Deposition of John Spencer
- Reference: MS 811, fols 095r-095v
- County: Wicklow
- Date: 5/3/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Robbery
- How to Cite
fol. 95r
1306
John Spencer late of Kilneclony in the Barony of Talbotstowne and in the County of Wicklowe gent duly sworne and examined deposeth That on & since the twentyeth daie of November last past or at some other times since the beginning of this rebellion in Ireland hee hath beene robbed dispoiled (and expelled from) and of his goodes and Chattles in the seuerall Counties of Wicklow and Kilkenny & Queenes County his goods and Chattles to the values following vizt of Cowes, horses and sheepe to the value of one hundred eightie and one pounds, of Corne, hay houshould stuffe and other houshould provision for tie twenty and fower pounds & from that which he had layd out & expended in building and improvement on the land Kilneclony aforesaid the somme of twenty and five poundes laid out & in building & improvement on the land of Damastowne in the County of Kilkenny aforesaid the somme of twentie and three pounds, in corne H in the ground twelue pounds in hay and corne there worth seaven pounds of of Cowes and mares vpon the said land ffiftie and fower pounds, laid out in the improvement of a ffarme in the Queenes County called Killenny and of the benefitt of the lease of the said lands of Killenny thereof worth twenty and fower pounds amounting in all to the somme of three hundred and fiftie pounds ster, besides severall persons in this kingdome stand indebted vnto this deponent in the severall sommes of money some of amounting in the whole to sixe and forty pounds which debts this deponents verily beleiveth hee shall never receive in <396 li.> regard the persons indebted are spoiled of their meanes and expelled from theire places of aboad by the rebells, And this deponent verily beleiveth that hee this deponent was dispoiled of his estate in the County of Wicklow <A> by Morrice Bane alias Nowlan and his confederates and other rebells of his companie whose names hee knoweth not, But by whome hee was soe dispoiled of his estate in the County of Kilkenny hee this deponent cannot certainly learne but by the rebells they being most of them vpp in rebellion in those partes
John Spencer
Jur 5o Martij 1641
Randall Adams
Roger Puttocke
fol. 95v
1307
58 Wickloe 62
John Spencer: 5o Marcij 1641
Intr
20 Nov
62
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Randall Adams
Roger Puttock