Deposition of Thomas Lucas

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968
Thomas Lucas late of Castlebridge in the parish of Arkollum in the County of Wexford a souldier vnder the comaund of Sir Arthur Loftus Knight sworne & examined deposeth and saith, That by meanes of this present Rebellion hee is expelled deprived or otherwise lost the seuerall parcells hereafter mentioned & expressed (vizt.)
<1> The said Thomas Lucas hath at Castlebridg aforesaid lost & beene dispoyled of a stocke of Sheepe horses & other Cattle consisting of the number of, 100 English sheepe 60 English cowes, 22 horses and mares amounting to the su m me value of Two hundred thirtie & five poundes or thereabouts All which stocke was about the xijth & xiiijth dayes of November last driven & taken away from his ffarmes called Castlebridge <A.> & Knottane neere the towne of Wexford, By Bryan macTeage & his Morish his sonne both of CastleEllis gentleman Arthur Synot of the parish of Screene gentleman Leonard Synot of Arkollum gentleman, Garrat mc Daniell of the parish of Carrick gent & vndersheriffe, Phillip Rosetur of the parish of [Ir ttraman] gent all in the County of Wexford aforesaid & divers in their company whose names he knows not
<2> And hath also there lost in houshold goods, ready money, & losse of Haye the value of fforty pounds or thereabouts of which his wife <B> was stript & spoyled by Redmond [ ] ffelum mac Edmond gent Clarke & foster brother to Sir Tho: Esmond & by Edward Keaton & Richard Heyes his servants all of the parish of Arkallum & Wherevpon she being constreyned to seeke for her releefe & for five Children went aboard a Shipp at Wexford to goe for England and were all drowned within the harbour there with many other passengers about the latter end of January last (as this deponent is credibly informed)
<3> And this deponent hath also lost in debts & rents due to him to the value of 80 li. sterling the debtors & Tennants Robbed & spoyled & not able to make satisfaccion Besides the losse of xiiij li. disbursed & paid before hand to Sir Thomas Esmond for halfe a yeares rent of certeyne grounde of which hee made noe benefitt the In all the somme of ffourscore & fourteene One hundred poundes & five shillings or thereabouts:
<4> And is deprived and dispoiled of The Lease of a ffarme in the County of Corke for 14 yeares yet to come really worth fforty poundes at the least:
<415 li.-5 s.- 0 d> His whole losse by the present rebellion amounting to the Sume of ffowre hundreth and fifteen Pownds five shillings sterling:
Signum Tho [mark] Lucas
Jurat: the last of ffoe: 1641
William Aldrich
Roger Puttocke

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969.

35 Wexford
Tho: Lucas vlt ffebr 1641
Jur
12 & 14 Nov
Cert
Intr

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