Deposition of Thomas Carter

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Thomas Carter sin o ir the elder of Macaklop in the barony of Casmore & Cosbree in in the County of Watterford yeoman (a brettis h protestant) being dewly sowrn e & Examined by vertue &c deposeth & saith that on or vppon Candellmas last hee was robbed of his goods & Chattells to the vallues ffollowing vizt value of 673 li. part consisting of
Of Cowes steers steers heiffers tow bules eight horses to the vallue of tow two hundred ten pounds Of Corne in the haggard to the vallue of twenty pounds hee saith that that hee was expelled and driuen Away from his said ffarme & howse wher hee left in Corne in ground to the vallue of Eight pounds: of Leather lost takn out of my tan yard three score pounds of depts to the summe of 160 li. which hee esteemed good debts bee fore t his present rebellion and now bee com desperatt by reson som ar deue ffrom Impouershed protestants Amounting to the soms of hundred pounds dew vppon as Christopher Crocker of Lismore in the barony of Coshmore & Casbreedy gentleman & Tho: Powell a protestant and others debts due from Rebells as Owen o Dorney of Littrum in county of Corke husbandm: & Edmund mc Krath of the same parish & County, William Linch of Mc Kollup in said County of Waterford husbandm: Cnoghor O Gorman of said parish & county Donogh O Gormon in the said parish & County & diuers others whose names he cannot now remember he al s o sayth that he hath lost the benefit of his one Of two his leases of Kilmurry of one of his lease in Kilmurry in the parish of Littrum & county of Corke where in he had a tearme of 98 years yet to come worth thirty pounds per annum ouer & aboue the Land Lords Ren t , wherein he conceiue himselfe to be damnifyed 200 li. and of another lease in Kilmurry wherein he had a tearme of 95 years yet to come worth twelue pounds per annum aboue the Land Lords rent in which he conceiue himselfe to be damnifyed being well Improued in the summe of 150 li. <a s > also he hath lost his benefit of another lease of part of the plowland belonging to the Castle of Mc Collup aforesaid wherein he had a lease tearme of aboue thirty years yet to come, worth aboue ten pownds per annum abou{e} the Land Lords rent in which he conc e iue to be damnifyed one hundred pownds He also sayth that he [ ] aboute the time aboue m e n coned robd by the means of John & Richard Cundon of Ballymc Patrick gentlemen: & John Cundon & Richard Cundon of Ballydurgin gentleman and one Capt: Grace late of Cloughleah in the Parish of Kilyet in county of Corke together with their followers & Tenants & John Mc Donogh of Dungalane Castle in the parish of Mocroney gentleman & Tho: mc Shane late of <county of Corke> Clough leah gentleman: and James mc Morris of Epsilring in the county of Waterford gentleman: Teig Odagh seruant to the deponent with diuers others whose names he cannot remember he also sayth that one Tho: Corvan taylor & James Dober potter of Mc Kollup Castle English protestants & Philip Andews Gardner & Edmund Gibbon labourer of Mc Kollup aforesaid were all murderd by the Cundons of BallymcPatrick & Ballydurgin, the said Cundons company cutt off the said Dobers nose after he was killd and the said Gibbons was enforced by them to digg his owne graue & then, that don they murderd him; he also sayth that by the Rebells aforesaid the deponent & his son

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Thomas Carter had no lesse then fifteene thirteene houses, of dwelling & out houses burnd downe to the ground: by the said Rebells he lastly sayth that Morris Count of Mc Kollup aforesaid husb broagmaker & Edmond Mahune in said parish husbandman, formerly reputed protestants & since this rebellion turned papists And further he cannot depose the totall of his losses amount to the summe of six hundred seaunty three pounds
Thomas [mark] Carter Senior his marke
Jurat coram nobis 15th
of June: 1642
Phil: Bisse
Tho Badnedge

The examination of
Thomas Carter thelder
Waterford
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Reu
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Thomas Carter of in the parish of Mackolop