's 

 peace in the county where the said Robert was borne, tendring the distressed and 

 weakened estate of the said Robert, and intending his relief, according to the 

 statute made in the parliament of our said Soverign Lady the Queen, holden at 

 Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of February, in the thirty-fifth year of her 

 reign, intituled ' An Act for the necessary relief of soldiers and mariners.' Do by 

 these presents grant and allow unto the said Robert Bungey, a yearly pension of 

 five pounds, of the sums of money collected and gathered, or to be collected and 

 gathered within the said county, according to the said statute, willing and requir- 

 ing, and by these presents authorizing the treasurers of the said county for the 

 said collection upon the sight and view hereof, to make payment of the said pen- 

 sion of five-pounds yearly, unto the said Robert, until such time as the same shall 

 hereafter be revoked in the general and open sessions of the peace, to be holden 

 within the said county. And this our grant made in this present sessions of the 

 peace, holden at Maryborough, the first day of October, in the forty-fourth year of 

 the reign of our said Soverign Lady, the Queen, shalbe their sufficient warrant 

 and discharge for the payment thereof. In witness, &c, 



Edw. Hungeefoed Miles, Will, Eiee Miles, Jacobus Ley, Ar. 



Heneicus Poole, John Waenefoed, Ar. Heney Maetyn, Ar. 



John Danknett, of Sir Arthur Savages' company, received a pen- 

 sion of five pounds : as did also Thomas Dogett, whose claim was 

 authenticated by ' e the lorde president/'' the Earl of Essex. Among 

 soldiers who had served in Ireland : Christopher Duckett, late a 

 sergeant under Captain Tolkerne, obtained a like annuity : William 

 Shiler, of Purton, who had served under Edward Digges, captain 



