Deposition of Rossemond Deane

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Rossemond Deane of Gortitohor in the Bar r ony of Bunratty and County of Clare husbandman: beinge duly swo rne and examined before vs by vertue of his Maiesties Comission to vs and others directed beareineg date &c: deposeth and saieth that on or aboute the fouerteenth Day of December in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred ffortie and one, and since the begining of this present rebellion in Ireland Hee lost, was robbed and dispoiled forceably of his goods and Chattles, and debts comeing to the seuerall values and s o mes ffollowineg vizt sum of 137 li. 10 s.
Of Cowes, heifers, steeres, horses, Mares, and garrans, and piggs or hoggs to the value of ffowere score and seaventeene pounds and ten shillings Of howshould stuffe to the value of ffiue pounds; Of seuerall soarts of Corne in ground vizt wheate, rye, and greate Barely to the quantiti of twelue Englishe acres or thereabouts to the value of sixteene pounds;
of hey in stacke to the value of ffoure pounds, Of due debts to the some of tenn pounds; Hee ffurther deposeth and saieth that hee was expulsed and amooued out of a parcell of land contayneinge half a plowland called Gortitohire situat in the Parishe of Killquayne in the Barrony of Bunrratty and Com: of Clare aforesaid by one John mc Namarra of Naaddynarry in the said Barrony and Com: gent: and Donell mc Namarra of in the said County gent and other vnknowne rebells whoe are in open accion of rebellion, of which lands the deponent had a tearme yett to come and then vnexpired of a yeare and a half and was woorth the deponent ffiue pounds a yeare ouer and aboue his Landlords rent ffiue pounds by the yeare for which the deponent saieth that hee is d a mpnified at the least ffiue pounds; The totall of his losses in goods amounts to the summe of one hundred thirty seuen pounds tenn shill & further he doth not depose
Rosemond [mark] Deane
Jurat coram nob: 12: Nouemb:
1642
Phil: Bisse
Richard ffrench

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Rosmond Deanes Exam
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