Deposition of Richard White
- Reference: MS 825, fols 015r-016v
- County: Cork
- Date: 27/9/1642
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Death, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Succour, Lost by debt
- How to Cite
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Richard White late of Inishbegneclery parish of Aghadowne barony of West Carbry & within the County of Corke gentleman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c deposeth and saith That on or aboute the ffirst of ffebruary last & diuers times since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt worth 841 li. 10 s. part consisting in debts due from the vndernamed Rebells vizt
Of Cowes heeffers steeres bulls horses mares sheepe and swine to the value of three hundred & foure pounds Of houshould stuffe to the value of ffortie pounds Of Corne & hay in the haggard to the value of one hundred fiue & tw e nty pounds Of Corne left in ground which he conceaues to be lost to the value of fortie pounds Of Implements of husbandry to the value of fiftie shill The deponent saith that he is dispossessed by meanes of this rebellion of the said land of Inishbegneclery in the said County woorth Coibus annis aboue the landlords rent fiftie pounds per annum haueing a tearme of three liues therin & payed two hundred & ffiftie pounds ffine for the same wherin he is damnified three hundred pounds He saith that he buylt a house vpon another ffarme called Ballylincheram in the said County nowe burnt by the rebells to his losse & damadge of ten pounds Of debts amou n ting to the sume of twenty pounds due from the vndernamed persons vizt Cnoghor o Driscoll alias Cnoghor Crone of Inishserkin in the said County gentleman John mc Arte of of Bantry in the said County gentleman Donogh mc Cnoghor of
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Glannafoin in the said County gentleman But in regard the said parties are out in actuall rebellion therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them The totall of his losses amounts to eight hundred one & ffortie pounds ten shillings <B> The deponent saith that aboute the time aboue specified the said Cnoghor o Driscoll tooke away this deponents said Cattle from of the lands of Inishbegneclery aforesaid & tooke possession of this deponents house & Caused his Corne to be threshed wherewith he sowed parte of his owne land & parte of this deponents land & that with his owne horses Likewise he saith that aboute the same time his horses Cattle & Corne were taken away from of the lands of Ballylincheram aforesaid by the meanes of Teige o Driscoll of Rath in the said County gentleman Cnoghor <C> Crowly of the same yeoman & Donogh mc Cnoghor of Glannafoin aforesaid gentleman This deponent saith that aboute the 15th of may last a shipp out of Bristoll layeing at Ancor at Castlehaven in the said County the maisters mate of the said shipp came to Ballymore to visit the English there, one Mr Thomas Newman of the same same desired desired the said masters mate to carry him & his family a boord the said shipp & thence into England with his goods & haueing agreed for the fraight & all the said Newman & he went in one boat & his wife & nyne children with some of his goods in another boate
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wherof the rebells in those partes haueing Intelligence they choose out eight of the said Teige o Driscolls company, eight out of Cnoghor Crone o Driscolls company aforesaid, eight of Walter oge Coppingers company of Ringmurra in the said County gentleman & haueing manned a boate they lay in ambush vnder a Crecke & misseing of the boate where the said Newman was, seised vpon the other boate where his wife and children were, & in a most miserable maner murthered the number of sixteene persons young & ould cutting the men in peeces & throwing others ouer boord his cause of knowledge is that this was related vnto him by the said Newman himselfe, as alsoe by some of his children then in the said boate saued whoe were preserued by the mercy of god together with the mother & caryed away prisoners by them but the mother soone after dyed of the same as is supposed & further he deposeth not
Richard White
Jurat coram nobis
27o 7bris 1642
Tristram WhetCombe
Phil: Bisse
Ro: southwell
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Corke
The examination of
Richard White
500
R
Philip Bisse
Robert Southwell
Tristram Whetcombe