Deposition of John Hodgson

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John Hodgson of Clanathall in the Kinges County gent, aged about 40 yeres sworne & examined deposeth & sayth That in the begining of the present Rebellion and since This deponent hath been by the Rebells at his seuerall farmes of Clanathall, the viccaridg of Tynnecrosse & Coolefynn & in other places within the kinges Countie forceibly deprived robbed and dispojled of his goodes Chattells & meanes Consisting of Cowes oxen and yong beasts horses geldings Mares Colts sheepe swyne Corne howsholdstuff hay debts & other proffitts & values of his farmes & other things of the value of one thowsand powndes eight hundred powndes ster & aboue And this deponent for saffty of his Liffe gathered up about 6 or 7 men & made a garrison at Clanathall aforesaid & manteined that against the Rebells for nere a twelue month And at length the deponent being sent for away from thence by Captaine Parsons & leaving 6 souldjers in the same howse and They having bin were seuerall times before the deponent s going away as formerly they often had bin in his absence about Mich elm as 1642 were hotly beseiged by the Rebells Colonell Rory Moore Colonell Art Moloy Captain Barnaby Molloy sonn to William Moloy of Balliboy in the same County Phelim Moloy his livetennant & their souldjers were [ ] at length in the deponents absence vi zt about Michas 1642 some of those Rebells <beseiged> whoe againe who setting fyre on the howse consumed and burnd the same howse & with it burned alsoe three of those souldjers vizt Peter Harrison Robert Harrison his sonn & one whose name as he thincketh was Jackson & the wiffe of the said Peter Harrison and one souldjer that gott out of the howse those Rebells hanged & shott another souldjer through the thigh: & with the said howse and people burned some of the deponents goods before mencioned: And saith that after that he this deponent was soe called away and was in the Castle of Birr That Castle alsoe had bin & was beleagured by the Rebells before named & by divers of the septs of the Carrolls Coghlans dempsies & Butlers all Irish papists of the kinges Countie or of places nere the some whose Christen names he is not able to expresse
John Hodgson
Jur 14o Jan: 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton
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John Hodgson Jur 14o Jan: 1643
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