Deposition of Robert Clay

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Robert Clay late of Coscam in the parish o f Dungarvan in the barony of Decies in the com of Waterford Clothier (a brittish protestant) being duly sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth & sayth that on or vpon the first of Jan: last he was robbed & spoyled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt: value of 35 li. 7 s. sterling
Of one horse Mare Colte & swine to the value of Eight pownds fiftine shill: Of hay to the value of twenty shill: Of houshould stuffe & prouision for his house to the value of thirteene pounds ten shill: Of Lin n en woollen & wearing apparell to the value of six pounds ten shill: Of ffewell for fyreing to the value of fifty shill: Of Implements for his shopp & trade to the value of thre e pounds Of garden fruits to the value of ten shill: He further sayth he was expelled & driuen away from his house & a touck ing mill together with foure Ake rs of land therevnto adioyneing wherein he had an estate ffor life worth forty shill: per annum aboue the Landlords rents which she valueth to be worth eight pounds The totall of his losses amounts to thrity fiue pounds seauen shill: ster: he further sayth he was robbed by Garrett Newgent of Coscam in the parish of Dungarvan in the aforesaid com gen: & his followers whose names he knoweth not The deponent <&> further sayth that Sir Nicho: Welch of Ballycaroge in the said Com knight & his followers stole & caryed away certaine English mens Cattle & as they were driueing of them by an house nere wherein the deponent was ffaine to hyde himselfe for shelter his wife & one child being one James mc Thomas his house of Coscam in the parish of Dungarvan Mellard heareing the droue of Cattle going by the aforesaid James mc Thomas now in actuall rebellion & his company ran out & tooke of the prey an English heiffer & presently killed it He further sayth that one Martin Bosten with his wife & three children were stripped by the rebells but knowes not whome they were that stripped them & lastly this deponent sayth that one Peeter Anthony of Comro in the said Com gen: his wife & children formerly a professed protestant but since this rebellion turned Papists and further he cannot depose
Robert Clay
Jurat coram nob:
22o Juny 1642
Tho: Badnedge
Phil: Bisse
Hen: Rugge
Thomas Ellwell

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Robert Clayes Examinacon
C:
Waterford
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Reu
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