Source:  Public Record Office: C 33/184 p. 464
Title:  Chancery Orders & Decrees Easter 20 Charles I
Date:  24 January 1645

Joh’em Pluckrose quer’
Robtu’ Spilman +Thoma’ Knapping et Henricu’ Turner+ et al’ def’tes

The s’d pl’ in respecte of his pourty whereof Affid’t is made is Admitted by the mr of the Roles to sue in this Cort in forma paupis And mr Newdegate & mr Riche are assigned to be of his Councell & mr Smyth for his Attorney

 

It looks as though John Pluckrose was getting a form of Legal Aid