1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Deposition of John Richman

Reference: MS 829, fols 244r-244v
County: Limerick
Date: 15/2/1643
Type: Bisse
Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Robbery, Lost by debts

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<symbol> John Richman of the parish of Clonekagh in the barony of Conneloe and within the county of Limrick husb: duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue etc: deposeth & sayth that in about the 3d day of Jan: 1641 he lost was robbed & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values of following vizt worth 232 li. 4 s.
Of horses mares Cowes & swine to the value of seaunty one hundred fourty fiue pownds Of houshould & p r ouision stuffe to the value of fiue seaun pownds Of Corne & hay in the haggard & house to the value of fiue seaun pownds twelue shillings <Of Corne in ground to the value 11 li. Of stocks of bees to the value of 1 li. 10 s.> Of Mault to Of debts to the summe of ten pownds which ere this rebellion were esteemed good debts but now become desperate by reason some of the debtors are protestants impouerisht by this rebellion as Jane Cole wid John Wheeler, Dennis o Hogan & Richard Cumin; the said Dennis o Hogan of Newmarket gen heretofore an Irish protestant but since this rebellion turnd papist: and the rest rebbells Also he sayth that by means of this rebellion, he is dispossessed of a lease of in the parish of Go Clonkagh wherein he had a tearme of fiue years [ ] & halfe at the beginning of this rebellion worth Coibus annis 13 li. per annum aboue the land Lords rent wherein he conceiue himselfe damnifyed with his improuements to the value of thirty pownds also of another part of a lease in the parish of Clonferto in Com of Corke wherein he had a tearme of ten years at the beginning of this rebellion worth to his share 7 li. per annum aboue the land Lords rent, wherein he conceiue himselfe damnifyed to the value of twenty pownds the totall of his losses amounts to the value of two hundred thirty two pownds four shillings he also sayth that Donogh o Lenaghan of Cloneferto aforesaid a husb <&> Doonough O Murry of the same gen heretofore Irish protestants & since this rebellion turnd papists and also Isaack Ellis of the same miller heretofore a brittish protestant and since likewise turnd papist & further he cannot deposeth that Dennis Donough o Daly of Cloneferto aforesaid husb William O Nartin of the same taylour & his father Patrick Nartin of the same a reufer of the Customes of the market there and his son Edmund o Nartin clarke to Mr Nicholas Philpot heretofore Irish protestants & since this rebellion likewsie turned papists likewise Donough o ffenane of the same husb: is turnd papist & further he cannot depose
John Richman
Jurat coram nob: 15o ffebr:
1642
Phil: Bisse
Tho: Bettesworth

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John Richmans Exam
Limerick

Philip Bisse
Thomas Bettesworth