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Deuereux Sprat Late of the towne & parish of Traley in the bar: of Terhonack within the Com of Kerry Cler: a brittish protestant duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue &c. deposeth & saith that about the 1t of ffebr: Last was tweluemonth & diuers timers since the begining of this present rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following Vizt worth 237 li. Part consisting of debts owing by
Of horses to the value of fiue pownds Of houshould stuffe to the value of thirty pownds Of plate to the value of thirty pownds, Of ready mony to the value summe of six pownds the totall of his losses amounteth to the value of Of Debts to the value summe of One hunderd threescore & six pownds, which e re this rebellion w ere esteemed good debts but now become desperate by reason some of the debtours are Impouerisht protestants ar John Blener Hasset gentleman Thomas Turner merchant and the reste Papists & rebbells and ar John Nagle of the Dingle bough merchant, & therefore the deponent knoweth not any way how to gett any satisfaccion from him any of them . the totall of his losses amounts to the value of two hundred thirty seauin pounds besids the losse ever since the be g ining of this rebellion of the benefit of his two parsonages of Kilgobin & Stradbally his Chauncellorship of Ardfert in the said Com worth which were worth coibus anis one hundred pownds per annum, which he leaueth to consideracion that & further he cannot depose

Devoreux Spratt
Jurat coram nobis 14th June 1643
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell

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