Deposition of Richard Prudderagh

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1431
Richard Prudderagh late of Whitechurch in the Barrony of decies & Countie of Waterford Cordyner (A Brittish protestant) beinge duely sworen & examyned by vertue of &c deposeth & saith That about Christ the Twentith of Januarie last and since the beginynge of this present Rebellion in Ireland he lost and was Robbed and forceablie dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values followeinge viz t value of 117 li. 10 s. Part consisting of a debt due
Of Cowes heffers & yongne cattle att whitechurch aforesaid to the value of Nyneteen pownds & ten shillings Of household stuffe to the value of sixe pownds, of pu t tatoe Roots and other garden fruits to the value of sixe pownds, Of one sword Robbed taken from him on the high way e att Cappagh within the parish of whitechurch aforesaid by one James fz Thomas Gerrald of Ballycullane within the parish of Dungarvan & Barrony & Countie aforesaid gen then & nowe in Rebellion to the value of ten shillings, in debts due to the said deponent as followeth vizt from Gregorie ffrench John Adams Henry Smyth & others Brittish protestants nowe impouerished by meanes of the said Rebellyon seuerall somes amountinge in tot to Twentie sixe pownds debts due from Murtoe o fflin of [ ] Bowhidowne in the Countie of Waterford aforesaid husbandman nowe in Rebellion ten shillings, from Edmond [ ] of the parish of Mo de ligoe in the Barrony & Countie aforesaid husbandman Ten shillings And the said deponent further saith that he hath release in a farme called Knockroe within the parish of Modeligoe in the said Countie from David o Melcaghie of Knockenpeare in the said parish gen nowe in Rebellion for which lease & terme to come in the said farme the said David offered to give this deponent a little before the said Rebellion threescore pownds and nowe valued to be worth soe much [loste] worth and nowe lost beinge expelled there thence by the said David P[ ] o Melcaghie The totall so m me of the deponents losses amounteth to one hu ndred seventeen pownds & ten shillings The deponent saith that Teige o Laghtna of Ballylemon in the said County husbandman robbed this deponent of his garden fruites & further he deposeth that Dauid Prudderagh his father & Mary Prudderagh his mother were murthered at Goulden bridge in the County of Tipperary as he is informed but by whome he knoweth not & further he deposeth not
Richard Prudde{ }
Jurat coram nobis 16o
Augusti 1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis

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1432
Richard Pruddragh
his examination
Waterford
Re
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