Deposition of John Harte
- Reference: MS 829, fols 229r-229v
- County: Limerick
- Date: 16/12/1642
- Type: Bisse
- Nature of Deposition: Robbery, Lost by debts
- How to Cite
fol. 229r
409
John Harte late of the Towne and parish of Adare in the barony of Connelloe and within the County of lymericke husbandman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined before vs by vertue of &c deposeth and saith That on or about the 25th day of December 1641 and since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoyled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vzt worth 370 li.
Of Cowes steeres horses one mare and swine to the value of one hundred and forty pounds Of houshould stuffe to the value of fourty pounds Of ready money the sum m e of one and twenty pounds: Of Corne and hay in the haggard to the value of three score pounds The deponent saith that by meanes of this present rebellion hee hath lost the benifitt of his lease of part of the lands of Adare wherin he had a tearme of fifty yeares to come having payed thirty pounds for a fine for the same aboute half a yeare before the rebellion it being worth three pounds a yeare aboue the Land lords rent herin he conceaues himself damnified the summe of fourty pounds Of debts amounting to the sum m e of thirty pounds due from the vndernamed persones protestan{
fol. 229v
410
the said County gent alsoe his corne that he layd {
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Jurat coram nobis
16o Decembris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Hen: Rugge
Limerick
John Harts
examinacion
257
Reu:
Henry Rugg
Philip Bisse