Examination of Robert Park

fol. 93r

1948

Robert Park of Crookhaven in the County of Corke Merchant deposeth that in the begining of the Rebellion in Ireland this deponent was within Crookhaven aforesaid robbed & deprived of his shipp called the Mathew of Crookhaven & of goods & Merchandize therein to his Losse & damage of Eight hundred Powndes by theis sea pirats vizt <A> Captain Byles, Dymms a souldier Captaine Kelly Capten Durant, Capten Rosters Capten Teige mac Carty & others their assistants And about half a yere after this deponent with his wife children & family were expelled & driven from his howse at Crookhaven aforesaid & robbed of his goods & chattells then & there being worth 300 li. & above, And then his wife by occasion of the Rebells bruising & affrighting her, died. And afterwards this deponents sonn Robert Park takeing vpp Armes against the Rebells was by them slaine in service vnder the Comand of Colonell Cooke. And his younger sonn was & is a souldjer for the Parliament in Cork. And this deponent being aged is now in great misery: And further saith that those Rebells who surprized his howse & robbed him of his goods therein were all Irish, but strangers altogether vnknowne to him this deponent:/

Robert Parke
Sworne the third day of January
1652
John Page

A true copie of the Originall
examined by
Tho: Waring

fol. 93v

1949

The Examinacion
of Robert Parke