Deposition of Walter Watts
- Reference: MS 828, fols 231r-231v
- County: Kerry
- Date: 26/6/1643
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Lost by debts
- How to Cite
fol. 231r
1878
Walter Watts Late of the towne & parish of Treley barony of Corkeg w inny & within the com of kerry merchant (a brittish protestant duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue &c. deposeth & sayth that vpon the 25th day of Jan: 1641, & diuers tymes since he lost was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt worth part consisting in debts due from
Of Cowes horses and swine to the value of fifty pounds Of househould stuff & prouision & weareing apparrell to the value of one hun dred thirty & fifty pounds Of ready mony to the value of one hundred & fourteen pounds Of Plate & gould rings to the value of twelue pounds ten shillings Of Salt and hides to the value of three hundred & nyntye pounds Of Corne and hay in haggard to the value of twenty fiue pounds Of merchantable goods to the value of twenty nyne pounds, He likewise sayth that he was dispossessed of a lease of Gortacashlane wherin he had a terme of Eleauen yeares to come worth coibus annis two pounds per annum ouer & aboue the Land Lords rent wherein he conceaues himselfe damnifyed to the value of twenty pounds, Al s o of a house in Traley aforesaid which was burnt he Lost in it to the value of one hundred and twentye pounds Of debts amounting to the value of three hundred & fourty pounds which e re this rebellion were estemed good debts but now became desparate by reason some of the debtors are impouerished protestants as Tho: Gray of Treley aforesaid Deane of Ardfart & Captain Edward Hasset & John Hassett his brother & diuers others & the rest Papists and out in open and actuall rebellion as James Trant of Arda{
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Jurat coram nobis 26o Jun: 1643
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis
fol. 231v
1879
James Wallis
Philip Bisse