Deposition of Richard Belshire
- Reference: MS 820, fols 020r-020v
- County: Waterford
- Date: 17/8/1642
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Desecration, Robbery
- How to Cite
fol. 20r
1416
Richard Belshire late of Ballysaggard in the p{
Of Cowes horses & mares at Ballysaggard aforesaid to the value of ten pounds Of houshould stuffe & houshould prouision linnen woollen & weareing apparell to the value of twenty pounds of ready mony the sume of twenty shillinges Of two stockes of bees to the value of twelue shillinges The deponent further saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed of his said farme of Ballysaggard worth Coibus annis aboue the landlords rent a forty pounds per annum hauing disbursed forty pownds therron which he hath reapt no benefitt off wherin he conceaues himself to be dampnified the sume of forty pounds The totall of his losses amounts to three score eleuen pownds twelue shill he sayth that he was robd by the rebbells to the number of forty all of the Lord of Cahirs company as he is credibly informed, in particular he sayth that one James Cumin of Clohine in the parish of Shandrahan in county of Tipp: yeoman some time after this robbery was comitted did in a Brauado send tydings to this this deponent that he had the deponents fowling peice & sword he also sayth that one of the said forty men then & there tooke the deponents new testament and & first opening of it spread it vpon the fire and burnt it & [
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Jurat coram nobis 17 Aug
1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis
fol. 20v
1417
Richard Belshires
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