Deposition of Joseph Scott & Humphrye Wood

Collection: Bysse Depositions

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
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Date: 1642-09-20
Identifier: 823201r181

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Cork
Deposition Type: Bysse
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping
Commissioners: Philip Bisse, Thomas Graye
Deposition Transcription:


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Joseph Scott late of Killineere in the parish of Marragh, Baronry of Kinalmeeha county of Corke Chaundler duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue etc: deposeth & sayth that about the last of Jan: last past & since the begining of this rebellion he lost was robbed & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following Vizt value of 447 li. sterling
Of Cowes hoses & swine to the value of eighty fiue pownds ten shillings Of houshold stuffe to the value of twenty pownds Of Implemts of husbandry to the value of thirty shillings: He also sayth that he was hath lost the benefit of a lease of Killeneere afore sa id wherein he had a tearm{e} of four score years yet vnexpired, worth com mun ibus annis ten pounds per annum aboue the land Lords rent, in which he conceiue himselfe damnifyed one to the value of one hundred pownds: also [ ] the b enefit of another lease nere Rusistowne wherein he had a tearme of one & twenty years, worth com mun ibus annis twenty pownds p e r annum aboue the land Lords rent, in which he conceiue himselfe damnifyed to the value of six score pownds; also of another lease in the parish of Kilmurry wher e in he had a tearme of twenty fower years yet to come worth com mun ibus annis aboue the land Lords rent seaun pownds ten shillings: wherein he conceiue himselfe damnifyed to the value of fifty pownds also lost seaun acres of oates elsewhere to the value of seaun pownds the totall of his losses amounts to the summe of fower hundred fourty seaun pownds sterling: He sayth that he was robbd by the rebbells whose names he knoweth not he sayth that one Samuell Byshop of the Gagan in the baronry of Kinalmecha weauer was stabd with a skeane & then shot, & <a> then was hangd afterwards at Kilcree by the rebbells about the middle of august last: and [ Martin ] [ Colman ], he also sayth that one Richard Addis of Bandon bridge shoomaker; and Henry Churchfeild of the same Joyner were stript & murdred most cruelly by the rebbells; about the 15th of August nere Corkenash Castle & further he cannott depose
Joseph Scott
Humfery Wood
Jurat coram nobis 20 th of sept:
1642
Tho: Gray Dec: Phil Bisse
at the same time came before vs Humphrye Wood of Killenere aforesaid Joyner; and vpon examinacion tooke his oath that the examinacion of Joseph Scott was true in all particulars
Jurat coram nobis 20 of Sept:
1642
Tho: Graye Dec:
Phil: Bisse


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Joseph Scott’s Exam:
Corke
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Deponent Fullname: Joseph Scott, Humphrye Wood
Deponent Gender: Male, Male
Deponent Occupation: Chandler, Joiner
Deponent County of Residence: Cork,
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: Samuell Byshop, Richard Addis, Henry Churchfeild
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Victim, Victim, Victim