Deposition of James Pace

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James Pace late of Clonekilty in the parish of Kilgarriffe & barony of Carbry & within the County of Corke shoemaker (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith. That on aboute the tenth of ffebr: last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vzt value of 32 li.-9 s.
Of houshould goods weareing apparell bookes leather bootes & shooes to the value of nyne & thirty one twenty Twenty pounds. two pounds & eight shillings. losse of a house now demolisht to the value of seaun pound Of debts amounting to the summe of eight three pownds & fiftie nine shillings & ten pence as due from Richard Hungerford Arthur ffreake & his servants Thomas Linchcome & his servant Thomas Linchcome protestants vtterly dissenabled by this rebellion therefore he canot gett satisfaction from them. The totall of his losses amounts to thirtie one two pounds e ight nine shillings & ten pence. He sayth that he was robbd by Joan Barry of the Muckrus wid: & diuers others to the number of one hundred rebbells men & women, who surpriz’d the deponents in his house. the same day one Tho: Barry scoolemaster of Clonikilty, tooke away two trunks of cloaths, two brasse kettells, fowr caddoes, a sword, one brasse skillet, with diuers other small things, who pretending to preserue the said goods for the deponent from the rebbells, still detayned them from him, only since sent the deponent 6 d. for in areare He also sayth that his wife susan about midsomer last was murderd by the rebbells nere Clonikilty he also sayth And that John Austin Sauill vintner Robert Sauil o John Austin Tanner Robert Sauill vintner, William Bodle dayry-man his wife & two children Edward Mills, his wife & towe children William Strangewayes gentleman John Weare & his wife & three children & William styman sadler were all <all of Clonikilty> stript by the rebbells vnknowne about the tenth of ffebr: last. he lastly sayth that the said Tho: B & further he cannot depose
James Pace
Jurat coram nob: 7 Octob: 1642
Phil: Bisse
Ro: southwell

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