The Case of several of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, and Band of Yeomen of the Guard, Servants to King Charles' the Second, humbly offered to the Honourable House of Commons.  
THAT the Parliament in the late Reign, by an Imposition upon Tobacco and Sugar, raised a Sum of Money for paying the Wages or Salaries due to the Servants of the late King Charles the Second. That there were several Payments made in the late King's Reign, but a great part of the said Salaries or Wages remained unpaid; but since their present Majesties happy Accession to the Crown, that Fund was appropriated, all except Sixty Thousand Pounds to other Uses, which Sixty Thousand Pounds fell short of Payment of what was intended to be paid the said Servants by the former Act.  
That there is also due to your Petitioners, several Wages and Salaries from his late Majesty King James, all which appears in the Account annexed to the said Petition; And whereas your Petitioners, and many others in the same Employments, in the present Reign are turned out of their places which they purchased, to the ruin of many Families, without receiving what was and is still due and oweing to them, though they never were charged with any inqualification, or other matter or thing which in any wise did or doth render them uncapable for the Offices or Employments they were in.  
The equity of all which is humbly offered to the Consideration of this Honourable House.