1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Deposition of Vrsula Lory

Reference: MS 829, fols 180r-180v
County: Limerick
Date: 28/9/1642
Type: Bisse
Nature of Deposition: Desecration, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping

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<symbol> Vrsly Vrsula Lory late of BallymcCurry in the parish of barony of & within the County of limerick widdow (a brittish protestant) duel y sworne & examined by vertue of &c deposeth & saith That on or aboute Christmas last { } diuers times since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland she lost was robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vzt worth 46 li. 10 s.
Of houshould stuffe to the value of fiue pounds Of ready mony to the value of fiue pounds ten shillinges Of linnen & weareing apparell to the value of eight pounds Of a house which cost the building therof two & twenty pounds The totall of her losses amounts to six & ffortie pounds ten shillings she saith And that Thomas Arthure of the Cittie of limerick Esquire tooke detained this deponents her houshould stuffe from her she saith that John Brayne & his wife about Easter last were murthered by the rebells without the gates of the said Cittie she likewi{se} saith that the late Bishopp of limericke deceased being buryed some foure {or} fiye dayes in St Munchins church at limerick his corpes was digged out of the graue & strippe{d} strippes of his shrowde & cut of his [ ] eares & cutt his face as she is informed by his owne children that sawe him & further she deposeth not
Vrsly [mark] Loryes marke
Jurat coram nobis
28o 7bris 1642
Tristram WhetCombe
Phil: Bisse
Ro: southwell

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Vrsly Lordes examination
Limerick
The examination of
Vrsly Lory
Reu

Philip Bisse
Robert Southwell
Tristram Whetcombe