| Description | 'Major Bayly Petition and Case with some Acct of Himself'
The petitioner describes himself as the fourth son of a younger brother of the House of Lamington in Scotland who became chaplain to Chalres I and died one of his English bishops [he was in fact Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor 1616-1631, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Bagnall, Marshal of Ireland). After serving the King faithfully in the civil War, he states that he was instrumental in bringing the future Charles II the first account of 'General Monk's declaring for a free Parliament'. For this service he was rewarded by Charles with the grant of the Statute Office worth £700 a year, and with lands in county Louth, Ireland. These lands were later taken away from him and given to the Earl of Carlingford and others by a clause in the Act of Settlement for Ireland. He was promised £2000 as compensation, but never received it. Refers to further great disappointments and broken promises and now petitions that he may at least expect to be provided for either in a civil or military capacity, and in some measure to his pretensions. |