Deposition of Samuell Pullein

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Samuell Pullein Doctor in Divinity & Deane of Clonfert sworne & examined deposeth & saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion & by meanes & occasion thereof he hath bin & still is deprived & dispoiled of a leas of Desart Martin & Lisnemuck in the province of Vlster & of a yere & a halfs rent & value thereof to his losse & damage of Seven hundred thirty twoe powndes, And of the Arrerages of rents & proffitts of his prebend in the County <A> of Kilkenny amounting to the summe of five hundred pownds And of the Arrerages & meane proffitts of his Deanry within the province of Connaght, amounting in all to the summe of Eight hundred powndes or thereabouts And of the proffits & values of his Chancellorship of Macarty within the province of Vlster Mounster, & the Arrerages thereof, Amounting in all to the summe of Six hundred Powndes ster
And of the Arrerages of Rents & meane proffitts of his Rectory of Knockgrafton in the province of Munster amounting to the sume of Seven hundred Powndes And alsoe of his sheepe Corne Cattle horses, hay bookes clothes howse, howsholdstuff & morgages worth One thowsand Powndes And of the proffitts of Desart Martin & Lisnemuck for fowre yeres past (not before accompted for) the value of CCCxx li. or thereabouts, Soe that the whole losses for the time past Amount vnto the sume of fowre thowsand six hundred fifty two pounds And this deponent is lyke to be deprived of, & loose the future proffitts & me a values of his temporall & Church liveings (which when the Rebellion began were worth six hundred & fifty Powndes per Annum Comunibus Annis) vntill a peace be setled & bring them to their former values, And this Deponent further saith that about the xiijth of December 1641 the Irish Rebells did wholly <B> rise in the County of Tipperary against his Majesty & the English & other protestants, Amongst which Rebells of the Countie of Tipperary were cheefe Tibbott Butler Viscount of Ikerrin James

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<C> James Butler lord Baron of DunboineButler Lord Baron of Cayre, Purcell called Baron of Loughmey Tibbott Butler called Baron of Armalia, Ownye ô Dwyer of Killamanagh in the said County of Tipperary Esquire Philip ô Dwire of the same Esquire. John Butler of Cloughbreedy in the same County Esquire John Cantwell ofwithin 3 or fowre myles of the towne of Tipperary Esquire Geffrey Mocler of Moclerstowne in the same County Esquire Thomas Butler of kilconnell Esquire all men of great estates, with great numbers of their souldiers & followers, Which said Rebells on or quickly after the said xiijth of December by force & Armes robbed & plundered the towne of Thurles in that County which was planted with English protestants), And alsoe they forceibly seazed vpon all the goods of the English within that Countie, And vpon the xiiijth day of the said month of December, the foresaid rebbells martched & came to Cashell, yet entered not the Citty at the first, but laid about the Cathedrall Church, & then & there seased vpon all the goodes belonging to the protestants Vpon the last of January December 1641 they sett vpon <D> & assaulted the said Citty of Cashell, which (after some few howres) was yeilded vnto them, And there they murthered Mr ffrancis Bannester a minister, & the Churchwarden & one Johna Taylor, & being as aforesaid entered into the Citty they robbed & plundred all the English there of their goodes, & stripped them of their clothes, And vpon the first of January 1641 (being new yeres day) in the morning they fell againe a murthering the Englishe, And pricking some of them with their pikes forward vntill they came to the East gate called Canway gate, they murthered there one Mr Raph Carr Master of the freeschoole, Mr John Linsey a Minister, & one Thomas Charlton Clark of a church there, In other places of the Citty they murthered William Merifeild & his

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his wife, William Beane & his Tapster with divers others Divers English fled naked away to Mr James Sawles of Meldrum (about a myle distant from Cashell), Whoe (in charity) cawsed his wife to cutt her Cadowes & Coverletts & cloath them therewith, & kept them till the Rebells sent him word that if he manteined them any Longer they would plunder him for it, (as they afterwards did)
A little after Chrismas 1641, Whenas the Rebells had possessed themselues of all the Considerable townes in the County of Tipperary as Cashell Clonmell & ffethard they mett together & chose for their Generall the ould Rebell <E> the Lord Mountgarret, & for the Lieutenant generall the Lord of Ikerrin, as alsoe Colonells & other officers
Vpon the first of ffebruary 1641 they martched through Cashell aforesaid (the deponent being then and there a prisoner in a Jesuits howse, with his wife & children) to fight as was thought, against the Lord President of Munster, howbeit they retourned without giveing any battaile, About that tyme was one mr Low minister of ffethard murthered nere ffetherd, and all the English that were not murthered were sent downe to Waterford, Where they being not suffered to come into the towne, many of them were perished & starved for want of food & rayment, And as concerning the death of the said Mr Low the minister, It was related & confessed to this deponent by one of the Rebells themsel That the person & flesh of the man that murthered him sent forth afterwards such a filthy stinck, that noe man was able to come nere but all did vtterly declyne & shun him
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Sam: Pullein
Jur primo Maij 1642
coram Joh Watson & William Aldrich
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Doctor Robert Pulleine Jur
primo Maij 1642 Dublin