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870
Thomas Groue late of Rochestowne in the barony of Iff a & Offa & within in the Com of Tipperary gentleman duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue of deposeth & sayth that about the 1t day of Jan: 1641, & diuers thimes since the beginning of this present rebellion in Ireland, he lost was robbed of his goods & chattells, to the seuerall values following vizt worth 6790 li. part consisting of debts owing by
Of Cowes horses, mares sheepe & swine to the value of three thousand seau’n hundred and twenty pownds. Of houshouldstuffe to the value of two hundred & fourty pownds. Of money & plate to the summe & value of fo sixty pownds. Of Corne & hey in house & haggard to the value of fourhundred & fourty pownds. Of Corne in ground to the value of one hundred pounds. Of debts to the summe of o ne hundred and twenty pownds which ere this rebellion were esteem ed good debts but now become desperate by reason the debtours are papists and Rebells rebbells, as Tibbot Butler of Knocklough in said Barony gentleman James Walsh of Ragherhonane in said barony gentleman Tho: Butler of [Kehantime] in said barony gentleman James Butler of the Roushagh in said Barony gentleman John Butler of as vizt James Prendergast of Mullagha in said barony of Esquire Edmond Kriton of Ardfrimagh in said barony gentleman & therefore this deponent knoweth not any way how to gett any satisfaccion from any of them. Also he sayth that And by means of this rebellion he hath lost the benefit of certayne lease s , as of his lease of Goldenbridg e in said Com: wherein he had a tearme of twenty years t o come worth ere the beginning of this rebellion aboue the landLords rent two hundred pownds per annum, wherein he conceius himselfe damnifyed in the value of a thousand pownds. also of another lease of Rochestowne aforesaid wherein he had a tearme of one & twenty years, wort h aboue the landLords rent seau nty pownds per annum, damnifyed herein four hundred pownds: also of the two lease s of the ffarry, & the in the Com of Corke wher ein one he had a lease tearme of eighteen e years to come, worth aboue the landLords rent one hundred fourty pownds per annum; and of another, hauing a tearm e of fiue years yet to come, worth aboue the landLords rent Sixty pownds per annum; damnifyed in both these to the value of three hundred & fifty pownds. also of a leas e in of T ampullybricke & Shanakill in Com of Waterford, wherein he had a tearme of twenty nine years to come worth aboue the landLords rent fourty pownds per annum, which in which he is damnifyed in the value of two hundred pownds also of another lease of Cahirdougen in Com of Corke wherein he had a tearme of three years & u pwards, worth ere the beginning of this rebellion seaunty pownds per annum, damnifyed herein to the value of one hundred and sixty pownds: The totall of his losses amounts to the summe of six thousand seau’n hundred and ninety pownds. Also he sayth that a part of his Cowes & hay at Rochestowne to the number of fourty were tak’n away by Capt Tibbott Butler of Knockloughtough barony of Iffa etc in Com of Tipperary gentleman James Walsh of Ratherhonane in said barony gentleman & Thomas Butler of CastleKyne in said barony gentleman James Butler of the Roorskragh in said barony gentleman & John Butler of Cloghbrady in said bar: gentleman about the time aforesaid he also sayth that another part of his Cowes at Rochestowne aforesaid were to the number of twenty were tak’n away by James Butler of Durreluskane nere ffeather in Com of Tipperary ge Esquire about the time aforesaid he also sayth And that his horses, part of his sheepe & swine were tak’n away by the same persons that tooke away his cowes at Rochestowne at the time aforesaid. also his houshouldstuffe was tak’n away by the Lord of Cahir & his Company about the beginning of May last who also tooke away some of his horses, money & plate & Corne & he also sayth that the Lord of Cahir hath possesst himselfe of his said lease of Rochestowne, James Butler of Durreluskane hath possesst himselfe of his lease of Gouldenbridge. Richard Cushing of Cushingstowne gentleman hath possesst himselfe of his lease of the ffarry: He also sayth that on the first day of Jan: 1641, the deponent was beseidged in his Castle of Rochestowne aforesaid by Capt: Tibbot Butler of Knockloughtough aforesaid, Capt: James Walsh: Capt: Tho: Butler Capt. James Butler. Capt: John Butler, & their seuerall companyes to the number of 400d Rebbells who closely beseidged him for the space of fiue weeks. during which time he saw from out of the Castle diuers men of note oftn’ coming to & going from the rebbells, as Edmund Kriton of Cloghardin in barony of Issa & Offa & Com of Tipperary gentleman Tho: Butler of Ardfinnan offa
