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the Rebellion, as we know from his petition in 1653 to Oliver Cromwell, in which he acknowledges Cromwell's lawful authority as ruler of England and Ireland, and asks again for a pension, which it seems had already been promised but never paid. Gernon states that he had lost an estate worth £3000 (a considerable sum at the time); that he and his wife and four small children had been forced to "travel in depth of winter through the woods and bogs", and as a result, one

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