Deposition of John Warren

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John Warren late of Newmarket in the parish of Clonfarta barony of Duhalla and within the County of Corke Tanner (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined before vs by vertue of a Comission vnder the broad seale of this kingdome (beareing date the 5th day of March 1641) concerneing the robberies and spoiles since this rebellion comitted vpon the brittish and protestants within the Province of Munster &c deposeth and saith That vpon the 25th day of december 1641 or therabouts he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt worth 159 li.
Of cowes and horses to the value of nyne & Twenty pounds Of houshould stuff & prouision to the value of thirtie pounds The deponent further deposeth that by meanes of this presente rebellion he was dispossessed of a tuckeing mill & a grist mill at Clonmyne in the said County wherin he hath a lease of nyne & Twenty yeeres yeet to come woorth coibus annis ten pounds per annum aboue the landlords rent , his enterest in the same before this rebellion was woorth one hundred pounds The totall of his losses amounts to one hundred fiftie nyne pounds . He alsoe saith that aboute the time aboue mencioned fiue of this deponents cowes were taken away by Cormacke oge Downe of Carragh in the said County gentleman his cause of knowledge is that he beheld & sawe the said Cormacke in the day time with halfe a score armed men in company with him <hand> driueing away the said Cowes. Aboute Easter last this de

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comeing from Richardstowne in the said County to Clonmeene found one John Millet of Malloe in the said County carrier & two other English men murthererd hard by the Riuer of the Lee in the said County, not farrr <hand> from the place where the lord of Muskry & others of <B> the gentlemen of the said County kepte their campe, the deponent doth verily beleeue that the said parties were murthered by directions from the said lord of Muskry & the rest of the prime gentlemen then in the said Campe with him . the motiue that induceth this deponent soe to beleeue is in regard the said Millet & the rest were seene by this deponent kepte prisoners the day before in the said campe, and likewise sawe them sent away with a convay which convay murthered them. The deponent lastly saith that he hard diuers of the rebells say (at Clonmeene aforesaid & at other places) that they would choose Sir Phelemy o Neile their kinge of this kingdome; this was likewise affirmed to this deponent by one Thomas Justice (an English man & formerly a protestant but since this rebellion turned papist) being in conferenc with this deponent at Clonmeene aforesaid, for ought (quoth he) that I can learne or perceaue by them (meaneing the rebells) they purpose to make Sir Phelemy o Neile kinge of Ireland, for soe I heere them talke among themselues or woords to that effecte, the particular names of those that spoke these woords vnto him he did not then relate to this deponent & further he deposeth not
John [mark] Warrens
marke
Jurat coram nobis 21o
feb: 1642
Phil: Bisse
Ric: Williamson

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John Warrens examination
for the murther of John Millett and
2 D others [ ] nere the River
of Lee
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Cork
Lo: Muskery
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