Deposition of Thomas Andrew

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Thomas Andrew late of Ballinaghera in the parish of ogonela Barron [ed] of Tullo in the County of Clare gent duly a brittish protestant duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c deposeth & saith That about the twenty fifteenth day of december Last past he lost was robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt worth 237 li. 15 s.
Of Cowes, horses, Mares, yeerlings, Calues & ste e res Bulls & sheepe to the value of three score & five pounds Of houshould stuff & prouition to the value of twenty foure pound s Of impliments of husbandrie to the value of six pounds seuenteene shill & six pence Of Corne & haye in haggard to the value of seuenteene pounds Of Corne ready threshed to the value of three pounds foure shill Of Bookes to the value of foure pounds nine shill Of sil uer Instruments of Chirurgery to the value of foure seaven pounds 5 s . Of Phis i call druggs potts & glasses belonging thervnto to the value of thirteene pounds Of readie money the sume of twenty nine pounds Of plate & jewells to the value of six seaven pound{s} Of brasse & pewter to the value of eleaven pounds Of debts amounting to the summe of one hundred fourty six pounds which ere this rebellion were accounted good debts but now become desperate by reason the debtors some of them are impouerished protestants by meanes of this rebellion vizt Richard Lairnd of Newcastle in the County of Limerick Thomas Bastard of ogenela in the County of Clare & others therfor this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them
The deponent saith that by meanes of this rebellion he is dispossessed of the seuerall leases following vizt of a lease of the land of Ballinagh era wherin he had a tearme of for two & twenty yeares to come worth six pounds a yeare aboue the land lords rent herin he conceaues himself damnified to the value of fiftie pounds O nother lease of a house & gardens att Limerick wherin he had a lease of one one & twenty yeares to come worth fiftie shill a yeare aboue the Landlord rent where he is damnified to the value of sixteene pounds . of another lease of the land of knoc k alisl e ane in the County of Limericke & two other leases wherin he is damnified at {l}east fortie pounds

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The [ sume ] totall of s his losses amounts to the sum e of foure hundred thirtie seaven pounds fifteen shillinges This deponent saith that John Bourke of Cahirballymabroony in the said County Esquire pretending much acquaintance & freindshipp with this examinat perswaded him to send his goods to his custody which this deponent accordingly hath don & when the Country began to rise in all partes this deponent thought to conway his goods to some salfer place & <A> comeing to the said John Bourkes house & demanded his goods & beeing deliuered vnto him this deponent had seuerall cariedges to cary the sayd goods away noe sooner this deponent came away from the said Bourkes house but the said John Bourkes wife Honora & her sons John & Donogh mc Nemara & their servants came & assaulted this deponent presently & tooke away his said goods notwithstanding that the said John himself was appointed provost marchall by the right honourable the Earle of Thomond in the County whoe then did but absent himself in cellor as hee belieues while his wife & servants & children were robbing of this deponent He likewise saith that Donogh oge o Mollony of Ballymolowny in the said County yeoman aboute the time above mencioned came & assaulted this deponent in the high way & in rebellious maner tooke away from this deponent certaine goods to the value of fortie pounds & further he deposeth not
Tho: Andrewe B
Jurat coram nobis
10 9 bris 1642

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