On the sixteenth day of parliament
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Prayers said, rolls called.
The estates of parliament having heard and considered the petition given in by Anna Wilson, widow of the late Captain John Hamilton, bearing that her husband, being a captain in the regiment under the command of the general of the artillery, was killed at the taking of Newcastle, having left behind him the supplicant, a poor, indigent widow with five fatherless children, wanting means to maintain and educate them except only that which is due to him for his service since his entry thereto, which began in December 1643 to the day of his death; and therefore desiring that order and warrant may be given that she may be paid her late husband's bygone means and arrears due to him for his service in the aforesaid charge during the space above-written, as the supplication purports. The said estates remit and recommend the supplicant, with her supplication and desire thereof, to the committee appointed for the losses and for the killed, maimed and lamed soldiers, to be taken into consideration by that committee as they shall think the same deserves after consideration thereof and desire aforesaid.