Deposition of Peregrine Banaster

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Peregrine Ban e ster Banastre late of ffarinsesry parish of disertferges barony of Carbery & within the County of Corke Esquire Esquire (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith That on or aboute the later end of January last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt value of 2786 li.
Of Cowes oxen steeres horses mares sheepe & swine to the value of two hundred & sixteene pounds . O f hushouldstuffe to the value of Twenty pounds Of Implements of husbandry to the value of ten pounds . . Of hay and Corne in the haggard to the value of three score pounds . The deponent saith that he was expelled and driuen away from his f arme & house where he left in corne in ground nowe lost by meanes of this rebellion to the value of fortie pounds. The deponent saith that by meanes of this presente rebellion in Ireland he was dispossessed of the lands of ffarinsesry & other lands therevnto adioyneing wherin he hath a lease of six and fortie yeeres to come or therabouts woorth to this deponent one two hundred & eleven fourtine twenty pounds haueing layed out in buylding & other necessary Improuements a greate sume of mony in this lease he conceaues himselfe damnified Two thousand pounds. Of another

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farme of the lands of Glanbracke in the said County haueing a lease therin of one & Twenty yeeres to come woorth aboue the landlo rds rent fiue & thirtie pounds he conceaues that bef ore this rebellion this lease is woorth to be bought & sould one hundred & fiftie pounds likewise this deponent was dispossessed of the lands of Corrycrouely in the said County wherin he hath a lease of fiue & fortie yeeres to come woorth Coibus annis aboue the lands lords rent six pounds wherin he is damnified three score pounds. Of debts amounting to the summe of foure score pounds due from diuers English men some robbed and others D yed & vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion therefore this deponent cannot gett satisfaction from them. Likewise this deponent saith that som that he procured out of his Maiesties Courte of words and liueryes the ward shipp of the body & goods lands of Teig mc dauid Crowly of kynethbeg in the said County nowe lately his Maiesties ward & nowe in open actuall rebellion he conceaues to be damnified in loo seing the benefitt of the said ward shipp by meanes of this rebellion one hundred & fiftie pounds The totall of his losses amounts to Two thousand seaven hundred foure score & six pounds The deponent saith that by his said Cattle were taken away by Teig downy alias Carty of Teig dunmannaway in the said County gentleman aboute the 12th

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Of January last & their complices, whoe burnt this deponents house & forty forty other houses, theraboutes aboute the later end of August las t & further he deposeth

Perig: Banastre
Jurat coram nobis
7o 9bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Richard ffrench

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Peregrine Banasters Examination
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