1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Deposition of Richard White

Reference: MS 825, fols 014r-014v
County: Cork
Date: 18/8/1642
Type: Bisse
Nature of Deposition: Robbery, Lost by debt

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Richard White late of Scartynarrowe in the parish of Gort r oe & barony of Barrymore & within the County of Corke husbandman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue &c deposeth & saith That on or aboute the begining of ffebruary last & 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 followin{g} vizt value of 49 li. 8 s.
Of Cowes heeffers steeres yeerlings & one sowe at Scartynarrowe aforesaid to the value of two & thirtie pounds fifteene shillings Of houshould stuffe to the value of fortie shillinges Of hay to the value of thirteene shillings & foure pence Of debts amounting to the sume of foure pounds due from the vndernamed persons protestants vizt John Durd i n an English protestant vtterly dissenabl { ed } by meanes of this rebellion therefore the deponent cannot get satisfaction from him The deponent saith that he hath a lease of a parcell of land parte of S cartynarrowe aforesaid for fifteene yeeres yeett to come being woorth yeerly to this deponent forty shillings per annum wherin he is damnified the sume of ten pounds The totall of his losses amounts to nyne & fortie pounds eight shill The deponent saith And that foure of his said Cowes were taken away by John Tirrell of Carnevarr in the said County gentleman in the day time in a rebellious maner accompanyed with two others whose names he knoweth not & one Richard Barry of Ballinalty in the said County gentleman was then & there in company with the said John & further he deposeth not
Richard [mark] Whites marke
Jurat coram nobis 18o
August 1642
Phil: Bisse Jam: Wallis
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The examination of
Richard White
Cork 397
Re

James Wallis
Philip Bisse