Deposition of John Perry
- Reference: MS 835, fols 155r-155v
- County: Fermanagh
- Date: 10/1/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Assault, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Words
- How to Cite
fol. 155r
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John Perry of Newtowne alias Castlecoole in the parish of Drummully halfe Barrony of Coole & County of ffermanagh yeoman Aged ffifty Eight yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne deposeth that he was Robed & dispoyled of all his goods att Newtowne alias Castlecoole aforesaid the five & twentieth day of October last about tenn of the Clocke in the forenoone being of the seuerall vallues followinge, in Corne worth twenty pounds, in Cattle worth ffifteene pounds, in hay worth fforty shilings, in household goods provition for the house & other goods worth twenty pounds, One lease of the Mansion house & Milne att Castlecoole aforesaid & the lands therevnto belonging being parte of the Mannor of Castle Brinsley alias Castlecoole in the said parish & County att & u for the lives of John Perry the yonger Sara Perry & william Perry & the longest liver of them And after the decease of the longest liver of them for one yeare att & vnder the Annuall or yearely rent of seaventeene pounds twelue shilings worth one hundreth & twenty pounds, in all Amounting to the some of one hundreth threescore & seaventeene pounds By the meanes of Captaine <a> Rory Magwire of hassett towne in the Barrony of lurge & County of ffermanagh Leiftenant william Greaham of Lisnemallett in the parish of Clownis & County aforesaid, Ambrose Carleton kinsman to the said Leiftenant william Greaham & diuerse other Irish Rebells of there company to the Number of ffower hundreth or thereabouts And further deposeth that he his wife & fower Children were all Stript by some of the said Company & there Cloathes taken from them the said day in or about the said towne, And that he heard some of them say that for what they did they had the kings warrant & within a month the English protestants shold have halfe there goods againe & there <A> lands att halfe the rent. And further deposeth that he hath heard that the said Rebells had Murthered to the Number of fforty persons English protestants of the said parishoners or thereabouts And further deposeth that one of the said company gave this deponent a wound vpon the right side of his neck with a sword when the said Company was striping of him
John Perry
Deposed this 10th of Ja: 1641:
William Aldrich
John Sterne.
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John Perry Com ffermanagh
Jur xo Jan: 1641
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John Sterne
William Aldrich