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Deposition of Sir Thomas Meridith and Thomas Haris

  • Reference:  MS 821, fols 078r-079v
  • County: Tipperary
  • Date: 17/5/1642
  • Type: Bisse
  • Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Words
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    • fol. 78r


    919
    Sir Thomas Meridith late of Ballycahell in the parish of Kill more in the Baronie of vpper or mon d in the County of Tipperary duely sworne & examined beefore vs by vertue of his maiesties Comiss{ion} to vs &c beareing date the 5th day of March last Anno domini 1641
    deposeth & saith that about the [ ] twentieth of 9ber december last past & since hee was robbed & forcibly disspoyled & lost by reason of this rebellion of his goods & Chattells rents worth five hundred & fo rty Pownds debts to the seuerall valewes following vz in sheepe cowes horsses mares Colts & swyne two hundred forty fiue pounds householdstuffe & household provision in linen, Clo wearing apperrell fifty seven threescore & ten & ten pounds ten shillings in fowling peeces swords & other munition to the valew of fower fiue sixe pounds seventeen e shilli{ng} of his implements of husbendrie three pounds in Corne in house & haggard & hay to the valewe of one hundred twenty & eight pounds in his Corne in ground which he e conceiueth to bee lost in regarde of t his rebellion fowerskore and eight pounds ster the totall of his afore mentioned losses amount t o 540 li. And hee further hee deposeth his Castle farme & lands of Ballycahell aforesayd out of which hee hath beene <A> expelled dispossessed by John o Kenedie of Downallie in the said Barony County gent now in actuall rebellion wh{erin} he hath one hundred fowerskore & sixteene yeeres or therabouts {to} come: which was worth him vntill the begininge begininge of this rebellion comunibus annis one hundred & twenty pounds over the rent of 3 li. per annum reserved to the landlord in tither out of fiue ploughlands & other parcells within the baronie & County afores{aid} wherin hee hath about eight yeeres to come worth comunibus anni{s} to the begining of this rebellion six pounds per annum And hee furth{er} deposeth that the aforenamed John o Kenedy & other Rebbells who entre{d} into this deponents Castle of Ballycahell aforesayd as he is inform{ed}

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    920
    hanged eighteene english protestants some wherof were within the Castle & others of them neere inhabitants therabouts & that one Ellenor Gunne wife of George Gunne was killed by John o Kenedy aforesayd & others as hee is informed And <B> hee further deposeth that he hath beene informed by his servants that John Grace, of the Grange in lower ormond gent Phillip mc Grath of Tome in the same Baronie Rourie O Mara of Clonmusk in the sayd Baronie & murtagh o Brien of Anagh in the sayd Baronie gent & diuers others were the parties that wer robbed him of parte of his stock & goods aforementioned
    Tho: Meredyth
    Jurat Coram nobis
    17o Maij 1642
    Ni: Philpot

    Sir
    The sayd deponent also deposeth that hee beeinge taken taken prisoner by some of the Rebbells vppon quarter vppon some Conference had <C> about the nineth of this moneth of May 1642 with David Power sonne of John Power Esquire eldest sonne of Sir William Power of Kilbolene knight say that if heard him wish hee were in the parliament house in England with one hundred skeanes & hee would kille them all & Edmond fz Gerald of the Clenlish in the County of Lymrick Esquire beeing present seconded the sayd speeche of the sayd David Power by swearing a great oath hee would drinke theire blouds
    <D> Thomas Haris late of Castletowne in the County of Lymrick gent beeing also a prisoner & beeing in Companie with the sayd Sir Thomas Meridith the former deponent beeing allso deposed this vppon his oath averreth that the sayd David Power Grand childe to Sir Willm Power sayd wished hee were then in the parliament house in England with one hundred skeanes & hee would kille them all there & that the sayd Edmond fz Gerald Esquire seconded his speeche by swearing [ ] hee a great oath hee would drinke theire blouds
    Tho: Meredyth Tho Harris
    Jurat Coram nobis
    17o Maij 1642
    Ni Philpot
    Phil: Bisse

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    921

    fol. 79v


    922

    Tipperary
    The Examinacion of Sir
    Tho: Meredith
    Knight
    370

    hand
    Mr Power & others, notable things

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    Nicholas Philpot
    Philip Bisse



     

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