Deposition of Richard Stevens
- Reference: MS 829, fols 199r-199v
- County: Limerick
- Date: 9/11/1642
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Lost by debts
- How to Cite
fol. 199r
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Richard Stevens late of Clansherbegg barony of Connelloe and within the County of Limerick husbandman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c deposeth & saith That on or aboute Christmas last & since the begining & by meanes of this present rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoyled of his goods & Chattles to the values followeing vzt worth 155 li.
Of Cowes horses & sheepe to the value of eight & thirtie pounds eighteene shillinges Of weareing a pp arell fiue pounds Of ready gould fifteene pounds Part consisting Of debts amounting to the sume of fiftie seaven pounds three shillinges & foure pence due from the vndernamed persons vzt ffrances Wilkison Morris Downes John Higgins & Thomas Adams protestants Cnogher o Casy Jo Donnell mc Shane of the Rowre in the said County husbandman Patricke Marcus of the same weauer William mc Walter of the Tuoth in the said County brogemaker & although he accounted the same goode debte before the begining of this rebellion yett in regard the said protestants are vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion & the rest out in open & actuall rebellion therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them One nursery of trees digged vp & taken away by the rebells to his damadge & losse of ten pounds The deponent saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed of the lands of Anaghbegg in the County of Clare wherin he had seaven yeeres lease woorth him six pounds per annum aboue the rent wherin he is damnified Twenty pounds The totall of his losses amounts to one hundred fiue & fiftie pounds He saith that he is credibly informed that his Cattle aboue mencioned as he is credibly informed by were taken away by the forces of Patricke
fol. 199v
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<B Patrick> Purcell of Croe in the said County Esquire nowe Sarieant mayor generall of the rebells of Munster & likewise by the Company of Richard Stevenson of Dunmoylin in the said County Esquire & his son Oliuer Stevenson both since deceased & killed in open & actuall rebellion He lastly saith that the aforesaid Thomas Adams was heertofore a reputed protestant but since this rebellion turned papists his cause of knowledge is that this deponent demanding the said Adams the certainty therof confessed the same to this deponent & further he deposeth not
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Jurat coram nobis
9o 9bris 1642
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