Deposition of Roger Gwinne

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<77> Roger Gwinne of the towne & parish of whitchurch the Barronrie of Iverke & & County of Kilkennie Clerke a brittish protestant duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue of his Maiesties Commission &c. deposeth that aboute the tenth of nouember last past he lost was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his good & Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt. worth 440 li. part consisting of debts owing by
Of Cowes horses Mares yearlings sheepe & swine & poultrie to the value of threescore pounds. Off houshould stuff to the value of twenty pounds Of Corne & hay in house & haggard to the value of one hundred pounds Of Corne in ground since lost by this rebellion to the value of one hundred pounds This deponent saith that hee is dispossessed of the benefitt of his lease of the land of Whitchurch wherin he had a tearme of twenty ninteene yeares to come being worth aboue the lanlords rent twenty pounds per Annum wherin hee conceaues himself damnified to the value of one hundred pounds Of debts amounting to the summe of forty pounds which ere this rebellion were esteemed good debts but now become desperate by reason the debtors are papists & such are out in open <A> & actuall rebellion such as James Tobin fitz Addam of garran gibbon in the parish of Grang in the Com of Tipperarie, gentleman & Edmond Tobin of the same gent Edmond Dalton of Atyshamus of the said Com gent with others & therfore this deponent cannot gett satisfaccion from anie of them He likwise saith that he is dispossessed of another farme of part of the Land of Ballinora wherein in the said Com wherin hee had a terme of seuenteene yeares to come being worth aboue the landlords five pounds per Annum heerin hee conceaues himselfe damnified to the value of twenty five pounds The totall of his said losses in goods & Chattles amounts to the summe of foure hunded & forty pounds besids the losse of his spirituall livings worth to this deponent Communibus Annis fifty pounds per Annum which he leaues to considderacion.
This deponent saith that he was robbed of his horses sheepe swine & poultrie by Richard Comerford of gragnoe in the Com of Kilkenny gentleman & landlord to this deponent his Corne taken away from the house & haggard by Tho: Butler of killmanahin & Robert Welch of [Vnuie] in the said Com of Kilkenny gentleman & diuers others whose names this deponent knoweth not. The deponent likwise saith that about Christide last (as hee is credably informed) on Georg Loe was viccar of Clonee coming to fetherd in the County of Tipperarie was there murthred & farther he cannot depose.
Roger Gwinn
Jurat coram nobis 5o 9bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Richard ffr{ench}

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Roger Gwins examination
Kilkenny

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