| Description | Petition of Thomas Everton stating he had a wife and family to maintain and was unable to do so by reason of losses both in Ireland and by fire. He was born and bred in the City and served an apprenticeship of five years with Lancelott Cowes, hosier, whose estate decayed so that he had no employment for the petitioner and sent him to Ireland. There he took up arms for the King and Parliament and remained in service there after which he was 'undone' in Foregate Street as a poor inhabitant not in arms and made a prisoner in the Northgate, for exercising the freedom, to which he was entitled. He asked that he might be enlarged and enjoy his freedom. |