Deposition of Roger Beere

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Roger Beere late of Towne & parish of Rathcormc & barony of Barrymore & within the County of Corke tanner (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth and saith That on or aboute Candlemas last & since the begining & by meanes of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the values following vizt value of 174 li.
Of tanned hides & barque at Rathcormc aforesaid to the value of one hundred pounds The deponent saith that he was expelled & driuen away from his said farme & house where he left in Corne in ground which he conceaues to be lost to to the value of twelue pounds Hee likewise saith t h at he hath a lease of a parcell of land in Rathcormc aforesaid for foure & thirtie yeeres to come woorth Coibus annis fortie shillings per annum wherin he is damnified the sume of twenty pounds Of another lease of three Tenements & a tanyard in Rathcormucke afores a id for thirty yeeres to come woorth per annum aboue the landlords rent fiue pounds per annum haueing built & Improued the same which lease he valueth to be worth ( considering the said Improuement) the sume <wherin he conceaues himself damnified foure pounds> of fortie pounds Of a lease of a tenement & some land at Ahane during his life woorth 1 li. 6 s 8 per annum The totall of his losses amounts to one hundred & three score & sixteene twelue pounds The deponent saith John Roch son to the lord Roch (a reputed Capteine among the rebells) Capteine John Sherlocke of Mothill in the County of Waterford Esquire John Condon & Richard Condon of Ballydurgen in the said County of Corke gentleman & the number of twelue hundred men in company with them tooke away this deponents said Hides & barque aboute the time aboue mencioned & further he deposeth not
Roger [mark] Beeres marke
Jurat coram nobis
18 Augusti 1642
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