Deposition of John Meale

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John Meale late of Anaghbeg in the parish of Dunagh barony of Bunratty and wit h in the County of Clare husbandman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of his Maiesties Comission to vs & others directed (beareing date the 5th day of march Anno domini 1641) concerning the losses robberies & spoiles since this rebellion comitted vpon the Brittish & protestants within the Province of Munster &c deposeth and saith That vpon the 12th day of December 1641 or therabouts the deponent lost was robbed forceably dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vzt worth 44 li.
Of cowes heifers one horse & one coult & swine to the value of sixteene pounds ten shillinges Of houshould stuffe linen woollen & weareing apparell to the value of Twenty pounds Of corne in the house & garden fruites to the value of seaven pounds Of corne in ground to the value of Twenty pounds shillin g es The totall of hi s losses amounts to foure & fort ie pounds. The deponent he further saith that vpon the 22th of December as aboue mencioned John mc Nemara of Oshonarra in the said County gentleman & Jeffry Bourke of the same gentleman comanding at [ ] least two hundred persons in armes late at night assaulted this deponents house at Anaghbegg aforesaid & then & there forceably tooke away this deponents Cattle & goods & likewise stripped naked this deponent & his wife Sara Meale & his three children wherof the said Sara dyed & the said children dyed through the extremity of could The deponent further saith that the vndernamed persons English & protestants liueing at Anaghbegg aforesaid aboute the same time were likewise

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<B> robbed of all their goods & Chattles (by the hands & meanes of the said Macnemara & Bourk) namely vizt ffrances Wilkinson of the same yeoman John Norman of the same husbandman: William Pitts of the same husbandman William Cullyver of the same shoomaker Thomas Edwards of the same weauer Emanuell Caple of the same husbandman George Caple of the same husbandman George Morgan of the same husbandman Roger Brice of the same husbandman & Edward Derby of Clancadry in the said County husbandman & further he deposeth not
John [mark] Meales
marke
Jurat coram nobis
viijo marty 1642
Phil: Bisse
Ric Williamson

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John Meals examination
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