Deposition of Hugh Croker

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Hugh Croker of Cappoquin within the parish of Lismore & Barrony of Cosm emore & Cosebridy and Countie of Waterford esquire (a Brittish protestant) beinge duely sworne and examined by vertue of &c deposeth and saith that about Candlemas last and since this present rebellion in Ireland he lost and was robbed and forceablie dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt value of 1922 li.__10 s. Part consisting of
Of Cowes younge cattle horses mares & sheepe att Cappoquin aforesaid to t h e value of fourtie pownds three pownds & ten shillings, lost in [ ] of howses buylt formerlie in the towne of Cappoquin & there neere adioyninge {& that} since the begining of this Rebellion [ ] dyvers [ ]
to the value of two hundred pownds And this deponent further saith that he holdeth the Towne & castle of Cappoqion aforesaid of the rig & other lands there adioyninge of the right honourable the Earle of Corke lo: high Tre a surer of Ireland for Seventeen yeres yett to come & vne x pired and is worth yerely aboue the rent he payd for twoe hundred and forutie pownds and in which he is damnifyed in the summe of [ ] eight hundred & sixtie pownds Of Corne in the Haggard there to the value of Twoe & Twenty pownds And he also saieth he hath layed out in chargs on strangers which came there from the Eastrene partes & [ ] sp ent by the Rebells & in other expenc s & char ges about woorks be f ore he had a Comission to raise a Company to defend the towne & Bridge there against the Rebells the s ome of Twentie pownds And he further saith that he hath lost since this Rebellion by the Rebells at Croome in the parish of Newecastle in t h e Countie of Tipperarie in hous e hould goods to the value of ten pownds in horses there two three pownds [ ] shillings in Corne & haye in the haggard there thi rtie fower pownds in debts due due from John Shepherd late of Cappoquin aforesaid & [ ] ffrancs Kettleby clarke britti and others brittish protestants Three score pownds beinge all impoverished protestants by meanes of th i s Rebellion Alsoe debts due to him from Rebells as James <A> Prendergast of Tullaghmealagh in the Countie of Tipperarie esquire in rebellion fyue pownds seventeen shillings nyne p encem more due to him for the repairinge of the [ ] Church of Newecastle in the said Countie of Tipperarie the sume of Eight pownds one shillings & twoe pence whi c h is to b e payed vnto him by Edmond

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<B> Prendergast of Newecastle aforesaid esquire the said James Prendergast & Richard Prendergast of Kilnacarrigge within the said parish gen william oge Berne of the same gen Tegge o Lonergane of the same gentleman & the rest of the parishners of Newecastle abovesaid whose names this deponent doth not nowe remember and all of them in Rebellion And the said deponent further saith That he hath a lease in the ffarme of Croane aforesaid for Twentie seven yeres yet vnexpired which is worth fourtie pownds per annum aboue the rent he payed [ ] in which he is damnifyed together <with his fine> [ ] three hundred pownds Of [ ] And he alsoe saith that he payed for a ffyne [ ] for the [ ] of [ ] [fourtie] pownds and that he hath [ ] in the [ ] And alsoe saith That he hath a lease in a tenement called Tullagh in the said countie of Tipperarie for fyve & twentie pounds yeares yett vnexpired and is worth ten pownds per annum aboue the rent he payed for the same & value to be worth [ ] seaunty pownds [ ] that he hath bestowed [ ] made then euer he made of thereof The totall some of this the deponents losses amounteth to one Thousand seaven nine hundred [ ] & [ ] twenty two pownds Eighteen shillings & nyne pence ten shill: he sayth that his cattle and other liuing goodsof Caperquin were lost by the Rebells that came to take the said Caperquin <C> as Richard Butler of Kilkash in county of Tipperary Esquire a reputed Leiutenant Generall among the rebells; Theobald Purcell alias Baron Loughma of the said com Esquire Sir Nicholas Welsh knight of BalliCurroge in county of waterford knight and Nicholas Poore of Kilballikilly in same county Esquire Patrick Eger & Clement Gough gentleman of Kilmanagh in the said County & Alexander Pooke of Tickinkorta in said county Esquire with diuers others whose names he knoweth not to the number of 12 or 13 hundred he also sayth that the principall of the Rebells that causd the burning of his houses in Caperquin were Capt: John Sherlock of Matrell in county of waterford Esquire & Capt: Edmund ffennell late of Clonmell & John ffitzGerald [ ] of ffarnan in county of waterf: gentleman he also sayth that his houshold goods <horses & corne at Croane> were lost by means of Tho: Prendergast of Kilgany county of waterf: gentleman He also sayth that Cornet John Trauers Cornet to the Lord Dungaruans troope was killd by <D> ffennell & his company about twelfetide last by Knocknarrow in county of waterf & William ffreshwater husb: of & Henry Rippon blacksmith & William the miller all of the Garrisone towne of Capperquin and John Brazington of the same yeoman gentleman: all were killd by the reb a little after C hristmas last by fennell & his followers in the way bet Knocknarrow & Caperquin; and Sam: Maynard Co of Curryglasse Esquire was killd vpon the lands of Bewly by Richard [st?] Harny as is credibly reported on the 3d day of July last in the fight there bet the Lord of Brohills horse & foote company and bet the ffote & horse of the Rebbells whereof John ffitz Thomas Gerald of Kilminnin in county of waterf: Esquire comaunded the horse & Thomas mc Cragh of Currinaslydy in said county gentleman comaunded the ffoote he also sayth that John ffitz Gerald of mc Garret of Ballygolane in county of waterf: yeoman being takn & put in the prison of Capperquin and vpon a report that there

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was a shipp come into wexford with 24 peices of ordinance & ammunition for the rebbells, did instantly vpon the same hold vp his hands & did zealously speake these words [ ] Deo gratias, deo gratias and further he cannot depose
Hugh Croker
Jurat coram nobis 15o Aug:
1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis

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Hugh Croker the Elders
Exam
Waterford

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