Deposition of Anthony Dowdall
- Reference: MS 821, fols 157r-158v
- County: Tipperary
- Date: 26/10/1642
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Lost by Debts
- How to Cite
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Anthony Dowdall late of Killecharoone parish of Shanraghane barony of Effa and Offa & w i thin <in> the County of Tipperary gentleman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute the begining first of december last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt of the va value of [
Of Cowes horses mares sheepe & swine to the value of one hundred & three score pounds. The deponent saith that by meanes of this present e rebellion in Irelan d he was dispossessed of the seuerall farmes following vizt Of the lands of Dunt ahen in the County of Cork and of the lands of Kilkonan & Grange likwise in the said County conteneing three halfe plowlands wherin he hath a lease of sixteene yeeres to come or therabouts woorth Comunibus an nis aboue the landlords rent fif tie pounds per annum haueing layed out in bylding & another necessary Improuements at least a hundred pounds vpon the same wherin he is damnified the same of three hundred & fif tie pounds. He was likwise dispossessed of one moytie of the faires marketts & the ferry boate of ffarmoy in the said County wherin he hath a lease of foure & Twenty yeeres yeett yeett to come woorth to this deponent ouer & aboue the landlords rent ten pounds per annum in this lease he is damnified foure score pounds. O f another farme of a dwelling house & some lands of Killecharoon aforesaid wherin he hath a lease of Two & twenty
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yeeres to come woorth to this deponent aboue the landlords rent fiftie pounds per annum wherin he is damnified three hundred & fiftie pounds Part consisting of Of debts amounting to the sume of forty six score & foure pounds parte <B> wherof is due from Mortagh o Lundergan of Cahir in the said County of Tipperary gentleman Donnell o Gowne of Kilcarroone aforesaid miller both in actuall Rebellion & another parte due from diuers English vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion. But in regard the said Mortagh o Lundergan & Do nnell o Gowne are out in actuall rebellion & the rest Impouerished by the rebellion therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them. The totall of his losses in goods and Chattles amounts to one thousand forty foure pounds, besides the losse of the benefitt of his freehould estate of the lands of Cappagh in the County of Limerick & the lands of Kiltenan & Kiltenanlea & Ballymucky the said County wherof he is dispossessed by meanes of this rebellion woorth Comunibis annis foure score & foure pounds which he leaues to consideration. The deponent saith that aboute the 24th of March last, & since, his Cattle were driuen & caryed away by Richard Condon of BallymcPatrickes company <C> & by some of Sir Edward ffitz Harris his men their names this deponent knoweth not. Aboute the 15th of January last William Ellyot of Cloglegh in the said County of Tipperary Cork yeoman was murthered by the meanes of John Butler of Cloghbridg in the County of Tipperary Esquire & his company whoe alsoe came with force and armes to Cloglegh aforesaid accompanyd with three or foure hundred armed men & there then
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In a hostill maner droue & caryed a prey of Cattle, & then & there in a rebellious maner stripped the number of fiftie or three score persons men women & children their names he knoweth not. & further he deposteh not
Anthony Dowdall
Jurat coram nobis
26o 8bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Ro: southwell
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The examination
of Anthony Dowdall
Tipperary
Reu
Philip Bisse
Robert Southwell