Deposition of Mary Smyth and Anne Smyth

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Mary Smyth wid of the towne & parish of Castlelyons & barony of Barrymore & county of Corke wid duly sworne & Examined by vertue etc: deposeth & sayth that on or about the twenty eighth of March last & diuers times since the begining of this present rebellion she lost was robbed & forceably despoyled of her goods & chattells to the seuerall values following vizt worth 600 li.
Of Cowes & horse s & young cattle to the value of two hundred & ten pownds Of houshold stuffe to the value of fowr pownds Of Corne & hay in house & haggard to the value of threescore pownds Of Corne in ground to the value of ten pownds, which she conceiueth to be lost Of the benefit of a lease of Tows moore wherein she had a tearme of aboue eighteene years yet to come worth comibus annis fifty pownds per annum in which by reason of her great expence in build ing she conceiue herselfe damnif yed three hundred pownds Of a debt to the summe of six pownds due from an Impouerisht protestant Henry Jenkins husb: she also sayth that she was robd of the aforesaid goods aboute the time aboue menconed by John & Richard Cundon of Bally <A> Mc Patrick gen & John & Richard Cundon of Baledurgin gen, & Morrice Cundon of Kilbarry gen & their followers to the number of fower hundred of the rebbells whose names she knoweth not She also sayth the totall of her losses amounts to the summe of six hundred pownds the deponent further sayth that her said husband Henry Smyth of Castlelyons aforesaid was cruelly murdered by the Cundons aforesaid by of the sixth of Aprill last at Coole nere Castle Lyons who cutt off his tongue & secrett members most inhumanely after he was dead & further she cannot depose
Mary Smith
Anne Smith
Anne Smyth in parish aforesaid deposeth vpon oath that the contents of this bill is true
Jurat coram nobis 19 Aug:
1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis

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The examination of
Mary Smith
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