Dean wished he could follow the lead of the pensioners and catch a nap.
Here is the royal hospital for pensioners and maimed soldiers.
In 1723 a vote for the government got him the place of captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners.
Pensioners must be British subjects, poor, and not ex-criminals or of notoriously bad character.
In the first three years after enactment of the law the growth of the number of pensioners was very rapid; in the next five it was remarkably slow - only 481 altogether.