Deposition of Nicholas Ham

fol. 192r

1983

Nicholas Ham late of Ballrinstick in the parish of Clonleade in the barony of kynellea & within the County of Corke gentleman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith That on or aboute the 28th of March 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 following vizt worth 180 li. 10 s. And
Of Cowes oxen heiffers horses & mares to the value of fiftie foure pounds. Of hay & Corne in the haggard and house to the value of foure & twenty pounds. Of houshould stuff & Timber to the value of foure pounds. Of Implements of husbandry to the value of three pounds ten shillinges. The deponent further saith that by meanes of this presente rebellion in Ireland he is dispossessed of his said ffarme of Ballensticke wherin he hath a lease of thirteene yeeres yeett to come woorth ouer & aboue the landlords rent twelue eleven pounds per annum wherin he is damnified one hundred pounds. The total of his losses amounts to one hundred & foure score pounds ten shillings He is credibly informed that aboute the time aboue specified he was robbed in the day time of his said goods by Cormacke o daly of Lisnecreely in the said County yeoman William o daly of the same yeoman Bryan o daly of Balgooly in the said County yeoman donogh o daly of the same husbandman & diuers others

fol. 192v

1984

this deponent is informed of this truth heerof by his wife Ann Ellen Ham & his son Erington Ham & his son by Phillipp Cooke <B> whoe were taken prisoners aboute the same time by Phillipp Barry alias Barry oges men & kepte them in restrainte two or three dayes & further he deposeth not.

Nicholas Ham
Jurat coram coram nobis
4o 8bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Tristram Whetcombe

The examination of
Nicholas Ham
C. 452
Cork