Deposition of Thomas Dight

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<24 Maij 1642 about Christmas last & in rebellion>

Thomas Dight late of Glaneroghtie in the parish of Killinerooe in the County of kiery merchant, duly sworne & Examined before vs by vertue of his Maiestyes Comission to vs, or any two, or more of vs directed etc deposeth & sayth, that, on or about Christmas Last, and since this rebellion he hath Lost, bin robbed, & forceably despoyled of his goods & chattells to the seuerall values ffollowing, vizt, worth 1749 li. 5 s. sterling parte thereof consisting of debts due by
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of his beefe bread beere & other household provision to the valew of threeskore pounds in brasse pewter bedding & other household stuffe one hundred thirty fiue pounds in wearing apparrell beelonging to himself his wife & Children one hundred & twenty pounds of his shoppe wores & merchantable comodities as hides & tallows & otherthings the to the value of three hundred fiftie nine pounds nine shillings in readie monie plate & woolls to the valewe of one hundred & twenty pounds of his wheat & oats in house & haggord to the valew of threeskore pounds in waynes ploughes & other implements of husbandrie to the valewe of thirty two pounds of his Cowes bulles mares horsses & garrans to the valewe of one hundred forty pounds of his seuerall debts of seuerall persons hereafter mentioned amount{ing} in all to the somme of one hundred twenty sixe pounds sixe shillings owing to him by donnogh mc ffynine Cartie of Ardtullie in the County of kiery & baronie of Glanroghtie Esquire ffynine mc dromod Cartie of killowen in the sayd County & Baronie gentleman Elizabeth Stephenson alias Cartie of Killosscoie in the same County & Baronie widdowe & her sonne ffynine mc daniell Carty alias Captayne Sougan slayne in Rebellion Teige o donoghon of Glanflisk in the sayd County gentleman who are all in actuall rebellion by meanes whereof hee is hoples of satisfaction from them Also there was dew to him from Samuell Burrell & James Burrell & other English protestants who are all now impouerished & dispoyled of their goods & estates by reason of this rebellion the sommes of two hundred fifty & three pounds which hee conceiued to bee good debts till the begining of this rebellion which hee thinketh now vtterly lost by reason of theire dissability aforesayd of his houses & farmes of two halfe plough lands in or neere Glaneroaghty aforesayd worth about fiftie pounds per annum over & yerely rents reserved for diuers yeeres yet vnexpired wherout hee hath been expelled by the rebbells [] some beeing worth to bee solde att least three hundred pounds of his rents out of Croake hauen Castle in the County of Cork with one faior house there w hic h was burne d ten pounds per annum for six yeeres yet {to}come or thereabouts which hee valueth at thirtie pounds And

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<hee further> sayeth that the parties that so robbed him & dispoyled him of his farmes rents houses & goods aforesayd were dermod mc Cartie alias Iglock of downemanas in the baronie of Carberie in the County of Corke & donogh o Megan of Crook hauen aforesayd gentleman: donogh mcffynine of Ardtully aforesayd Esquire ffynine mc daniell alias Captayne Sougan aforesayd ffynine mc dermod Cartie aforesaid gent Elizabeth Carty alias Stephenson widdowe aforesayd & about three hundred rebells more And hee further saith that hee did heare one Cnogher mcc donnagh an Irish priest that vsually kept in donogh mcc ffynins house at Ardtully vppon some discourse with him say that they tooke vp armes for theire Religion & that they would haue the popish religion vp againe and that hee knewe there was a lawe past in Queene Elizabeth time against the popists of this kingdome which was yet in force against them & that theire could no act of parliament passe in this kingdome beefore it bee approved by the parliament of England where the vpper there were lords in the vpper house were lords but in the Lower house none but mecanick base raskalls and that the Scotts had theire willes by the force of armes & so would they heere in this kingdome & diuers other vile words hee then vsed which this deponent now remembreth not & more hee cannot depose: his whole losses amounteth too one thousand seven hundred forty nine pounds fiue shillings

Tho: Dight
Jurat Coram nobis
24o Maij Ano 1642
Nic: Philpot
Richard ffrench

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WiliamBordlie
Examinacion
Kerry
Thomas Dight his
Examinacion 349
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