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<A> Sir Robert Tirrell late of Hospitall in the barony of small County, and within the County of Corke Knight duly s w orne & examined before vs by vert{ue} etc: deposeth & sayth that on the 1t day of Jan: Anno Domini 1641 & since the begininng & by means of this present rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values of following v izt worth 1786 li.
Of Cowes, Oxen, steers, sheepe & horses swine & mares, to the value of three hundred pownds [&] [fuir ty] Of houshould stuffe of all sorts to the value of three hundred & fourty forty fiue pownds Of Implements of husbandry to the value of twenty pownds Of Corne & hey in house Of plate & mony to the summe of thirty eight pownds & haggard to the value of one hundred & fifty pownds Of Corne in groun{d} reapt by the rebells to the value of twenty pownds Of timber ready fram’d and other materials for the building of a house to the value of one hundred & fifty li. Of guns & other instrum nets & necessaryes comodityes to the value of fourty pownds with a parcell of linen & apparell etc to the value of [ fiuety ] eight po one hundred and 18teene po w nds Of sad d le & furniture belonging ten pownds Of apparrell & comodityes of diuers sorts three score pownds Of fuell to the value of thirty pownds Of books to the value of one hundred pownds
Of a debt to the summ{e}of thirty fiue pownds which ere this rebellion was esteemed a good debt but now become desperate by reason the debtour is an Impouerisht protestant, as William Godwin of the Hospitall aforesaid ioyner. Also this deponent sayth that be means of this rebellion he is dispo ssessed of a lease o n the Hospitall aforesaid wherein he hath a tearme of thirty one years at the begining of this rebellion worth fifty pownds per annum aboue the landLords rent wher wherein he conceaue s himselfe damnifyed to the value of three hundred pownds Of certayne houses which he built <that are> burnt by the rebbells at the Hospitall afores a id to the v a lue of one hundred pownds the totall of his losses amounts to the value of one thousa n d six seaun hundred fifty eighty six pownds sterling He further sayth that his liuing goods were takn away by Murtogh O Brien of Dough[h]arra in County of Tipperary gen, & John O Kenady of Lower Ormond gen with their followers to the number of 4 hundred to the nu this was don on the day aforsaid His houshould stuffe at the hospitall & implements of husbandry & Corne in haggard & hey & timber & guns etc was taken away by Dermod O Brien of Coanagh gen, & Morris Bogget <on 26t of march 1642> of Boggetstowne gen; the other part of his houshould stuffe & goods as mony & plate at Loughguire was tak’n away by the Lord of Castle conell Peirce Walsh of the Abbey of Owney Esquire; a reputed Seriant Mai{or} among the rebbells for the whole Prouince of Munster Patrick Brett a reputed Capt: Tibb{ot} Burk of Ballynegard gen; and Dr Higgins of Limrick this was don about the 28th of August last and he also sayth that a prime horse val: 40ty li. with his furniture was with a sword, dagger & a petornell were tak’n aw{ay} by one Robert ffreeman of Aney nere the hospitell yeoman this was don about the 4{rd} of ffebruary 1641; his corne in grownd at the hospitall: was reapt & carryed away by the appoyn{ } of the Lord of Castle Conell about the latter end of August & Begininng of Sept last to his Castle his apparell & other necessaryes were ta{ken} away by one Walter Browne one of the Lord of Castleconell souldyers & his confederats {who}<walter> pretended to be the deponents guide to come along with him from Kilmallock to Macc{ } of Downerayle; saying that he would go & serue vnder in Sir John Brownes Company but {on} the way at a place nere c alld fflemingstowne they all robbd him, and stript him all m{ } naked vpon the 4th of Sept: in the euening He also sayth that Mrs Mary Burk of Ca{stle} Conell, eldest Sister to the Lord of Castle Conell about the midle of August last sent abou{t} ten rebbells, men, and women in mens apparrell to robb the house of Thomas B{urk?} gen whose house was within a slight shot of her owne house; who accordingly robbd the{m} of all that they had; the said gentlemans wife, being brought a bedd but two or three n{ights} before was fayne to fly to a bogg and there sate the most part of her in the water to safe her life: the said Tho: Burk & his wife & his si wifes sister being since g{on} to masse; the deponent sayth that being driu’n to necessity he was forct to go to the Lord of Castleconell for refuge he being his Kinsman where who promisd to conduct him safe {to} Downerayle within a fortnight, but howeuer there he remayned for the space of 7 or ei{ght} weeks, being sick all the while & scarce able to go out of doors, which is the cause { } he cannot report much of the carriadge of the rebbells there during that time, { } at length came away wit being robd by the way & in great daunger of his life he {also} sayth that during the time he was at the but taking of Loughguire when it was taken, he he heard ffriar { } of Limrick, & ffriar Teig of Kilmallock to magnify the seruice of the rebbells and that { } all they were worsted at the Battle of Liscarroll, they could spare 500 men a mon{th} till may day; & that they hoped that ere Candlemas day following they should would leaue n{ } an English garrison in the province he also sayth that John Story of Castleconell gen & his wife with their three sons & one daughter being cruelly vsd by the means of the Lord of Castleconell afterwa{rds} went to masse & further he cannot depose besids that one James Gould of Corbally in the County of Lim Esquire was shott & killd by a shot from the Castle of , and as one John o Ken{ } of [ ] vpper [Desmond] gen: boasted himselfe that he had killd one of the birds of the ne{ } and that he would haue the best { }
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he also sayth that the Lord of Castleconell, about the begininng of March last vpon the Lands of Loughgwire Castle vttered these words in the presence of a hundred rebbells at least and in the hearing of the deponent; that if he did thinke that he did any thing in this action contrary to he kings authority & mind, that he would sooner ripp his bowells out of his owne body
Robert Tyrrell
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