Deposition of Augustine Hicks

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2093

Augustine Hickes late of Shancloghane in the parish of Templemartin & barony of kinelmeky & within the County of Corke yeoman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute Candlemas last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt
Of Cowes heiffers oxen bulls horses mares & colts sheepe & swine at Shancloghan aforesaid to the value of three score & seventeene pounds & fifteene shillings Of houshould stuffe linnen woollen & weareing apparell to the value of fortie shillings pounds Of hay and corne in the haggard & house to the value of twenty pounds which he conceaues to be lost Of Corne left in ground vpon the said land which he conceaues to be lost to the value of sixteene pounds. The deponent saith that by meanes of this present rebellion in Ireland he was dispossessed of his said farme wherin he hath a lease of nynteene yeeres to come woorth to this deponent aboue the landlords rent ten pounds per annum haueing buylt & Improued the same wherin he is damnified one hundred pounds. The totall of his losses amounts to two hundred & eighteene pounds fifteene shillings. He saith that he was robbed at night by the rebells aboute the time aboue mencioned but their names he knoweth not He saith that in Aprill last when the lord of kinelmeaky besiedged the Castle of dondonell the vndernamed persons English & protestants were killd & shott out of the said Castle vizt Martin Coleman a herdeman John Mokes Cooper & John Woods turner all of kilbrogan in the said County Likewise at the siedge of the Castle of

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2094

Cargynasse Henry Trauers of Kilbragan aforesaid husbandman & another whose name he knoweth not were shott & killed out of the said Castle. & further he deposeth not that he was shott himself out of the said <Jurat co r am> Castle through the thigh whereby this deponent feareth to be is dissenabled in his calling & further he deposeth not

Augustine [mark] Hicks marke
Jurat coram nobis
14o 7bris 1642
Tho: Graye Dec:
Phil: Bisse

The examination of
Augustine Hickes