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Deposition of John Twenbrock

  • Reference:  MS 829, fols 041r-042v
  • County: Clare
  • Date: 24/6/1642
  • Type: Bisse
  • Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Robbery, Stripping, Lost by debts
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    • fol. 41r



    742
    John Twenbrock late of Tullydeae in the parish of Disert & barony of In s hequin & within the County of Clare clerke (a brittish protestant) being duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth & saith That on or aboute Christmas lost & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to his losse & damadge to the seuerall values followeing vizt of 348 li., besides his church livinge worth 200 li. per annum
    Of Cowes horses & mares shee p e & swine of Tullydea aforesaid to the value of foure score & sixteene pounds Of houshould stuffe & bookes & prouision in the house to the value of the thirteene eight & twenty pounds six shillings & eight pence Of linnen & woollen to the value of twelue pounds Of hay & Corne in the haggard & house to the value of fortie pounds The deponent saith that he was expelled & driuen away from his said farme & house where he left in Corne in ground to the value of twelue pounds The deponent saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed of his said farme of Tullydeae wherin he had a lease of foureteene yeeres to come or therabouts woorth Coibus annis to be sett aboue the land lords rent nyne pounds per annum the deponent haueing improued the said farme with building and incloseing which lease he valueth together with his Improuement of the same to bee woorth three score & ten pounds Of his lease of the land of Bally m ally in the said County wherin this deponent had a lease of fiue yeeres to come woorth Coibus annis seaventeene pounds per annum which he valueth to be woorth to be sould forty pounds Of debts which this deponent accounted to be goods debts before the begining of this rebellion amounting to the sume of thirtie seaven pounds thirteene shillinges

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    743
    & foure pence due vpon the vndernamed perso ns vzt Richard W orrell Andrewe Chaplin clerke John Robert J[ ] all dissenabled protestants by meanes of this rebelli on & John mc Considen of Ruine in the said County gentleman Dermod o Dea of Clonebegg in the said County gentleman Edmond o Dea of Ballyogane in the said County gentleman & diuers others whose names this deponent canot remember in regard he hath not his papers now to produce <B> The totall of his losses amounts to three hundred fortie eight pounds <besides the losse of his Church liueings of disert & the Rectory of Kilmemony in the said County woorth Coibus annis three two hundred pounds per annum which he leaues to future consideration> The deponent saith that he was robbed at night by the hands & meanes Therlagh o Brien of Tullamore in the said County Esquire & others Conor o Brien of [Kilki n dy] in the said County gentleman Teige Roe o Brien of the same gentleman Loghlin oge o Grady & diuers others whose names he knoweth not Hee further saith that some of his children were stripped by the sai d part i es The deponent saith And that John Lome of Cragga una Thresurer of Kilfenora Patricke Lissaght of Ballynora in the said County Chancellor of the same, Owen Nellane of Killaspughenan clerke Killecully o ô Hicky viccar of Glaneyuagh clerke & County aforesaid Robert Cox clerke, one Mr Coshegan clerke Richard Hogane clerke Pierce Butler neere Cashell clerke are all of them since this rebellion turned papists (as this deponent is credibly informed) & further he canot depose
    John Twenbroke
    Jurat coram
    nobis 24o Junt 1641
    Perig: Banister
    Phil: Bisse

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    744

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    745
    C Co Clare
    The examination of
    John Twenbrock
    334

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    Peregrine Banister
    Philip Bisse



     

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