Deposition of Thomas Badnedge

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Thomas Badnidge late of the parish of Inshinebaccay & barony of Barrymore & within the Countie of Corke Esquire (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute shrouetide Last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost and was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt value of 3314 li. 10 s. sterling part consisting of
Of Cowes steeres heiffers and sheepe at Inshinebaccy aforesaid to the value of one hundred and three score pounds. This deponent saith that by meanes of this rebellion he lost the benefitt of his lease of Inshinebaccy aforesaid woorth Coibus annis aboue the landlords rent one hundred and three score pounds per Annum haueing a lease therin of foure or fiue and thirtie yeeres to come or therabouts & hath disbursed vpon the premisses in ready mony in buildinge & other Improuements the sume of one hundred & twenty seaventy pounds which lease together with his said Improuements this deponent valueth to be woorth one thousand one hundred three score and ten pounds. Of a lease of the land of Tircullingbegg and parte of Ballychement both in the Countie of Waterford and neere Tallough haueing a tea r me lease therin of one & thirtie yeeres yeett to come, which this deponent beleeues was woorth to be sett fiftie pounds per annum aboue the landlords rent which lease this deponent valueth to be woorth to be sould foure hundred pounds. The deponent further saith that he hath another lease of the lands of Ballyhubbert in the said Countie of Corke for seaven or eight and twenty yeeres yeett to come or therabouts which lease this deponent valueth to be woorth three hundred pounds. Of debts which he accounted to be goode debts before th e begining of this presente rebellion amounting to the sume of twelue nine hundred three foure score and nyneteene foure pounds pounds ten shillings due vpon the vndernamed persons vizt English and protestants vtterly impouerished by meanes of this rebellion vizt John Colman gentleman Bartholomew e Pesley gentleman Thomas dale gentleman John Gandy gentleman Thomas Ayres & Morgan Awbry gentleman & likewise the vndernamed persons (papists) and out in actuall rebellion (as he is credibly informed) are indebted to this deponent in parte of thaboue sume vizt Debts due from the Rebells as & Pap i sts as Theobald Butler gentleman Theobald Taaffe Esquire

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(eldest son to the lord Taaffe) Sir James dillon knight Richard dalton gentleman (formerly an English protestant but since this rebellion turned papist) Pierce Hackett gentleman John Boorke of <B> Tinnerany in the Countie of Clare gentleman Pierce Butler Esquire (son and heire to Sir Richard Butler knight in the County of Tipperary) and Rory o dea in the Countie of Clare yeoman. This deponent saith lastly saith that by reason some parte of his papers are nowe in England he canot nowe remember for the presente the certaine place of the said parties abode, nor the rest, of his debtors names. But in regard that thaboue named English & protestants are dissenabled by meanes of this rbeellion & the rest the said parties are out in actuall rebellion, therefore this deponent cannot gett satisfaction from them. The totall of his losses amounts to three thousand & nyne three hundred & fourteene pounds ten shillings sterling and further he cannot depose./

Tho: Badnedge
Jurat coram nobis
29o Junij 1642
Percy Smyth
Phil: Bisse

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The examination of Tho:
Badnidge Esquire
Corke
Re
int