1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Deposition of John Cookesson

Reference: MS 829, fols 001r-001v
County: Clare
Date: 4/5/1642
Type: Bisse
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping

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John Cookesson late of Atteslany in the parish of K ilkeedy in the barony of Inshyquin within the Countie of Clare clerke (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined &c deposeth & saith That about Christmas last the deponent was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods worth 89 li. & Chatteles to the seuerall values following vizt
Of two mares & one nagg to the value of six fiften pounds sterl Of other Cowes Cattle to the value of twelue pounds Of his corne in the haggard & horse to the value of six pounds sterl Of houshould stuffe linnen & weareing apparell to the value of six & three thirty pounds sterl In buildinge plantinge & Improueing vpon the said farme to the value of twenty pounds sterl The totall of his losses amounts to foure score & nyne pounds sterl, besides the losses of his Church liueing calld Kilkeedy woorth Coibus annis three score pounds sterl per annum which he leaues to future Consideration
he further sayes, that he was turned out of the Castle of Deroane in the aforesaid Baroney (where he fled for refuge) by Edmund O Hagan of Moghill in the said Baroney Esquire, and by the meanes of the sayd Edmund the deponent has lost his houshould stuffe, Corne & prouision & some cattle, alsoe he hath lost his two mares by the means of Robert Burnell of ffedane in the count: of Gallaway gentleman and he sayth that he hath lost his linen, and wearing apparrell by the meanes of Turlogh O Brian of [ ] Aughrim Aughrim in the County of Clare Esquire, he further deposeth that Christopher Hebdidge & Peter Newman, John Twizden the yonger, Nicholas Wheeler & one Adams a Collyer, & his wife, and the wife of Edward Coom & Robert Hart with his child all these were late of the parish of Iacy Cromaugh were crue l & Robert Hart weer all murdered by the hands & meanes of the sons of Jonah Mc Thomas Burk of Kiltarton in the count of Gallaway Esquire also one Peter ward his wife & George ward his son were all both murdered by the Mc fflartyes of the Iles of Arran in the Count of Galway and a son of Abraham Baker Carpenter to the Earle of Twomond was murdered by the means of Conner O Brian & Turlogh O Brian & the said Jonah Mc Thomas his sons all confederats, he further sayth that Katherin Cookson the deponents wyfe and his children & Margaret Cookson of the said Atterslany were all stript by Owen mc Loughlins followers of Bally [ ] in the parish of Kilcorny and baroney of Bragods, & County of Clare and further he cannot depose
John Cookeson
Jurat coram nobis 4 May 1642
Phil: Bisse

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The examination of
John Cookeson clerke
Clare

Rev

Philip Bisse