Deposition of Thomas Turner

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Thomas Turner Late of Ballenaskillick in the parish of Balleniskillick in the Barrony of Vrigh in the & County of Kerry duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue of his Maiestyes Commission etc: deposeth and sayth, That on or about Candlemas Last, he was robbed and forceably despoyled of his goods, & chattells to the seuerall values following vizt worth 38 li.
Of his cowes, and young Cattle, and swine to the value of twenty pownds Of his corne in house to the value of fifteene shillings Of his linne n & wollen, and other houshould stuffe & and apparrell prousion to the value of ten fiue pownds
Of ready mony to the summe of seau’n pownds fiue shillings He further sayth that he was robd & forceably despoyled by the Rebells of the Barony of Vragh, whose names he knoweth not, and that he, himselfe, and wife, and child were stript by the Rebells vnknowne vnto him, nere the Castlekerran of Donkerran, and that the aforesayd summe Of 7 li. 5 s. mony was tak’n from him by the hands of Teig Oge McDonnell Oge nere Glannerogh and others in his company; and he also sayth, that George Newman, and John Newman, his Brother of Glannerogh in the parish of Kilmarerr in the County of Kerry who before were protestants, are and now since this rebellion become Papists./ and rebells, as he is informed by Dauid Hale, his son in Law who was tak’n by the rebells, and saw the sayd Newmans in Armes with them./ And further he cannot depose. The totall of his losses amount to the value and summe of thirty eight pownds

Thomas [mark[ Turnor his marke
Jurat coram nobis 14th of May
Anno Domini 1642
Nic: Philpot
Phil: Bisse
Richard ffrench

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