Deposition of July Mitchell

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July Mitchell late of wife to Richard Mitchell Late of Arglinbridge in the parish of letrim & within the County of Corke (a brittish protestant) duely sworn e & examined for & in the behalf e of the said husband name absent by vertue of &c. deposeth & saith. That on or aboute Shrouetide last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland the said Richard lost & hath beene robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt worth 38 li. 2 s.
Of the said Richard Mitchells Cowes woorth seaven pounds ten shillings Of houshould goods & prouision in the house to the value of twelue pounds fiue shillings. Of garden fruites to the value of twenty shillings Of ready mony to the sume of fortie seaven shillings & fiue pence. The deponent saith that the said Richard Mitchell by meanes of this r ebellion was dispossessed of a parcell of land of A rglin aforesaid wherin he had a lease of nynteene yeeres to come woorth Coibus annis fortie shillings per annum which he valueth to be woorth twelue pounds sterling. O f debts which the said Richard Mitchell accounted goode debts before the begining of this rebellion amounting to three pounds & fortie shillings due vpon Thomas Stent but in regard the said Stent is vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion & therefore the said Richard Mitchell cannot gett satisfaction from them. The totall of the said Richard Mitchells losses amounts to eight & thirtie pounds two shillings she alsoe deposeth that the said Richard Mitchell was robbed about the time aboue mencioned by meanes of Richard Condon & John Condon of BallymcPatrick in the said County gentleman & Capteine Gracee in the said County gentleman & others whose names he knoweth not she further saith that the said Condons stripped this deponent & her husband & her daughters Thomas Mitchell this deponents son & his wife all of Arglinbridge aforesaid, Tristram Ebbett Garrett widdow Trustrum Troule of the parish of Morray in the said County yeoman. Shee Lastly saith that her son Thomas Mitchell aforesaid was murthered at Coole in the said County by the Condons as she is informed Richard Mitchell was second son to this deponent was likewise murthered as shee is informed) but where or by whome she knoweth not & the deponents third son, John Mitchell was likewise murthered, but by whome she knoweth not & further she [ ] depose that bartholomewe White of lettrime in the said
{J ur}at coram nobis 16: Juniy 1642

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County gentleman tould this deponent that what the rebells did in stripping of the English they had the kings broade seale to shewe for it & further she canot depose

July [mark] Mitchells marke
Jurat coram nobis
16o Juniy 1642
Tho: Badnedge
Phil: Bisse

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Wee his Maiesties Commissioners appointed

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The examination of July Mitchell
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