Deposition of Robert Southwell

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Robert Southwell of Kinsale in the barony of Kynellea & within the County of Corke gentleman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute the 20th of March last and since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and dispoyled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vzt value of 119 li.
Of Cowes to the value of three pounds. Of debts amounting to the sume of six & ffortie pounds, due from William Noades of Ardagh in the said County yeaman , William Long of Baltymore in the said County yeoman merchant Rich: Ridgway of Cowlecarran in the said in the said County carrier John Wilton of the Cittie of Dublin millwright debts due from Thomas Meagh late of Kinsale in the said County gentleman. But in regard the said Thomas Myagh is out in actuall rebellion & the rest protestants vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them him . He further saith that he lost this yeere the beneffitt of maulting occasioned by this rebellion the su me of fiftie pounds. He alsoe s a i th that he lost in sundry expences imediatly occationed by this rebellion as the sole cause therof the sume of Twenty pounds. The totall of his losses amounts to one hundred & nynteene pounds besides the losse of the beneffitt of his office of customer of the Porte of Kinsale And the Creekes thervnto belonging woorth Communibus annis one hundred pounds per an n um which is left to consideration. & further he cannot depose.
<Ro Southwells Examination>
Ro: southwell
Jurat coram nob: 11o Oct: 1642
Phil: Bisse
Tristram WhetCombe

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