Deposition of Symon Bellers

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<Exw 93> Symon Bellers of the Citty of Dublin gent sworne and examined deposeth and saith That about the first of December 1641: he this Deponent Liveing at Eniscorfy in the County of Wexford was then and there with his wife & Children forceibly deprived & expelled from their howse dwelling and farmes there and of 2 mills, And was then and there alsoe forceibly robbed and dispoiled of Cowes horses Mares, yong Cattell howsholdgoods hay a tanyard with a greate quantety of Lether, barke & other goodes & meanes, of the value, & to his losse & damage of eight hundred Pownds at the least, And this deponent by meanes of the Rebellion is alsoe deprived and hath (as hee is perswaded lost in debts the summe of ffive hundred & forty Pownds at Least; And by meanes of the said Rebellion this deponent hath had seuerall howses within the suburbs of Dublin pulled downe & wasted, And is alsoe further dampnified in losse of rents thereof five hundred pownds more And saith that the Rebells in the County of Wexford that rase vp in Armes & deprived & dispoiled him of his howses farms mills tanyard bark lether & other goodes were Peirs Butler of Clanekerry in that County Esquire Joseph ffarrell of Eniscorfy aforesaid merchant

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Marchant: & the lord Mountgarrett, with the friers of Wexford but the rest he cannott name, howbeit all the papists in that Cuntry (as he is verely perswaded rase and tooke vp Armes in the verie begining of December 1641 aforesaid, and robd all the protestants in the Cuntry thereabouts, and amongst the rest they robbed expelled and deprived Mr William Swainton late of the Court of Eniscorfie aforesaid Esquire this deponents wifes owne father of his howses lands farmes & all his estate at Eniscorfy & elswhere within the County of Wexford and kingdome of Ireland of the value of ffowre thowsand Powndes (as this deponent is verely perswaded) besides divers other debts specialities & other evidencs of great value concerning his Lands in England. And this deponents father (whose only child he is) was alsoe [in] about the begining of December aforesaid robbed & deprived of a farme goods & chattells at Clonee in the County ofof the value, and to his losse of eight hundred Pownds by the Rebells of that County: And saith that the honorablenow Baron of Dunsany confessed, that he had a great part of this deponents late fathers said goods at Clonee aforesaid: And this deponent is Like to loose in rents and proffitts of his howsing and tenements in the suburbs of Dublin the future summe of one hundred & twenty Powndes per Annum, vntill a peace be established: And by meanes of this said Rebellion this deponent hath by inforcement lent money to his maiesties Army & borne such heavy Cesse presse & other taxations, charges & impositions that he is thereby dampnified One hundred & threescore powndes more: Soe that his present losses by meanes of the Rebellion besides the future proffitts of his howses tenements & farmes in the Suburbs of Dublin, doe amount vnto the summe of twoe thowsand six hundred & forty Powndes ster: The future proffitts being Cxx li. per Annum as aforesaid. Jur 16 Jan: 1645 coram Hen: Clogher et Willelmo Aldrich
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