Deposition of Andrew ffoster

fol. 49r

1132
Andrew ffoster of Mocredin alias Caryes fort in the County of wickloe gentleman sworne & examined sayth deposeth vpon oath
That on the 14th day of November now last past: hee this deponent {a}t Mocredine alias Carys fort aforesaid was robbed dispoiled {&} deprived of his goodes and chattles of the values following vizt of horses geldinges and mares and Coltes worth xxxvij li. x s. {o}f beastes and cattle worth ffowrscore and fiue six Powndes x s. {s}heepe worth lv li. Corne & hay xxx li. Money and plate worth fowrscore Powndes, howshold goodes and provition worth nynety five powndes 7 s.: And by the meanes of this presente rebellion this deponent is expelled stripped & deprived of his howse & farme called Shanoghbeg in the County of Wickloe which he had in Leas for 31 yeres in being from William Greanie Esquire this deponentes interest therein being worth L li. And this deponent as he conceiveth is thereby alsoe stripped and deprived of debtes owing vnto him by such as are now in actuall Rebellion the some of Lvj li. x s. Soe that his {l}osse in all amounteth to the some of fowre hundreth Eightie one powndes ster And saith that the Rebells that soe robbed and dispoiled him were Luke Toole of Castle Kavenaghe {in} the County of Wickloe Esquire called by the Rebells their Collonel John Mc Brian Birne of Carrickcroe in the same County gentleman {L}uke mc Redmond Birne of Kilclogheran Esquire Garrott Birne {o}f Tentwore Esquire James Birne of Tecronen gent Cahir Birne of gent Donnogh Carragh Birne of Clone gent the Captaine of those Rebells Tirlagh Duff Birne of Ballegawghom {g}ent Edmund mc Dowlin Birne of Corshancashlane gent Art Birne of Ballaghlaugar gent Richard mc Laughlin of Castle McAdam Esquire William Duff Birne of Ballyshanetirriffe gentleman Brian mc Tirlaghe of gent all of the parish County of Wickloe {with} divers others notorious Rebells their souldjers complicees or assistantes to the number of Seven hundreth at the least: which said Rebells alsoe stript this deponent his wife and nyne small children of all their clothes exposeing them to vnwonted cold & want & forceing them for saffty of their lives to forsake their habitacion & fly to Dublin where they are now in great misery for want of Releefe And then the said Rebells said that they would within one week burne dublin And that neither king nor queene shold governe Ireland any longer, for they wold governe it themselves
Andrew ffoster
William Aldrich
John Sterne
fol 49v
1133

49 Wickloe 103
Andrew ffoster 17o february 1641
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