Deposition of Edward Liffe

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1382
Edward Liffe late of the Towne & parish of Rathcormack & barony of Castlelyons and within the County of Corke miller (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined by vertue of his Maiesties &c deposeth and saith That on or aboute the shrouetide last and diuers times since the begining of this present rebellion in Ireland he lost and was robbed and forceably dispoyled of his goods to the seuerall values followeing vizt worth 111 li.
Of houshould stuffe & corne in this deponents house to the value of three pounds The deponent further saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed lost the benefitt of the lease of a mile of Rathcormacke aforesaid in the said County wherin he had a lease of fiue and thirtie yeeres or therabouts yeett to come woorth Coibus annis aboue the land lords rent fifteene pounds per annum per annum haueing Improued built the same bysides fenceing the same which lease this deponent valueth to bee woorth one hundred pounds Of Timber boords and wood to the value of eight pounds The totall of his losses amounts to the sume of one hundred & eleaven pounds & that by the meanes of Morris lord Roch his son whose name he knoweth not John Condon & Richard both of BallymcPatrick Theobald Purcell alias Baron of Loghmore & Captaine Sherlock & diuers others & as this deponent i s credibly informed of their company whose names this deponent knoweth not The deponent saith The deponent saith that John Wetherell an English protestant late of Castle Gon parish taylor was robbed murthered by John Condon of ballydurgen in the City of County of Corke gentleman as it was confessed by the said Wetherell himself before he dyed & further saith that ffrances Tucker of Gortroe in the said County weauer his wife & children William Collins of Rathcormacke in the said County husbandman
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& diuers others English and protestants were stripped by the aboue named rebells & further he cannot depose
Edward [mark] Liffes marke
Jurat coram nobis
26o July 1642
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell

The examination of
Edward Liffe
Corke
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