Deposition of Richard Burnett
- Reference: MS 809, fols 256r-257v
- County: Dublin
- Date: 17/2/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Robbery
- How to Cite
fol. 256r
Rich Burnett late of the parish of Donlavan & in the towneshipp of Ternant in the Baronie of the vpper crosse in the Countie of Dublin or in the Baronie of Talbottstowne in the countie of wicklowe (it being in variance betweene both counties) duelie sworne & examined deposeth
That about the begininge of December last he was forcibly robbed & dispoiled at the forenamed Ternant & Miltowne Donlavan mr William Bulkeley his house of his goods & to the value followinge at least as he verily beleeveth vz of corne & hay to the value of seaven pounds in cowes yonge & old horses younge & old & english sheepe to the value of fourescore & ten pounds in a house newly built, houshold stuffe, cloths & other goods to the value of six & twentie pounds, & in a lease of a ferme at least least thirteene pounds, in all amountinge to <140 li.> the somm of a hundred & fourtie pounds; by the hands & meanes of James Woluerston of RathBran gentleman <A> Edmond mcBrian of Baronstowne, & ffarrell oge mc Keoghoe of Holliwood in the countie of wicklowe; & further deposeth that he hath a younge child a son & his only child which is keept there at Donlavan parish & which he cannot gett away, for they will not suffer him to be brought away though he sent for him, all which he testifieth to be true .
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William Aldrich
John Sterne
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