Deposition of Richard Cooper

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Richard Cooper late of Coole the Towne & parish of Coole in the barony of kilne tallon & within the County of Corke yeoman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute the later end of ffeburary last & diuers times since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed & forceably dispoyled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt value of 80 li. 2 s.
Of horses and swine at Coole aforesaid to the value of fiue pounds. Of houshould stuff to the value of ten pounds. Of Corne & malt in the house to the value of eight pounds two shillings Of hay in the haggard & stable to the value of foure pounds. Of Implements of husbandry to the value of thirtie shillings. The deponent saith that by meanes of this presente rebellion in Ireland he was dispossessed of a farme of a house & a parcell of land thervnto belonging haueing a lease therin of thirteene yeeres to come woorth to be sett eight pounds per annum aboue the land lords rent which house was burnt by the rebells, wherin he conceaues himselfe damnified the sume of fiftie fortie fiue pounds. Of prouision in the house to the value of three pounds. The totall Of turffe & fuell fortie shillinges Of garden fruites to the value of fortie shillings The totall of his losses amounts to foure score pounds two shillings. The deponent saith that he lost <A> some parte of his goods by the meanes of John Condon fitz dauid of Bally mc Patricke in the said County gentleman Richard Condon of the same gentleman Morris Condon of kilbarry in the said County gentleman accompanyed with the number of two hundred rebells whoe then & there comitted many trayterous & outragious actions and especially vpon the 6th day of Aprill last at night aboute one a clocke came to the Towne of Coole aforesaid & there

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most cruelly murthered Richard Cooper & Mathewe Cooper both sons to this deponent, Henery Smith of Armore in the said County gentleman William Payne of the same John Higgins of the same Allen Cole of Ballyoran in the said County John Witherelll of Castlelyons in the said County [ ] William Smith with the number of two & twenty English & protestants of the troope & foote company of my lord of Barrymores whose names the deponent doth not remember. The deponent saith that his house at Coole aforesaid was burnt by the said Condons & then & there stripped Nellis Cooper & Ann Cooper daughters to this deponent & further he canot depose

Richard Cooper
Jurat coram nobis 19o
August 1642
Phil: Bisse
Jam: Wallis

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Richard Cooper
Cork 392
Corke
Nu: 52