Deposition of Peeter Peacocke
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Peeter Peacocke late of Ardnecrogh parish of Monegehy & barony of Connelloe & within the County of lymericke yeoman yeoman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c deposeth & saith That on or aboute aboute Christmas last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to to the value of seuerall values followeing vzt value of 729 li.Of Cowes heiffers steeres yeerlinges & horses to the value of one hundred and Twenty pounds Of houshould stuffe to the value of three score pounds Of hay & Corne in the haggard to the value of one hundred & eight pounds Of Implements of husbandry to the value of twenty shillinges Of Corne in ground the last harvest lost by meanes of this rebellion to the value of Twenty pounds Of debts amounting to the sume of The deponent saith that by meanes of this presente rebellion in Ireland he was dispossessed of the said land of Ardnecrogh aforesaid wherin he hath a lease of one & twenty pounds yeeres yeett to come for which he gaue before hand one hundred & twent y pounds haueing enioyed the same but half a yeere before this rebellion & therefore he conceaues himself damnified by looseing the benefitt of the said lease at least the sume of one hundred & twenty pounds . Likewise he was dispossessed of another farme of Garrangarrae in the said County wherin he hath a lease of thirty yeeres to come & vnexpired haueing layed out in Incombe vpon the said la nd one hundred pounds a matter o f a yeere an{d}
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546halfe before this rebellion & soe much he conceaues himselfe damnified by lo oseing th e future benefitt of the said lease Part consisting Of debts amounting to the summ of two hundred pounds due from John Gibbs of the Meane in the said County gentleman John Clancy of <B> Creggard in the said County gentleman John Ready of Kcolman in the said County smith, Richard mc Morris of Ballybeggane in the said County gentleman Hugh mc Shane of Clonskae in the said County yeoman James mc Richard of Mohowny in the said County husbandman Teige o Scanekane of the same husbandman Thomas Roch of the Grange in the said County husbandman & others whose names he doth not remember likewise the vndernam{ed} persons English & protestants are indebted to this deponent in parte of thaboue sume vzt John Salmon of Gortnecehy in the said County gentleman Walter Trauers of Alliny in the s a id County gentleman Mathewe Woods of Ardag in the said County gentleman Adryan Brutny of Ballyen Adrian Brutny of Ballyell in the said Countie gent formerly a protestant but since this rebellion turned papist & Rebell in the said County gentleman formerly a protestant but since this rebellion turned papist & rebell And although he accounted the same goode debts before the begining of this rebellion yeet in regard the said English except except the said Brutny the said Brutny) are vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion & the rest of the All which said parties are out in open & actuall rebellion therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them The totall of his losses amounts to seaven hundred Twenty & nyne pounds The deponent likewise saith that <C> Edmond mc Shihy of Ballyellinane in the said County gentleman aboute the same time forceably came vpon this deponents said land & there hence droue & caryed away parte of this deponents Cattle & then & there threshed or caused to be threshed out his Corne & converted the same
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<D> To his owne vse He likewise saith that Thomas ffreeman late of Dronallin in the said County gentleman yeoman an English protestant was murthered betweene Buttevant & Miltowne in the County of Corke but by whome he was murthered he knoweth not He lastly deposeth & saith that Symon Bragson of Newcastle in the said County of lymericke butcher Thomas Phillipps of Ballyea in the said County gentleman Josias Walker of Mohowny in the said County gentleman Walter Trauers of Aghalery in the said County gentleman were all formerly reputed protestants but since this rebellion turned papists & further he deposeth not Peter Peacocke
Jurat coram nobis
26o No: 1642
Phil: Bisse
Hen: Rugge
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The examination of
Peeter Peacocke
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Limerick
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