Deposition of Robert Burden

fol. 255r

1294
Robert Burden the younger of Grange within the parish of the Ovens, the Barony of Barretts & County of Corke (a Brittish protestant) being duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of his Maiesties Comission to vs & others directed beareinge date at Dublin the 5th day of march in the 17th yeere of his Maiesties raigne that nowe is touching the losses & sufferings of the Brittish & protestants within the province of Munster deposeth & saith. That on or aboute Candlemas Last he was robbed of his goods & Chattles to the values followeing vizt.
Of his cowes mares & horses & sheepe to the value of two and fiftie pounds ten shillings. Of his corne & hay two to the value of two pounds fifteene shillings. Of his houshould stuffe linnen & woollen to the value of twenty shillings. Of his corne in the grounds to the value of nynteene pounds sterling which he conceaues to be lost beinge he was expelled & driuen away from his said house & farme by meanes of this rebellion. He further saith that he was robbed of the premisses at night aboute two a clocke by the rebells whose names he knoweth not. And further he cannot depose. The totall of his losses amonts to three score & fifteene pounds ten five shillings.
Robert [mark] Burden his marke
Jurat coram nobis 29o
Aprilis 1642
Ni: Philpot
Phil: Bisse
Richard ffrench

fol. 255v

1295

Cork
The examination of Robert
Burden
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