1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Deposition of John Broder

Reference: MS 829, fols 192r-192v
County: Limerick
Date: 3/9/1642
Type: Bisse
Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Words, Lost by debts

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John Broder late of the Towne and parish of the hospitall in the County of lymericke clerke (an Irish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c deposeth and saith That on or aboute the 20th of March last he lost was robbed and forceably dispoyled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt worth 94 li.
O f horses to the value of twelue pounds Of bookes linnen & weareing apparell to the value of three score pounds Part consisting Of debts amounting to the summe of fortie foure two & twenty pounds due from the vndernamed persons vzt Daniell Spicer an Impouerished protestants & Richard Rawly of the Carra in the said County gentleman with others whose names he doth not remember And although he esteem{ed} the same goode debt before this rebellion yeett in <A> regard the said Daniell Spicer is dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion & the said Richard Rawly is out in actuall rebellion therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them The totall of his losses in goods & Chattles amounts to foure score & foureteene pounds besides the losse of the benefitt of his Church liueing the vicaridge of Vlla in the said County woorth Coibus annis three score pounds per annum which he leaues to consideration The deponent saith that his goods & were taken away by Morris Baggott of Bagottstowne in the said County gen Murtagh ô Brien neere Grallagh in the said County gentleman The deponent saith that John lisse Hugh ffench of the Hospitall aforesaid English protestants were murthered in the Church of Hospitall aforesaid by directions from the said Morris Baggott & Murtagh o Brien he saith that the said John being hideing of himself in the said Church slept in to the pulpit where he

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was cruelly murthered He likewise saith that the said Morris Baggot after he kepte siedge to the said Castle <B> of Hospitall aboute fiue weeckes wanting one day when as the said Castle was deliuered vp vnto him he said in the audience of this deponent & many others that the king did Contenance their cause & that he had his broade to shewe for what they did & that his Maiestie did turne papiste & further he deposeth not
John Broder
Jurat coram nobis
3o 7bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis

The examination of
John Broder
Limerick

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James Wallis
Philip Bisse