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Deposition of Thomas Keyes

  • Reference:  MS 820, fols 244r-244v
  • County: Waterford
  • Date: 13/6/1642
  • Type: Bisse
  • Nature of Deposition: Robbery, Lost by debts
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    • fol. 244r



    1577
    Thomas Keyes late of Tulloe in the parish of Armore in the barony of deces within the Countie of Waterford Clothier (a brittish protestant duely sworne and examined by vertue of his Maiesties Comission bearing date the 5th day of March in the 17th yeere of his Maiesties raigne that nowe is) deposeth and saith That on or aboute Christimas last he lost and hath beene robbed & forceably dispoiled of his foods and Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt value of 147 li. 2 s. sterling
    Of his Cowes horses sheepe and swine to the value of fiftie seaven pounds two shillings In woollen linnen weareing apparell and houshould stuffe to the value of twelue pounds sterling Of his hay & turfe to the value of seaventeene pounds sterling The deponent saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed of his said farme & mill buylt thervpon woorth to this deponent aboue the rent he payed himself fiue pounds per annum wherin he had a lease of six and twenty yeeres to come which he valueth to be woorth thirtie pounds sterling The deponent likewise saith that he lost in ready mony bef & bonds & bills to the value of fortie shillings pounds sterling Alsoe that mc Donell of the parish of Lisgenin aforesaid & Morris mc Ric k ard of Rushin in the said County gentleman (both in actuall rebellion) are indebted to this deponent in the summe of one pound & two shillings sterling & therefore this deponent cannot gett any satisfaction from them The totall of this deponents losses doe amount to one hundred fortie seaven pounds two shillings sterling And that he was robbed as aforesaid by the meanes of James Butler of Grange in the said County gentleman Thomas Browne of the same [ ] yeoman Richard ffontaine of Grange in the said County yeoman & Katherin Mansfield of the same widdowe & others whose names he knoweth not & further he canot depose
    Thomas [mark] Keyes marke
    Jurat coram nobis
    13o Junij 1642
    Percy Smyth
    Tho Badnedge
    Phil: Bisse

    fol. 244v



    1578
    The examination of
    Thomas Keyes
    Waterford
    Reu
    50



    Percy Smyth
    Philip Bisse
    Thomas Badnedge



     

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