| Description | Wordy request for relief in his impoverished circumstances: he had formerly held commissions in the Life Guards and the Queen's Light Dragoons; through fraud he lost his estate in Stanway, Essex, where he had been lord of the manor and had inclosed Stanway Heath; he had been left a disabled after a barbaric attack by a gang of footpads on the Epsom Road; he cannot make a claim against his injuries as he was not injured while on military service; his wife is fatigued and depressed with caring for him; he mentions the names of others from whom he has received relief: Lady Pitt of Highfield Park, Mrs Wyndham and the Rev Dr Andrews, Dean of Canterbury; and he copies at the end a letter supporting his claim from H. Leigh Thomas, surgeon, of Leicester Place
3 August 1812 |