Deposition of John Shipward
- Reference: MS 823, fols 022r-022v
- County: Cork
- Date: 4/10/1642
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Words
- How to Cite
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John Shipward late of Downederrow & Barroney of Kinnalea Within the County of corke gent (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth and saith that that on or aboute Candlemas last & since the begining of this present Rebellione: hee lost Was Robbed & forceabley dispoyled of his goodes & Chattles to the severall vallues fowlowing vidz: value of 563 li.
Of oxe hides and Cow hides the vallue of one hundred & tenn poundes: in Barke to the vallue of Tw e nty pounde s : in corne in the hagard & house to the vallue of thirtie poundes in oxen Cowes steares & horses to the vallue of sixtie three poundes: in Houshould stufe & plowetacklinge to the vallue of fortie pounde: the yearley profecte of my lease together with my Tanyard to the vallue of fiftie poundes per annum for one and Twenty yeares to come: in deptes to the vallue of tenn wherin he is damnified three hundred pounds The totall of his losses amounts to fiue hundred three score & ten three pounds He furt h er deposeth and saith that he verily beleues that his goods were forceably taken away about the said time by the meanes of John Lacy Patricke Roch of Pollylong in the said County gentleman, he is induced the rather to beleeue the same because some of his goods were found after amongst his the said Roches Cattle Th is deponent And saith that James Waterman of Glanororte in the said County of Kiery yeoman John Cooke of Ballymackens in the said County of Corke husbandman & John Phillipps of Downdoroe in the said County butcher Thomas Slater & his man were since this rebellion murthered but by whome he knoweth not, onely the said Slater & his man were murthered by Dermod mc Carty his men of Incherany in the said County gentleman as he heard themselves confessd being afterwards taken by the re
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bells & hanged by the English army & further he deposeth n o t
John Shipward
Jurat coram nobis
4o 8bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
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