Deposition of Robert Basse

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Robert Basse of Gurtenleghard in the parishe of Killmanman in the Queens County a Brittish Protestant dulye sworne & examined sayth that vpon St Andrews daye Last att the night tyme this deponent was dispossessed robbed & despoyled of the goods Cattle & rents vnder mentioned to theis valews and summes to each of them respectiuely annexed
In household stuffe _____________40 li._0_0
In Cowes & horses _____________60 li_0_0
It in an anuiety of 24 li. per annum for fourescore
yeeres yet vnexpired, which ______24 li. per annum
In debts & rents ________________35 li._0_0
The principall robbers and rebbells that robbed this deponent and wer in rebellion in the barony of <A> Territory of Oregan wer Daneill Dunne of Tennihynch gentleman the servants of Richard Reddine of Clarehill esquire which Reddine stad staid in the high waye before the doore of one Palmer an English man neere this deponents house att the tyme of the robbery committed by the rebells aforesaid which Reddine the said deponent hath att seuerall tymes seen in the Company of the army of the Rebells when they wer robbing & spoyling of the kings Loyall subjects, And he sayth that for securing & defending of some part of his goods this deponent Carried them to the house of Barnaby Dun of Brittas esquire & diuers other protestants. which goods the said Barnaby Dun refused to deliuer this deponent or one penny to support this deponent being in extream distres, albeit he promised the English both protection & security, yet he turned the English most <B> cruelly out of his house in the heat of rebellion in the depth of winter, by which means they wer stripped starke naked by the rebells & most miserably handled & he sayth that Terence Dun oflate a Clerke an Attorny in the exchequer is in rebellion, and John McMurtagh nere Ballonteyach gent, & kedagh dun ofin the parish of killmannan gent perseInkeper nere Clarehill, Murtagh Dun & all the sept of the duns open are in open Rebellion saving that Barnaby Dun of Brittas esquire hath not openly declared himself. yet he sayth that the eldest sonne of the said Barnaby is in rebellion viz Charles Dunne, and that some of the said Barnaby Dun s domesticall servants

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servants was entertayned { } with meat, drinke & [ ] are in open Rebellion as his Cooke, & his Butler William Thomas, & Brian McConnell <D> and his serjeant and that the rebells of the Cuntry did vsually frequent the house of the said Barnaby Dun & had intercourse with them & that that his goods & Cattle wer vntouched (all the tyme this deponent liued there) by the rebells though they travailed round about the Cunty & dayly thorough his grounds and that hitherto during the rebellion the said Barnaby his wife & servants haue travailed freely without interruption to such places in the Cuntry as they wold goe vnto, & that he hath not made any defenc for his house or cuntry (which he being a potent eminent person. And (as this deponent is perswaded in his <E> conscience) if he wold haue applyed his true endeavours & power and m ight haue kept many in much subjection loyalty & security for the good subjects & [poore] poore english in those partes and farther saith deposeth not.
Robert Basse
Jurat primo Junij 1642
John Sterne
Hen: Brereton

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Robert Basse Jur 1o Junij 1642
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