1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Deposition of William Bushop

Reference: MS 824, fols 004r-004v
County: Cork
Date: 7/7/1642
Type: Dublin Original
Nature of Deposition: Lost by debts

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7o July Anno Domini 1642
William Bushop Agent for the [ ] Right reverend ffather in God Geo: by divine providence Lo: Bishopp of Cloyne being examined & duely sworne vpon the holy Evangelists deposeth & saith That Patricke Garnon of Lowth Gent, & Patricke mcEdmund mcMahon <400 L> of the Countie of Monnaghan gent are indebted vnto Mr. Michael Boyle Deane of Cloyne the summe of ffower hundred pownds sterling as appeareth by a bond wherein they became bound vnto the said Reverend ffather ioyntely & severall in a bond of Eight hundred pownds sterling for the payment of the said 400 li. vnto the said Lo: Bishopp or his assignes at a day longe since expired, which bond the said reverend ffather hath assigned over vnto the said Deane Boyle. And also deposeth that John Taffe of Branganston in the Countie of Lowth Esquire, Christopher Taaffe his sonn and Mr Taffes sonn of Cookeston whose name this Deponent doth not nowe remember are indebted vnto the said Deane Boyle the summe of <60 li.> sixtie pownds who for the payment whereof at a day Longe since expired, they became bound ioyntly & severally vnto the said Deane in the summe of one hundred & twentie pownds sterling. And likewise deposeth that Patricke mcLin; John Rawnagh & Martin Linsey in the parish of Derver in the Countie of Lowth ffarmers <12 li.> are indebted vnto the said Deane Boyle the summe of Twelfe pownds sterling, for the payment of which summe at a day longe since expired, they became bound ioyntly & severally vnto the said Deane in a bond of twentie fower pownds And that Richard Lawrance Taffe & Richard Dawe of Mounfeildston in the aforesaid Countie of Lowth Gent, are also <46 li.> indebted vnto him in the summe of fforty sixe pownds for the payment whereof at a certaine day longe agon expired, they became bound vnto him the said Deane Boyle in a bond ioyntly & severall of Ninetie & twoe pownds sterling. And that William Taaffe of Branganeston in the Countie of Lowth Gent is also indebted vnto the said Deane in the summe of Twentie and <21 li> one pounds sterling And John Babe of Derver aforesaid is indebted vnto the said Deane Boyle in the sume of Twenty and Sixe pownds

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pownds sterling for which two summes the said parties became bound to the said Deane Boyle in twoe repective bonds for the payment thereof at twoe respective dayes in the said bonds mencioned, but before this expired in the double summe of the each principall or thereabouts. All which debts summes were esteemed at the begining of this Rebellion as good Debts yett are nowe lost, and not not expected by the said Deane Boyle for that all the said persons either nowe are, or haue been seene in open action of Rebellion or have been salaine in the Act So that the totall of theis loss which the said Deane hath sustained by occasion of this Rebellion so farr forth as concerning the said bonds amounteth vnto the Summe of ffive hundred Sixtie & ffive pownds sterling

Will Bushop
Jurat 7to July 1642
John Sterne
Hen: Brereton

Henry Brereton
John Sterne