Deposition of Judith Walcott

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Judith Walcott widowe late the wife of Thomas Walcott late of the parish of St Nicholas without the walls of Dublyn deceased sworne saith That in the moneth of November Anno Domini 1641 being since the begining of this Rebellion the said Thomas Walcott and shee were robd & spoild at Clownyns in the County of Kildare being a farme he held by Lease from Sir Nicholas White knight of ffower hundred English sheep one hundred pounds two horses & one Cowe seaven pounds, Corne in the haggard eight pounds, A Reeke of hay fiftene pounds, and twelue acres of Corne vpon the ground forty pounds <A> All which Cattell & goods were taken from him by the said Sir Nicholas Whites Irish Tenants and the Cattell were divided amongst them by one ffitz Garrold who was steward & Agent for the said Sir Nicholas White Also the said Thomas Walcott & shee were robd & spoild since the said moneth of November 1641 at Kiltipper in the parrish of Tallough in the County of Dublin by the Rebells of that County whose names they knew not, of threescore and seaven English sheep twenty pounds A faire howse and outhowses lately built burnt by the Rebells threescore pounds <bu> The lease of that Land for thirty yeres to come worth one hundred pounds per annum about the rent. Also the said Thomas Walcott & shee were robd & spoild att their farme neere Ropers rest by Dublyn since the said moneth of November 1641 att severall tymes by the Rebells whose names they knowe not of three and thirty Irish Cowes fforty pounds, twelue horses twenty pounds ffowerscore sheep two & thirty pounds and two and twenty English Cowes threescore pounds. And lastly <ffeln> since Michaelmas now Last the Rebells being many in nomber came in the night to their howse neere Ropers rest and broke open the dores & he demaunding who they were, answered they were Luke Tooles men & then were they murdred & massacred the said Thomas Walcott who had at the least forty wounds on his body with skeanes and robd them of Nynetene faire English Cowes ffifty pounds, and since his death shee was robd of <ffelin> Reek of hay ffower pounds. All which [ ] present losses amount to ffive hundred fifty & six pounds
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Judith Walcott
Jur 29o Oct 1642
Joh Watson:
Will: Aldrich
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Dublin
Judith Walcott Jur
29o Oct 1642
Intw Cert fact
Kildare
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