Deposition of Augustine Kingesmill

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Augustine Kingesmill of Barryscourte in the parish of Caritewhill Barony of Barrymore & within the County of Co u n [ ] Corke clerke (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined before vs by vertue of a Comission vnder the broade seale of this Kingdome (beareing date at Dublin the 5th day of March 1641 concerneing the robberies and spoiles lately comitted by the rebells vpon the Brittish and Protestants in the Province of Munster &c. deposeth and saith. That vpon the 25th of december 1641 or therabouts he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values folloing vzt. worth 600 li. part consisting in debts due from theis rebells following vizt
Of cowes horses and sheepe to the value of forty pounds. Of houshould=goods & prouision to the value of Twenty pounds. The deponent saith that he is dispossessed of two seuerall leases, one of the parsonadge of Carritowhill aforesaid woorth de Claro to this deponent fiftie pounds per annum, thother of Ballintobber in the said County for diuers yeeres yeett vnexpired wherevpon this deponent layed out much chardges in buylding & otherwise, In both which leases he conceaues himselfe damnified one hundred foure score and ten pounds. Of debts amounting to the sume of three hundred & fiftie pounds due from Cormack mc Donogh Cartie of Courtebracke in the said County Esquire Richard fitz Gerrald of Rashellane in the said County gentleman

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& others. And although he accounted the same good debts before this rebellion, yeett in regard <B> the said Cormack mc Carty and Richard fitz Gerrald are nowe in open and actuall rebellion & the rest of his creditors protestants vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion. Therefore the deponent is not likely to gett any satisfaction from them. The totall of his losses amounts to six hundred pounds in goods and Chattles, besides the losse of the benefitt of his Church liueings for the presente worth Communibus annis two hundred pounds per annum which he leaues to consideration. The deponent lastly saith that Ellen Carpenter wife to Richard Carpenter of Carritowhill aforesaid merchant being formerly reputed a professed protestant is since this rebellion turned papist. & further he deposeth not.
Augustine Kingesmill.
Jurat coram nobis
25o January 1642
Phil: Bisse
Hen: Rugge

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