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Deposition of Joane fflavan

  • Reference:  MS 820, fols 046r-047v
  • County: Waterford
  • Date: 7/7/1642
  • Type: Bisse
  • Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Captivity, Robbery, Words, Lost by debts
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    • fol. 46r



    1156
    Joane fflavan late of the Citty of waterford widow in the parish of St Patricks & County of the Citty aforesaid widdow A brittish Protestant being duely Sworne and examined before vs by vertue of his Maiesties Comission bearing date &c deposeth and saieth that on or aboute the 25th day of december last past and sithence the begining of this present Rebellion in Irland she lost was Robbed and forcibly dispoyled of hir goods and Chattells to the seuerall values following vizt value of 469 li.__19 s.
    Off Cattell young and ould Horses Sheepe and Swine and poultry and Goats to the value of two hundred & fourskore pownds Nyneteene shillings ster Of Corne in house and Haggard to the value of fourteebe Pownds Of Houshould Goods and Houshould provission to the value of Twenty and Six pownds Off Implements of Husbandry to the value of five pownds and the deponent further saieth that shee was expelled and driven away from hir said farme being parte of the lands of Bishops Courte in the parish of Killcar Baronry of the Galties & County of Waterford wherein she lost had in Corne in Grownd Which she Conceiveth to be lost to the value of forty eight Sixty foure pownds Off Haye in stack Haggard to the v a lue of Twenty pownds the deponent likewise saieth that she was driven away from hir aforesaid farme wherein she had a lease of six yeeres to come being the which she valueth to worth with hir Improuements in fencing and other Charges the some of Two hundred pownds ster (the deponent further saieth that she had another lease of Phillipses land with in the County of the said Citty wherein she had a lease of seaventeene yeres vne x pired worth Coibus Annis aboue the lands lords rent five pownds per Annum which together with hir Implements she valueth to be w orth Twenty and five pownds like wise the deponent saieth that she had another lease of the Cargan within the County of the aforesaid Citty wherein shee had a lease of fourteene yeers vnexpired worth Coibus Annis aboue the land lords Rent Tenn pownds per Annum which she valueth to be worth forty pounds together with hir Improuements in buildings and fencing & other debts due which this deponent Counted good debts & Now become desperatt by Reason of this present Rebellion the som is thirty seaven pownds from t he vnder named partyes such ar Mr Michaell Boyle of the Citty of aforesaid which hath benn Impoverished by the Rebells in these parts Th e loss of the benefitt of a hous in Waterford aforesaid which { } <this> deponents husband in building ten shillings

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    1157
    And saith that Andrew White of the Citty aforesaid merchant is in actuall Rebellion <B> the totall of this deponents losses Amounts to the Some of four hundred fifty three score & Nyne pownds and Nynteene shillings and that And he was so robbed by the hands and Meanes of Paull Wadden fiz Nicholas of Pembrocks towne in the parish of Lisnekill in County aforesaid [ ] gent ffrancis wise of Newtowne with in the County of the Citty aforesaid gent and with the forces of Waterford and Tipperary and there abouts whose Names this deponent knoweth not The deponent further saieth that hir deseased Husband was Murthered Hanged by one Hanley a cheefe comander amonge the rebells as she is informed by the Rebells in that Citty alsoe the deponent saieth that when the Rebells were at the Citty Gate the English being with in the Gate & were in armes ready to resist the rebells had prepared against them & Might have Beaten them of, but the Maior & alderman of the said Citty gave a strickt Command that noe Man should shute at [ ] a shott to the Enemy where vppon the Rebells were Imediatly lett lett in & therevpon the said protestants were dissarmed and further she Canot depose.
    Jurat Coram Nobis
    4 th day of July
    The deponent saith that one Geraldine a merchant of Waterford aforesaid tould this deponent aboute Christmas last that he was the said Gerraldine was then ouer the Water [ ] with the lord Mountgarrett & his lordshipp tould him that the kings Maiestie did not care that they (meaning the people of Waterford should make pyes & pastees of them (meaneing of the English of Waterford aforesaid & then he said what shall we doe with theis English doggs & this deponent sayeing that shee would neuer forsake god & the king he then Replied & said what god & kinge haue you, you haue noe more god & the kinge (quoth he) then the doggs shee saith That one Lawrence Ward of Waterford aforesaid Inkeper formerly a reputed protestant is since this rebellion turned papist & the wife of one Holmes likewise liueing in the said Wards house & Robert Andrew & his wife & his wife father are al l likewise turned papists And this deponent saith that Juan the wife of the said Robert Andrewes tould said to this deponent when the rebells entred the said Cittie of Waterford, god be praised (said shee) that nowe one freinds is come to vs & further she canot depose
    <The deponent saith that John Collins sadler an English per ffrances S [ ] Powell smith & one Sanders a plumber all reputed protestants & liueing in Waterford aforesaid are detained by the rebells in Waterford aforesaid to helpe them by their occupation>
    Jurat coram nobis 7o July 1642
    Phil: Bisse Hen: Rugge
    Joan [mark] fflavan

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    1158

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    1159
    The examination of Joane
    fflavan widdowe
    Waterford
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    Henry Rugg
    Philip Bisse



     

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