Deposition of Frances Osburne

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ffrances Osburne wife to Henrie Osburn of Corbehey in the parish of Castellyon{s}and Barrony of Barrymore in County of Corcke gentleman (a brittish protestant) in the behalfe of her said husband now absent beeing dewely sworne and Examined by vertue &c. deposeth & saith that on or vppon Chrismass twelfe day Last the said Henry was Lost, was rob’d & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values following vizt worth 1419 li. 15 s.
Of Cowes, horses, mares, sheepe & young Cattle, to the value of two hundred fourty nine pownds, fiueteene shillings sterling Of linnen, woollen, bedding, wearing apparrell and other houshould stuffe & prouision to the value of sixty pownds . Of a lease of Colligan in the parish of Whit Ch u rch in County aforesaid hauing a tearme of twenty seau’n years yet to come worth twenty pownds per annum ouer and aboue the L andlords rent, which being well improou ’ d with building & fencing he hath lost one hundred & sixty pownds, Of another lease of Ballyrobert in the parish of Castlelyons in said County, wherein he had a tearme of twenty six years to come, worth twenty pounds aboue the Landlords rent, which being also well Improou’d with building, fencing, & manuring, he is damnifyed one hundred pownds Of a lease of Curbeghy & Ballybredy in the parish of Knockmorne in c ounty of Corke , hauing a tearme of twenty six year e yet to come worth fourty eight pownds per annum aboue the Landlords rent for these two years & would haue bin worth a hundred pownds per annum, during the residue of the lea tearme, in which he is damnifyed eight hundred & fifty pownds. the Deponent further sayth that he r said husband was rob’d of the p re mises aboute the time aboue mencioned by the means of John & Richard Cundon of Ballein Patrick gentleman & Morrice Cundon of Quinn finoge gentleman & their followers. the totall of her losses amount to the summe of 14 one thous a nd four hundred nineteene pounds fifteene shillings sterling this deponent also sayth that one Henry Smith gentleman & William Payne gentleman & Peter Michaell yeaman & Richard Cowper yeaman all of Castle Lyons in County of Corke were all murdred by the Cundons aforesaid. she also sayth, that Joseph Gras wife, & her sister Jane Baker & their children & John Marquess & his wife & old Tho: Polley & his wife & old William Hemingt Hemington & his wife all of Castle Lyons all of Castle & Roger Page & his wife all of the parish of Knockmorne in said county were all stript by the Cundons aforesaid & further she cannot depose.

ffrances [mark] Osborne her marke
Jurat coram nobis
15th June: 1642
Phil: Bisse
Tho: Badnedge

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The examination of ffra: Osburne
Corke
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Nu: 56