Deposition of Arthure Bettsworth
- Reference: MS 823, fols 004r-005v
- County: Cork
- Date: 26/5/1642
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Words, Lost by debts
- How to Cite
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Arthure Bettswoorth of the Towne & parish of Moalloe within the County of the Cittie Corke gentleman duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue &c deposeth and saith That vpon the 8th 9th & tenth of ffebruary last or therabouts he was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt value of 2279 li. sterling part consisting
Of his Cattle as english cowes of all sortes to the value of six hundred pounds sterling Of horses mares & sheepe to the value of six hundred and sixtie nyne pounds Of Corne & hay in the haggard to the value of thirtie pounds He further saith that he was dispossessed by meanes of this rebellion of a farme of Kilmccline woorth coibus annis aboue the land lords rent one hundred pounds per annum haueing a lease therin of eleaven yeeres to come woorth fiue hundred pounds sterling Of another lease of Cnockduffe & Skarteene woorth aboue the land lords rent 30 li. per annum haueing a lease therin of eleaven yeeres to come woorth one hundred & fiftie pounds sterling He likewise saith that he was dispossessed of a farme of the land of Quartertowne by meanes of this rebellion woorth coibus annis fiue & twenty pounds sterling per annum, woorth two hundred & fiftie pounds sterling haueing a lease therin of nynteene yeeres to come for dispoileing of a house in M o alloe aforesiad formerly sett for ten pounds per annum wherin he conceaues to be damnified fortie pounds sterling Of debts which he accounted goode debts before this rebellion amounting to the summe of fiftie pounds sterling due vpon Pat: Nugent of the parish of Castle magner in the said County yeoman Daniell Moyleconey of Ballywollehan in the said County both in actuall rebellion & Henry Henby Henly a reputed protestant whoe lost all he had butt since kill d in fight as a rebell as the deponent is credibly informed The totall of his losses amounts to two thousand two hundred three score & nynteene pounds sterling And that was so robbed by the <hand> meanes or hands of the lord Montgarrett the lord Roch the lord of Inkerine the lord of dunboyne the lord of Castleconell dermot Carty alias donogh of logherte in the said County Esquire Theobald Purcell
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<B> alias baron of Loghmae in the County of Tipperary Esquire Sarieant Major Purcell Collonell Wall ô dwyer donogh o Callaghane gentleman donell o keeffe gentleman alias o keeffe Edmond Purcell Butler Esquire son & heire of the said lord of Montgarrett & others of his sons Sarieant Major Walsh doctor Higgins Redmond Barry Roberte Magner as this deponent credibly heard & doth beleeue with diuers <C> others whoe stayed and continued at Moalloe aforesaid in a rebellious manner Comittinge all of spoile destruction & hostility vpon the goods & houses of all the brittish & protestants in & neere Moalloe aforesaid by murthering and killing many of them vizt Jonathan Smith Edward Proctor Michell Hudson & diuers others from friday the 11th of ffebruary 1641 vntill wednesday followeing & further he cannot depose he further sayth that one Teig O Rone with others seruants and souldyers to Cahir O Callahan did murder one william Lynes & his wife nere Moyallo as he was credibly informed he also sayth that this deponent with diuers others comming from Corke towards Moyallo he heard at a distance some of the Rebells of the Lord Muskeryes Army say that they were Puritanicall rogues & rascalls, traytours to their king and country And further he cannot depose
Arthure Bettesworth
Jurat coram nobis
26t May
1642
Tho: Bettesworth
Phil: Bisse
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The examination of
Arthure Bettswoorth
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Philip Bisse
Thomas Bettesworth