Deposition of Nicholas Martin

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1613
Nicholas Martine late of Carrigcle in the parish of White church in the barony of the desses within the County of Waterford yeoman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth and saith That on or aboute Christmas last and since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seauerall values followeing vizt value of 267 li. 16 s.
O f Cowes yeerlings sheepe & swine to the value of fortie fiue pounds Of houshould goods to the value fifteene pounds six shillings Of his Implements of husbandry to the value of one pounds ten shillings Of hay & Corne in the haggard & house to the value of fortie six pounds Of three stockes of bees to the value of fortie shillings sterling Of his garden fruites to the value of fortie shillings The deponent saith that he was expelled and driuen away from his said farme & house where he left in Corne in Ground to the value of fiftie one pounds Hee further saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessedof his said farme wherin he had a lease of nyne & twenty yeeres to come woorth aboue the rent six pounds per annum which he valueth to be woorth ( being improued with building fenceing & ditching) to the value of one hundred pounds sterling The deponent saith that foure houses of this deponents were burnt by the rebells meanes of this rebellion which cost this deponent in building fifteene pounds The totall of his losses amounts to two hundred three score & seaventeene pounds sixteene shillings The deponent saith that he was robbed by Thomas Sowtherd of Kilganny alias Kenny in the said County an Englishman Dauid Tobin of Kilmurry in the said County gentleman yeoman John Tobin of Kilmurry aforesaid Nicholas Tobin of the same yeoman William Tobin of the same yeoman John o Murry of the same yeoman John Croe of Kilgany aforesaid yeoman He lastly saith that his children John Martine Annis Martine Zenoby Martine were stripped by the rebells their names he knoweth not & further he canot depose
Nicholas [mark] Martine{s marke}
{Jur}at coram nobis 17o Junij 1642
{Tho} Badnedge Phil: Bisse

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1614
The examination of
Nicholas Martine
Waterford
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