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Michaell Penock of Turrock in the Barony of Athlone in the County of Roscoman gent within the Province of Connoght being duly sworne and examyned saith: That since Michelmas 1641 (about which tyme the Rebellion in Ireland did apparently breake forth) he hath by meanes of the said Rebellion Lost and is dampnified in Cattell vizt In sheepe about fiue hondred pounds, In Cowes and swyne two hondred & eight pounds, In plowe horses & mares threescore seauen pounds, In ryding horses & gueldings fowrscore fiue pounds, In Corne in his Haggard and in his house One hondred pounds, In Corne in ground fiftie pounds, In Rent and proffitt of ffiue Quarters of land & more for one yeare & a halfe begon Michelmas 1641 and endid Easter 1643 Two <{}0 li. per annum {fut}ure profits> hondred fortie seauen pounds & is like to be deprived of the future proffits of his lands vntill a peace be stablished worth Cl li. per annum In householdstuff & vtinsells of house, Apparrell and bookes Two hondred threescore eightene pounds, In houses burnt at Turrock & other his villages ffowrscore pounds, In a water Mill burnt, twenty pounds, In a Pigeon house burnt with a great stock or flight of Pigeons, Tenne pounds; In all the some of O one <{}5 li. present losse> thousand six hondred ffortie fiue pounds ster. And the Rebells do daily threaten the demollishing of his Castle which cost him the building at Least Three hondred pounds) In which former somme is included certein Cattell, household stuff & apparell of his sonnes Michaell Penock the younger who did Cohabit in his house with him. The septes of the Natiues who did thus Robbry & dispoyle his Estate, are the Kellies, the ffallons, the Naghtens, the Keoghes, the mc Eleas, with diuers others, who are so generally Nationally malitious against the English, that in their comon speeche of them, they call them protestants deuills & English Dogges and for
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and the more to incite one the other, by the lettres they write, to lay what affliction they could vpon the English for that they are were not to haue, nor should haue any mercy amongst them, some of which lettres with those words (amongst other dangerouse & cruell aduises) came to the hands & view of him this deponent.
And further this deponent (on the behalfe of Talbott Osbaldeston a graundchild of his lyuing now with him) doth declare deposeth that he the said Talbot hath ben robbed and is dampnified by meanes of this Rebellion, in the somm{e} <56 li.> of ffiftie six pounds str. in an other stock of sheep & Cowes; In all the somme of One thousand seauen hondred one pounds str.
And as touching the Cruelty of the abouesaid Rebells he saith that by the procurement of som of them, by name, <A> Callogh oKelly of Rowerkilly and Hugh oKelly of Torpa{n} there was murthered and vnmercifully buchered one John Pryce an english man after quarter giuen vnto him by them, so as the said septs or most of them to this deponents knowledge are most perfidious & faithbreakers in what they promis vnto the English Nation by word or Othe. And farther deposeth that the weomen of that Cuntry & Irish nation wer very cruel inhuma{ne} and strong inciters of mischeife
Mich: Penock
Jurat 19o Ap 1643
John Sterne.
Hen: Brereton.

Roscomon
Michaell Pennock Jur
19o Aprilis 1643
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