Deposition of Thomas Hobard

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Thomas Hobard late of Ballyknockane in the parish of Ballingary barony of Connelloe & within the County of Limericke gentleman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth and saith That on or aboute the 16th of december last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt 210 li. 10 s.
Of Cowes horses mares & shee p e at Ballyknockane aforesaid to the value of foure score & seaventeene pounds ten shillinges Of houshould stuff to the value of ten pounds Of hay & Corne in the haggard to the value of fiue pounds The deponent saith that he left in Corne in ground vpon the said land of Ballyknockane which he beleeues to be lost to the value of eight & twenty pounds He likewise saith that by meanes of this presente rebellion he is dispossessed of his said farme wherin he hath a lease p aroll of one & twenty yeeres to come if the lessor liue soe long woorth Coibus annis aboue the land lords rent six & twenty pounds per annum which lease this deponent valueth to be w o orth one hundred foure three score & two ten pounds The totall of his losses amounts to three two hundred twenty two & ten pounds ten shillings The deponent saith that William Colmes & his confederats of Lismole in the said County Esquire tooke away from this deponent aboute Christmas last parte of his said Cowes & horses & his corne & hay in the haggard & the rest of his goods & Cattle were taken away but by whome he knoweth not
Tho: Hobart
Jurat coram nobis 23o
August 1642
Phil: Bisse Jam: Wallis

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Limerick
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