Deposition of Robert Nixon

fol. 158r

1910

Robert Nixon late of Manning in the parish of Glanmire barony of Condon & Clangibbon & within the County of Cork yeoman (a brittish protestant) duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue of &c. deposeth and saith. That on or aboute Candlemas last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Ireland he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values following vizt value of 789 li. 7 s.
Of Cowes heiffers steeres yeerlings mares horses sheepe & swine to the value of one hundred foure score & thirtie pounds. Of househould stuffe to the value of forty pounds or therabouts. Of hay & corne in the haggard to the foure score & ten pounds. O f lynnen & one cloke to the value of fiue & fiftie shillinges. Of armes to the value of fiue & Twenty shillinges. Of Implements of husbandry to the value of six & f orty shillinges. The deponent further saith that h e was expelled and driuen away from his said farme house wher e he left in Corne in ground to the value of one hundred pounds. The deponent alsoe saith that by meanes of this presente rebellion in Ireland he is dispossessed of the seuerall farmes followeing vizt. Of the lands of Manning aforesaid wherin this deponent hath lease of sixteene yeeres yeett to come woorth to the deponent yeerly aboue the land lords rent foureteene pounds per annum, haueing layd out much chardges buylding ditching quicksetting & other necessary Improuements, he conceaues himselfe damnified in his lease foure score pounds . Of another lease for one an{d} Twenty yeeres to come after the de cease of this depon { ent } & his wife of a house & ten accres of land in kilwoorth in the said County woorth to this deponent yeerly aboue the land lords rent thirteene six pounds per annum, he conceaues himself likewise d amnified in this lease the summe of forty pounds Of certaine Tenements & houses at kilwoorth aforesaid

fol. 158v

1911

for the Tearme of three liues yeett vnexpired woorth Coibus annis to this deponent aboue the land=lords rent thirty pounds per annum wherin he is <B> damnified Two hundred pounds. likewise he saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was dispossessed of the halfe plowland of Culemugh in the said County wherin he hath a lease of eleaven yeeres yeett to come woorth to this deponent yeerly ab o ue the landlords rent ten pounds per annum in this lease he conceaues himselfe damnified forty pounds. The totall of his losses amounts to seaven hundred foure score & nyne pounds seaven shillinges. The deponent saith that aboute Candlemas last the lord Mountgarrett with his forces consisting at least of Two & Twenty collors came out of the County of Tipperary into the County of Corke aforesaid where where among other robberies & spoyles comitted then vpon the English by his meanes he then tooke away nyne English cowes of this deponents cattle price three & twenty pounds, like=wise John Butler of Cloghbridy in the said County of Tipperary Esquire then & there tooke away fourteene horses & mares of this deponents price fourescore pounds. He alsoe saith that about the same time Richard Condon of BallymcPatrick tooke away this deponents corne & converted the same to his owne vse. Alsoe some parte of his Cattle was taken away aboute the same time by Thomas mc Cragh of kilbeny in the County of Tipperary gentleman. He lastly saith that aboute Easter last this deponent comeing for safeguard to Castle=lyons he was then assaulted in the high way by dauid mc Morris Condon of Manning aforesaid gentleman Garrett mc Gibbon of kilbarry in the said County gentleman, Garrett Barry neere dauid o dorny & diuers others to the number of fiue horse & fiue footeman & in a rebellious manner tooke away twenty cowes from this deponent together with his swoord & peece & further &c.

Robert [mark] Nixons marke
Jurat coram nobis 30 No: 1642
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell

<Corke re>