Deposition of Jeremy Wise

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Jeremy Wise late of Loghdohin in the parish of Reske & barony of Midle third & within the County of Waterford yeoman gentleman (a brittish protestant) being duely sworne and examined by vertue of &c deposeth and saith That on or aboute St Thomas day last at night being the one & twentieth day of december last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost & was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt value of 357 li. 16 s. 8 d.
Of Cowes heiffers yeerlings horses & mares sheepe & swine at Loghdohin aforesaid to the value of two hundred one & thirtie pounds six shillings and eight pence . Of houshould stuffe to the value of fifteene pounds . Of linnene and weareing apparell to the value of twenty pounds Of hay and Corne in the haggard & house to the value of fiue and twenty pounds . The deponent further saith that he was expelled & driuen away from his said farme where he left in Corne in ground to the value of six pounds . Of ready mony ten shillings . Hee was dis saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed of his said farme wherin he had a lease of nyne & twenty yeeres to come, woorth to be sett aboue the landlords ten pounds per annum, the same being well Improued with fenceing ditchinge & incloseing which lease considering the said Improuement this deponent valueth to be woorth three score pounds . The totall of his losses amounts to three hundred fiftie seaven pounds sixteene shillings and eight pence & that by

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<B> by the hands and meanes of one Grant lieuing neere to three mile bridge, a reputed Capteine of the rebells & his forces. The deponent saith that Thomas Coote ffrancis Power smith wh o made halbords & pikes for the rebells John Collins sadler that makes sadles likewise for them Lawrence Wade Inkeeper Thomas Rogers ffarmer, Mathewe Johnson Carpenter (whoe makes cariadges for the ordinance of the rebells) John Hudson Joiner Richard Strevett Cooper Ralph Mulleneux smith, Joseph the hatter all of Waterford were all English protestants formerly, but since this rebellion turned papists & further he canot depose
Jeremie Wyse
Jurat coram nobis
16o July 1642
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell

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Waterford
The examination of
Jeremy Wise
355
Reu
45