Examination of John Prance

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John Prance late of Poulmouny in the parish of Tinahinch within the County of Waterford Catherlagh husbandman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth & saith That vpon the feast of all Saints last & since the begining of this present rebellion in Ireland he lost & hath beene robbed & forceably despoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt worth 65 li. x s. part consisting of debts due by the Rebells vizt
Of Cowes horses swine at Poulmouny aforesaid to the value of thirtie pounds. Of houshould stuff & houshoud provision & weareinge apparell to the value of foure & twenty pounds. Of hay & garden fruites to the value of eight pounds This deponent further saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was expelled lost in debts which he accounted good debts before the begining of this rebellion amounting to the sume of three pounds ten shillings due vpon Tobie Butler & Walter Butler both of Symolin in the said County gentlemen nowe in actua{l} rebellion & therefore the deponent canot gett satisfaction from them The totall of his losses amounts to three score & fiue pounds ten shillings besides the losse of his clerkshipp of Symolin afo{resaid} woorth Coibis annis six pounds per annum which he leaues to future consideration. He was robbed aboute the time aboue menconed by the meanes of Donnell mc Edmond of Ballycrenegan in the said County gentleman & his son whose name he knoweth not. The depone nt he further saith two of his children the one called Mary Prance of the adge of ten yeeres was stabbed by one of the rebells & beinge before half starued shee presently she died soone after & another child Juan Prance of the adge of fiue weeckes or therabouts was taken by one of Captaine Richard Stronges company whose name this deponent knoweth not he then stripping this deponents wife & the said child at Passadge in Waterford & threwe her <ouer> the mothers shoulders & the child pitched vpon her head & broke her neck & dyed there within a day or two afterwards The deponent further saith that Margery Prance the wife of this deponent comeing from Ross to Waterford by water amonge other English & protestants she was stripped by the rebells starke naked but their names this deponent knoweth not & the said Margery being in the last of her time shee was forced to wrapp her selfe in a wadd of straw to couer her nakednes & so continued for many houres to[ge]ther till at last shee got an ouer coat to {cover} her withall & further he canot depose
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