Deposition of Ann Baker

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Ann Baker Late of Knockord in the parish of Brui es and barony of ClanWilliam & within the County of Tipperary widdowe (a brittish protestant) duely sworn e & examined of by vertue of &c. for and in the behalfe of her selfe and her son Walter Baker & fiue other Orphants the her children of this deponent shee deposeth & saith. That on or aboute Candlemas day last & diuers times since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland she lost & was robbed and forceably dispoiled of her goods and Chattles to the seuerall values follo w ing vizt worth 7657 li. Part consisting of debts owing & due by
Of Cowes oxen horses mares & sheepe to the value of two thousand se a ven hundred pounds. Of houshould stuffe of all sorts to the value of foure hundred & fiftie pounds Of Corne in the haggard & house to the value of fiue hundred foure score & nynteene pounds. O f ready mony the sume of three hundred pounds. The deponent saith that by meanes of this rebellion shee & her said Orphants were dispossessed of the seuerall farmes following vizt. Of the Towne & lands of Kno ckord in & Ballinecleragh in the County of Tipperary wherin the said deponents late husband deceased had a lease of twelue yeeres yeett to come woorth Comunibus annis aboue the landlords rent two hundred & fortie three score pounds per annum which lease is woorth to be soul d two hundred & fortie pounds. O f the Towne & lands of Lattin in the said Co unty woorth Comunibus annis three score & te n pounds per annum haueing lease therin of three yeers yeet to come In which lease together with a fin e payed for the same by this deponents said husband this deponent & her said children is therin damnified to the value of two hundred & ten pounds. Of the

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lands of Ballinealluff Killmenalluff in the said County wherin this deponent & her said children had a lease for thirtie yeeres to come woorth Comunibus annis aboue the landlords rent forty pounds per annum wherin this deponent & her children are damnified three hundred & three score pounds. Of the Town e and lands of Buollinsillagh in the said County the lease therof being sixteene yeeres yeett vnexpired woorth de Claro aboue the rent rese r ued threescore & ten pounds which lease (considering the fiue which this deponents said husband payd for the same in his lifetime) is woorth to be sould foure hundred & fiftie p o unds. Of the Castle Towne and lands of Tuoghcloggin in the County of Limerick haueing a lease therin for eight yeeres to come woorth Comunibus annis aboue the landlords rent twenty pounds per annum wherin the deponent is damnified three score pounds. . Likewise of the lands of Ballyorgan in the said County haueing a lease therin of eight & twenty yeeres to come woorth Comun i bis annis aboue the rent reserued fortie pounds per annum which lease the deponent valueth to be woorth three hundred & twenty pounds sterling Of which debts which were accounted goode debt before this presente rebellion amounting to the sume of <B> two thousand threescore & seaventeene pounds due vpon the vndernamed persons vizt Piers English Phillipp English & Garrett English of Solloghode in the said County of Tipperary gentleman Sir John mc Crath Knight & baronet Connor Gare ô Hiffernan of Coolenepishy in the said County gentleman Mortagh Boy o Hiffernan of Lattin in the

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<C> said County gentleman Phillipp Sexton of Ballycormuck in the said County Esquire Vllick Roch of Ballindangen in the County of Corke gentleman Patrick o Meary of Ballinimresogh in the said County of Tipperary gentleman Miles Magrath of Killinenaluffe in the said County of limericke gentleman with diuers others of the Irish indebted vpon sundry bills bonds & bookes of accounts robbed & taken away by the rebells whereby this deponent is not able to remember their names Butt in regard thaboue said parties are out in actuall rebellion therefore this deponent nor her said Orphants cannot gett satisfaction from them. The totall of this deponents & said childrens losses amounts to seaven Thousand six hundre d fiftie seaven pounds besides the losse of the benefitt of two seuerall mortgadges amounting to one thousand two hundred pounds vpon the lands of Kilgobbane & Mitchelstowne in the County of Limericke & vpon the lands o Solloghodemore in the County of Tipperary which this deponent leaues to Consideration. The deponent further saith that shee & her children were robbed of their said <D> goods about the time aboue mencioned by Sir Edward ffizt Harris Knight Sir John mcCrath Knight Murtagh mc Connor o Brien of Pallas in the County of Limericke gentleman Connor mc Donogh Glass[ ] of Cuonogh in the said County gentleman Murtogh boy o Hiffernan of Lattin aforesaid gentleman Anlon mc Murtogh Morogh o Brien of Cullinagh in the said County of Tipperary gentleman Miles mc Crath of Killenenalluffe in the said County of Tipperary limericke gentleman John mc Donogh of Lattin aforesaid yeoman William ffitton of Any in the said County of limerick Esquire & ffrances Morris son to Sir John Morris Knight in Com Tip p e rary neere Cashell their followers and forces. The deponent lastly saith that Thomas Baker deceased the deponents husband haueing mainteined his Castle 16. weeckes.

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<E> Against the rebells dyed Leaueing therin his wife and six children & two dayes after his death the castle was strongly besiedged by the lord Mountgarrett and his forces the lords of Ikerin & Dunboyne Theobald Purcell baron Loghmay & their forces & most of the rebells of Tipperary & limerick & the warders haueing spent their prouision of powder with continuall exchanging of bulletts (whoe shot for 48 houres) they were inforced at last to giue vp the Castle vpon quarter where they were not onely stripped of their wearing apparell but robbed of all their mony bills bounds mortgardges leases estates & goods whatsoeuer & this deponent & her said poore distressed being stripped of all were then & there stripp turned out of the doores in a Lamentable manner & further she deposeth not
Ann [mark] Bakers mark
Jurat coram nobis
8o die July 1642
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell

Tipperary
The examination of
Ann Baker
C 369

Mr Fikttpn et al hand

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