Deposition of William Steart

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William Steart late of the Quarter in the parish of Athmean & parish of Whitechurch in the barony of deces & within the County of Corke (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined by vertue of &c. deposeth & saith That on or aboute Christmas last and since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he was robbed of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values following vizd worth 598 li. 10 s.
Of Cowes oxen horses mares and yee rlings a t aforesaid to the value of foure score & seaven pounds ten shillings . Of houshould stuffe to to the value of fiue pounds ten shillings : Of Implements of husbandry to the value of twenty pounds sterling. Of his Corne in the haggard or house to the value of one hundred & twenty pounds. Of hay in stacke of to the value of ten pounds . The deponent saith that he was expelled & driuen away from his said farme & house where he left in Corne in ground to the value of three score pounds which he conceaues to be lost. Of his wood turfe & fuell for fireing to the value of ten pounds. Of three stockes of bees to the value of one pounds ten shillings. He saith that he lost in his garden fruites to the value of fiue pounds. Of his dwelling houses & other house s therevnto adioyneing burnt by the rebells to his losse & damadge of three score pounds. He further saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed of a farme of the Quarter wherin he had a lease of twelue yeeres to come woorthe coibus annis aboue the land lords rent ten pounds per annum being well Improued in building & fenceing which he valueth to be woorth one hundred & twenty pounds Of his farme of Garren ffada in the said County wherin this deponent had a lease of twenty yeeres t o come woorth Coibus annis abou e the land lords rent nyne pounds per annum being well Improued which he valueth to be woorth one hundred & foure three score pounds . Of debts due to this deponent from dauid Protheragh Edward Leth amounting to the summe of fortie nyne pounds & although he accounted the same to be goode debte before the begining of this rebellion but in regard the said part i es are vtterly dissenabled by meanes of this rebellion therefore this deponent canot gett satisfaction from them. The totall of his losses amounts to seaven six fiue hundred & eighteene threescore fiftie eight four e scor & eighteene pounds & ten shillings He was robbed by the lord of Mountgarrett the lord of dunboyne Sir Nicholas Welsh of Ballykerog in the County of Waterford knight Theobald Purcell alias baron of Loghmaye in the County of Tipperary Esquire Phillippp mc Cragh at that that tyme high sheriffe of the said Countie of Waterford John Roch of

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<B> Curragh Roch in the said County gentleman & his two sons Pierce Roch & Tibbot Roch of the same gentlemen donell o Connery of Ballighanebegg in the said County gentlemen John mc Thomas fitz Gerrald of ffarnan in the said County gentleman John Butler of Rugogona in the said County gentleman Thomas oge mc Cragh of dromany in the said County gentleman George Rushell an English papist of Aglis in the said County gentleman Edmond ffennell of dungarvan in the said County gentleman, Richard Butler Esquire brother to the Earle of Ormond & diuers others of their forces whose names names he knoweth not. He lastly lost saith that one Allis Bywater wife to Robert Bywater of dromany in the said County yeoman was murthered by the rebells in those partes butt their names he knoweth not & further he canot depose

William Steort
Jurat coram nobis
16o Junij 1642
Tho: Badnedge
Phil: Bisse

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The examination of William
Stearte
Corke
R ed