Deposition of Walter Bartram

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1651
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Walter Bartram in the towne and parish of dongaruan & Baron y of the Deces yeoman In the County of watterford (a brittish protestant) being de w ly sowrne & Examened by vertue &c deposeth & saeth that in & vppon the 9[ ] of Januarie last hee was robbed of his goods & & Chattells to the values ffowllowing viz worth 218 li. Partly consisting of debts owing vnto him by those that are in Rebellion & are hereafter named
of his Cowes and Heiffers to the vallue of thirty six pounds of his howshold stufe rings Juells & other pa w nes to the vallue of twenty pounds of a horsmeld and a hen howse to the value of fforty pounds ten stocks of bees to the vallue of ten pounds in haye in stacke worth tow pounds The deponent saith that the vndernamed persons vizt Walter White [ ] of Dungarvan aforesaid merchant Robert Nagle of the same merchant Richard Dalton of Dung the parish of dungarvan gentleman Elizabeth Bateman of the same widdowe Phillipp mc Cragh of the same butcher Nicholas Martin with many others whose names he knoweth not are iustly indebted to this deponent in the sume of of one hundred & ten pounds butt in regard the said parties & are out in actuall rebell (except <except> the said Nicholas Martin & Elizabeth Batman whoe are impouerished protestants by meanes of this rebellion) therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them The totall of this deponents losses amountes to two hundred & eighteene pounds & further he canot depose besids this that he was robd by the hands & means of Capt: ffennell of Dongaruan Tho: Morley of the same Merchant John Hore ffitz Mathew & his Eldest son a Capt: among the Rebells with their tenants & followers; the said John was the man that betrayd the Castle of Dungaruan, with the Protestants therein to the Rebells after this manner, this John Hore sent his son in law his Brother Tho: Morley Hore & Tho: Morley of Dungaruan to the protestants on the said Castle telling them that they should do well to take in the Ladders in the Towne for fear of the Rebels scaling the Castle with the same; vpon that the said Tho: Hore & Tho: Morley with their assistants brought one of the ladders for with to receiue in, they of the Castle opened an Iron grate in a lower roome, which when it was halfe wayes thrust into the grate castle, the said Thomases made a stopp at the thrusting in of the ladder; vpon that they with their forces which lay in ambush for that bus’nesse presently fell to their arms which they had nere them and so enterd the Castle & tooke it, pertruding f{ } to the Protestants before in their aduise, who robd & stript & hurt who hurt som wounded some robd & stript all the Protestants there & so turnd them out of the said Castle the Names of the said Protestants there & so stript were Mrs Bolt the ministers wife of Dungaruan Henry Dauis claundler, & his wife, John Rawsells wife, William ffarmer Inkeeper & his wife Christopher Cheirtons wife, all of Dungaruan with diuers others whose names he cannot remember
<as also that> He further sayth that when the deponent askt the the said Eldest son of John Hore calld Mathew Hore why he did this namely to rise vp in rebellion the said Mathew answered this deponent that if we had not don this all our throats should be cutt
{Walter Bartram}
Jurat coram nobis
16o Junij 1642
{Jurat} coram nobis 16 June
{1642}
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1652
The examination of
Walter Bartrum
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Waterford
Reu
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