Deposition of Faithfull Teate, Elizabeth Day & William Thorp

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I ffaithfull Teate of Ballyhaes in the Countie of Cavan Doctor in Divinity Elizabeth Day & William Thorp beeing duely sworne deposeth And first the said Doctor Tate seuerally saith & deposeth that about October 23 last 1641 I he this deponent hearing of a rebellion intended by the irish & seeing them begin to arise, put 300 li. sterling in gold & some silver into my his pockets, & soe tooke horse, intending with speed both to saue him myself from them, & to give notice to the state of their proceedings: but (as I am the deponent was credibly informed) Phillip mc <a> Hugh mc Shane o Rely had a spie on him & way layd him: & in a little wood betwixt Virginia and Lough rammer within the sayd Countie And about 12: of the clock the same night one Captaine Hugh o Rely of the barony of Castlerane Com pradicti freeholder & Thomas o Gowne of Cargeesher & diverse other freeholders & persons to the number (as I he conceiued of 300 on the kings high way set vpon me him beeing then on my iournie in the Companie of Edward Aldrich Esquire then high sherif of the Countie of Monaghan I and William Aldrich Clark & some others, the foresaid evil persons met them me with a great crie, & some of them bad vs stand rebels & so they stripped Mr Ed: Aldrich & knocked me of my him this deponent of his horse, & twice more as I he was ariseing up, knocked me him downe againe & wounded hime with a cut over his head, & left him not one piece of the foresaid gold or silver, took of my his hat & capes & with all his writings & his horse price 10 li. ster & they threatned to cut of his head, & had done it as he (I beleeveth) had not I the deponent challenged the Captain Hugh o Rely by <b> name, & Hugh Brady of Cullintro (who had been my proctor many yeares, raised under hime from pouerty to a rich estate) for succour & then he was dismissed to travel 7 miles that night in his stockings without boots onely with a cap of blood on his heade or else to perish by the way. Likewise And the said Elizabeth day by her selfe & beeing duly sworne deposeth that Rose nie Rely wife of the foresaid Philip o Rely came to Ballyhaes aforesaid with a Carbine Petronell charged in her hands & the cock vp & most imperiously demaunded a note of Doctor Tate s wife of all her goods, & fo the n she & her retainers tooke away all my all [ ] her & her husbands goods horses, mares cowes sheepe, plate burnt his books in the fire threw some in the dirt soe that by their procurement & rebellious fellonies I the said Doctor Tate lost his whole estate And further he the said William Thorpe alsoe deposeth that a little after this the badd vsage of the Rebells to and against Doctor Tate the said Doctor Tate my wife & 5 children & servants beeing unable & not daring to stay in the Cuntry among the rebells were coming up towards dublin, where i the said Doctor Tate then was, and neere to Thomas Burrowes his house in Stradone within the said Countie were stripped in the sight of the said Burrowes by James Boy Brady of Rahilla in the said Countie of Cavan & many others of the said Burrowes his tenants, who beeing although Protestants & Protestant in Christian, & the said Doctor Tate owne parishoner) cruelly denied to let them lodg in any of his outhouses or barnes, it beeing then both frost & snowe, wherefore they this deponent conceiueth that the said Burrowes set his tenants on to rob them, for he neither resisted nor forbad them, but onely looked on soe that they & many scores more of their neighbours beeing deprived both of victuals & Clothes they were all enforced to lodge all that night under a snowie rock, where the said Doctor Tate s my sucking babe had perished (the mother hauing then noe milk in her brests had not the lord of his mercie under the rock where they lay provided a bottle of clabber

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Of Clabber or buttermilk, which preserved the childs life till the next day when as they came to Virginia: diverse dayes after they were stript again of such things as they of the first company left them & others gaue them, almost euery mile twice, by men women & children searching them for monie, the women beeing more cruel towards them then the children men, & the children then the women, & often was my the said Doctors Tate sucking babe shaked out of his clothes, & let fall on the ground stark naked, wherby his neck could not but haue beene broken, had it not beene for the snowe, & this was the rebels common word, All that we do is for religion we rise for our Religion. They hang our preists in England &c.
The particulars which I lost & am dispo ssed of then by the foresaid parties meanes were as followeth vizt.li. s. d.
In gold & silver come about_____340__0__0
In debts about_____230__0__0
In freehold lands at least the purchase whereof is worth_____1520__0__0
In arreares of rents about_____220__0__0
In leases_____180__0__0
On a mortgage of Drumskes from Hugh mc Mulmore o Rely for 11 yeares unexpired_____60__0__0
In househould goods, bookes, hay, jewell, &c. about_____160__0__0
In tithes due (besides the future profits of my liuings_____140__0__0
In cattel, horses mares colts sheepe, miltch, cowes, young & fat cattel_____280__0__0
The 3 yeares future profits of my liuings_____800 li.__
Summa total_____3930li.__0 s.__0 d.

And the said Doctor Teate further saith that since my comming to towne two of my foresaid children are dead: myself, my wife & the rest of my children & most of my servants haue been extreamly sick & neare to death, through this ill usage as I Conceiue.
As witnes my hand ffaithful Teate

And for as much as is above related concerneinge me Elizabeth me Elizabeth Day and my knowledge I subscribe and depose
Elizabeth [mark] Day her marke
And for as much as is above related concerning me Will: Sharpe and my knowledge I subscribe and depose
William [mark] Sharp
his marke

Deposed this 20th of March 1641 before vs
Joh Watson
John Sterne

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266__13__4 per annum

1520
2410
4930

Goods 2410
Deprived of lands worth to be sold___1520li.
[such is Justice { }]

[Copy at MS 832, fols 79r-v]

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Cavan Hand with ‘w’
Doctor Teate Jur 10o Marcij 1641
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