Deposition of Ann Sellers

fol. 177r

1807
Ann Sellers late of Bohownah parish of Rosse Carbray in the barony of Carbray, & within the County of Corke widdow (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute Candlemas last & diuers times since t & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland she lost was robbed & forceably dispoiled of her goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vzt value of 139 li.
Of Cowes and horses to the value of twenty pounds Of houshould goods and one gould ring to the value of nyne pounds. Of Corne in the haggard to the value of twenty pounds. s he is also dispossessed of a tucking mill vpon the said land at Bahownah with a parcell of land belonging to the same woorth ten pounds per annum aboue the landlords rent hauing a tearme of one & twenty yeares wherein she is damnified twenty sixty pounds also she is dispossessed of the benefit of a greist mill at Bahownah aforesaid worth fiue pownds per annum aboue the LandLords rent, hauing a tearme of twenty one ye ares yet to come in which she c once i us her selfe damnifyed the value of thirty pownds. the totall of her losses amounts to the value of one hundred thirty nine pounds she also sayth that John Barry of Rathb Rowurdedy castle, in the parish of Rathbarry gentleman Teig O Hey of Kilgarriffe gentleman of Kilgarriffe, gentleman Daniel O Donouane of of East Kirigi[licky] gentleman Rikard O Donauane of Tob gentleman brothr to the said Daniell ffinin mc Carty of Rosse Carbray gentleman William Barry nere Offry gentleman Tho: Mahon of Rathbarry gentleman with diuers others to the number of 5 or 600d rebbells tooke away the deponents goods aforesaid at the time aforesaid, and at the same time beseidgd the said castle of Downededy and tooke the same vpon quarter the who hauing tak’n this deponent, & diuers others, the said John Barry cald vp to mr Richard Hungerford gouernour of the said Castle, wishing him also to come downe, or else, he would quarter the deponent & others, & soe serue them vp in dishes to him; which said Richard Barry when he was come downe, the said John Barry calld him treacherous rogue & rascall & told his two sons, that they should rather haue bound their father & so haue made him to giue vp the castle, and that they should not haue turn’d rebbells too: in which Castle the said deponent was kept prisoner a weeke, and after escapt to Rathbarry Castle for refuge.
She also sayth that about Easter Last one Christopher Crosse seruant to mr ffreike was murderd with skeins & piks, of Rathbarry, and Thomas Tantalus of Rosse Carbry barber was hangd by the iugdment of ffinin mc Carty of Benduffe gentleman, & Teig Merigo nere Benduffe gentleman; also she sayth that her

fol. 177v

1808
husband John Sellers, seruant to mr ffreike, was murder’d nere the Castle of Rathbarry about the begining of Septemb: by an ambush of an hundred rebbells, hauing first killd 3 of the rebbells; & further she deposeth not:
Anne [mark] Sellers marke
Jurat coram nobis 4 Oct:
1642
Phil: Bisse
Tristram WhetCombe
Ro: southwell

The examination
of Ann Seller:
Cork 440

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