Deposition of Ann Slater

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Ann late the Wife of Tho: Slatter of Downe Durragh in the Barony of Kilneleg Kynellea in the Countie of Corke yeoman And now the Wife of Edmund Nicholson of Kingsale in the aforesaid Countie the Marchant (a Brittish Protestant) duely sworne & Examined by vertue of a & c deposeth & saith That on or about Candlemasse last & since the begining of this present rebellion in Ireland, shee lost, was robbed & forceably robbed & dispoiled of her goods & Chattles to the severall values following vidzt worth 400 li. due from the vndernamed parties
Of Oxen, steers, Cowes, heifers, horses, Mares, Colts at Downe Durragh & Kinsale aforesaid, to the value of One hundred fortie six pownds, Of houseing & houshould stuffe to the value of Sixtie Pownds, Of Corne vpon the ground vpon Downe Daniell lands & vpon the Plow Land of Clavodin with in the Countie aforesaid to the value of Eighty Pownds The deponent saith that by reason of this rebellion shee is dispossessed of three severall farmes, One c alled the Plowland Cullo of Clavodin as aforesaid, having a Lease thereof of ffifteene yeares yett to Come worth aboue the Lords rent Twentie Nobles per annum, shee saith that in this Lease shee is dampnified Thirtie Two pownds, Of one other Lease of Downe Daniell aforesaid , shee hath a Lease of seven yeares yett to Come , worth aboue the Lords rent five pownds per Annum shee valueth at Twelue pownds One other Lease at Downe Durragh aforesaid, wherein shee hath seventeene yeares to Come worth five pownds per annum aboue the Lords Rent valued in Twentie pownds In Debts to the value of ffiftie pownds, by the parties whose names are vnderwritten vidzt
Patrike Roch of Polie Long
Shreiffe Long of Mount Long
John mc Kyre & Donnell mc Dermond of Ballytubber
Tho: Symmes of Kilbegg
Dermond mc Teig ô Morish
Daniell ô Hearly of Ballnoonruey
Teig mc Dermond & & Robert mc Morish of Downe Daniell [ ]
all of these of lived in the Countie of Corke & nowe conceaued to be out in open & actuall [ ]
The Totall of all the aboue said Losses amounteth vnto the summe of ffower hundred pownds The deponent saith the foresaid Robberys Losses were acted, committed performed feloniously done taken away from her, by the aboue said Patrick Roch Shreive Long Barry Oge James Mallefant Mac Cartie Reagh of Kilbrittaigne in the Countie aforesaid with their associates, by whose meanes her husband slaughter slater & servant were murthered at Downe Durragh aforesaid

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And further she deposeth not
Ann [mark] Slaters marke
Jurat coram nobis
5o 8bris 1642
Phil: Bisse
Tristram Whetcombe
Ro: southwell

The examination of
Ann Slater alias Nicholson
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mc Carty reogh
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