Deposition of Richard Pearl

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Richard Peard late of the Towne & parish of Coole & barony of kynnatallon & with in the County of Corke husbandman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by ver tue of his Maiesties Comission b earing date &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute the 6th of Aprill last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceabled dispoyled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt worth 288 li. 10 s. by
Of Cowes heiffers horses & swine at Coole aforesaid to the value of three score pounds ten shillings. Of houshould stuffe one fowleing peece & a rapier to the value of eight pounds. Of Corne in the haggard to the value of Twenty pounds. The deponent saith that by meanes of this presente rebellion in Ireland he is dispossessed of the seuerall farmes followeing vizt. Of the lands of Ballyrice wherin he hath a lease of eighteene yeeres to come woorth to this deponent yeerly aboue the Landlords rent eight pounds per annum haueing payed fortie pounds fy n e for the same his enterest in the said lease he valueth to be woorth foure score pounds. Of another lease of the lands of Ballynelly in the said County woorth yeerly to this deponent ten pounds for seaven yeeres yett to come which lease he valueth to be woorth twenty pounds Of another farme in Coole wherin he hath a lease of fifteene yeeres to come wo o rth aboue the landlords rent eighteene pounds per annum which lease he valueth to be woorth before the begining of this rebellion the sume of one hundred pounds. The totall of his losses amounts to two hundred foure score & eight pounds ten shillinges. The deponent saith that Richard Con d on of Bally mc Patricke and Richard Condon of Ballydurgen in the said County gentlemen

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tooke away this deponents said Cattle & houshould=goods & further he deposeth not.

John [mark] Peards
Jurat coram nobis
3o 7bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis

The examination of Rich: Peard
C. 419
Cork