Deposition of Thomas Powell

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1285
Thomas Powell late of the parish of Mothill in Baronry of vpper th ira d, & county of Waterford clearke, duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue etc, deposeth & sayth that about the twenty seauenth day of Decemb: last past & since the begining of this present rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following vizt value of 40 li. 10 s.
Of one horse & one cowe and swine to the value of fower fiue pownds: Of houshold goods to the value of twenty shillings <Of ready money & three gold rings, taken from the deponents wife to to the summe & value seaun pownds ten shilli ngs:> Of houshold goods, linnen & woollen & houshold prouision & books to the value of twenty two pownds Of Corne in the haggard & house to the value of six pownds the totall of his losses amounts to the summe of forty thirty three pownds ten shillings besids the losse of his curate shipps of Mothill, Desert & Kilmolleran vnder the Broad Seale in said County worth communibus annis twenty two pownds per annum He sayth that he was robd by Peirce Butler <A> seruant to Charls Euerard of Newtown England in county of Tip: gen; & Derby Laghan a seruant to James Wall of Killimucky Esquire & by the seruants & tenants of Nicholas Poore of Kilballikilty Esquire & by the seruants & tenants of John Butler of the parish of Desert aforesaid gen & by some of the tenants of Desert aforesaid to the Earle of Ormond he also sayth that this deponent his wife & fowr children were stript by the persons aforesaid whose names he cannot rememmber He also sayth that Peter Anthony of Kilrosenty in county of Waterford gen heretofore a reputed Protestant [ ] is now turnd Papist & rebell, this also is true of th e Soe are his two sons of the same Paul & Arthur gen, John Hodges Inkeeper & his wife of Carick in county of Tipperary John loome of Desert husb: & his wife (formerly protestants) & now turn’d Papists & further he cannot depose
per me Tho: Powell
Jurat coram nobis 20th Aug:
1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis

fol. 108v

1286
Tho: Powells Exam:
Waterford
Reu
170