Deposition of Anthony Blunt

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The 28th of September 1642
Anthony Blunt late of the Bantrey in the parish of Kilm a combeoge of the Barony of the Beere & Bantrey in the Countie of Corke yeoman a Brittish protestant duly sworne and Examined by vertue of &c Deposeth & sayth that in or about the first day of ffebruary last & since the beginning of this presente Rebellionn in Ireland lost & was robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following viz t worth 46 li. 18 s. by
of Cowes & one heyfar to the value of tenn pounds
of houshold stuffe to the value of sixteene pounds
Hee further sayth by meanes of this presente Rebellion in Ireland hee was dispossessed of the lease of a house for terme of three liues worth Coibus Annis aboue the land lords Rent foure pounds per annum wherein hee is dampnified to the value of twenty pounds
It em a Rapier & pike to the value of eighteene shillings Of debts amounting to fiue pounds d u e from the rebells their names he doth not remember in regard his bills & bonds are taken away by the rebells wherefore he canot gett satisfaction from them But in Regard the said parties are in actuall rebellion canot therefore the Deponent Cannot gett satisfaction from them The totall of his losses amounts to the summe of fourtie six pounds eighteene shillings Hee sayth that he e was Robbed by Sullavane Beere ffimne mc Cormock of the parish of Dorras Teige mc Carty of the same gentleman of muckley Dermod o Mergey of Ballygabban in the said County gen Donnel mc Teige o Sullavan high Const able of the Barrony in the said <A> Countie & lyueing at Insherlogh in the said County gentleman He saith that aboute a forthnight before they rise in those partes the said Teige mc Carty Cahir o Callaghane surgeont of o Sullyvans company & Edmond Gould being in this deponents house tould this deponent that he must be gon or else he would be stripped if he had not turned to masse & that if he had turned to masse they would make him a Comander of a hundred men which this deponent denying they then said that they & muskry made a sollemne oath to stripp all the English & that they should haue

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noe releefe without they were gon but must ffeede vpon the huskes bark or rootes of the trees & further that they had noe Comission as yeett to kill them but onely to stripp them & turne them away & further he deposeth n o t
Anthony [mark] Blunts marke
Jurat coram nobis
28o 7bris 1642
Tristram WhetCombe
Phil: Bisse
Ro: southwell

Anth Blunts examin
Cork C 456
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Lo Muskery