Deposition of John Polden
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John Polden late of Castletowne in the parish of Kin [ ealsh ] , baroney of East Carbray, & county of Corke gentleman, duly sworne , & examined by vertue of his Maiestyes Commission etc. deposeth & sayth that about the 15th of Jan: last past he lost was robbed & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following vizt value of 287 li. part consisting ofOf Cowes, horses, one mare, one gelding to the value of twenty two pownds. Of houshold goods & shopp commodityes to the value of fiueteene pownds. Of the losse of the benefitt of his shop house to the value of fifty pownds. Of debts to the summe of one hundred pownds: which ere this rebellion were esteemed good debts & now become desperate by reason some of the debtours are imp o uerisht protestants by means of this rebellion, which whose names he cannot now remember by reason his sho & the rest debts from Rebells out in actuall rebellion, as Teig O Downy mcCarty of Downemanowy gentleman and Teig O Norse of the same gentleman Donnell <A> Mc Donnough of O Glannough of the Cappein gentleman Donnell Oge o Donouane of TempleDrinagh gentleman John Sunners Summers of the Bantry yeaman and & William Summers of the same yeaman Awnliffe Oge of Balliuoorney yeaman Morris O Hearley of the same yeaman & some othrs whose names he cannot now remember, the totall of his losses amounts to the value of one hundred eighty seau’n pownds : also he is damnifyed by mean s of this rebellion in to the value of in the [ driuing ] of his trade to the value of one hundred pownds the totall of his losses amounts to the value of two hundred eighty seau’n pownds [ whi ] And sayth And that he was robbd by the rebbells whose names he knoweth not: he also sayth that Henry Vavasor of Castletowne gentleman & Allis his wife, Edward Beuill of Eniskeene yeaman & his wife were stript by the rebbells about Candlemas last. and further he deposeth not.
John Polden
Jurat coram nobis 23o Sept: 1642
Tho: Graye Dec
Phil: Bisse
fol. 165v
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John Poldens Examination
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