Deposition of George Hilton
- Reference: MS 812, fols 216r-216v
- County: Kilkenny
- Date: 24/11/1643
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Death, Robbery, Stripping
George Hilton of Castlecomer in the County of Kilkenny gent Carpenter sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That sin in the begining of the present Rebellion & by meanes thereof George Hilton his father then alive, but since dead, & this deponent himself being his eldest sonn, amongst others were forceibly deprived robbed and dispojled of the possession Rents & proffitts of their farmes and of their Corne hay Cattle horses Mares howshold goodes provition & other their meanes of the value and to their losse of three hundred & fifty powndes ster And that this deponents said father & his mother & himself his wife & one child & the deponentes 3 brothers & 2 sisters were all robbed and stript of their clothes stark naked & exposed to such Cold & want that his said father mother 2 of his brothers and one of his sisters perished & dyed thereby And further saith that the parties Rebells that soe robbed <A> stripped and dispojled them were those of the name and sept of the Brenans & Butlers of the Barrony of ffasserdiney & Idough in the said County of Kilkenny and their partakers and followers
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Jur xxiiijo Nov: 1643
Randall Adams
Hen: Brereton
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George Hilton Jur
24o Nov: 1643
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