Deposition of Thomas Taylor

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x xxo decembris Anno Domini 1641

Thomas Taylor of Belturbatt in the parish of Anna Bar{ony} of Loughtye and County of Cavan gent (an English protestant) Aged threscore yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne deposeth that he was robed by occasion of the present Rebellion and lost deprived & expelled of one Poale & a halfe and the three [ fourth ] partes of a poale of land which he held in ffee simple {for} him & his heires for ever beinge parte of the proportion of Aghetueduffe als Ballehayes att & under the Annuall or yearely Rent of therteene shilings fower pence, and from One Poale of land which he likewise held in ffee simple to him & his heires for ever being parte of the proporcion of Clonofa, caled Drumcharka als Drumahurke att & vnder the Annuall or yearely Rent of three pounds five shillings, One tate of land caled by the name of Derivore ô Muckie being parte of the proportion of Aghalauie in the County of ffermanagh which he likewise held in ffee simple to him & his heires for ever att & under the Annuall or yearely rent of three pounds eight shilings fower pence And of two houses and the backsides to them same belonging lying within the Corpacion of Belturbett which he held in ffee symple to him and his heires for ever att and vnder the Annual or yearely Rent of three pence <all> worth six hundreth pounds to b e he ld & 45 li. per annum whereof 2 yeres proffitt is lost & is like to l oose the future, vntill a { p ea c e} be [held?] And was robed & lost in leases two poales of land caled Curgarrowe & Drumgohane be{inge} part of the proportion of Aghetieduffe alias Ballehayes aforesaid for thirty fower yeares from May day last att & vnder the Annual or yearely rent of ffowerteene pounds And three poales of land caled by the seuerall names of Curclohan Lisdowgon, Shaine, & Curgarron for ffifty seaven yeares from the first day of May last [ att & under year ] being parte & parcell of the proporcion of Strodone att & vnder the Annual or yearely Rent of Nyne pounds And three houses in the said Corparcion of Belterbatt with there backs{ides} for Nyne hundreth yeares att & vnder the Annual or yearely rent of fforty shilings And two Burgas Acres within the propo presincts of the said Corparcion for Eleaven yeares from the first of May last att & vnder the Annual or yearely rent of three pounds thirteene shilings fower pence worth five hundreth pounds, in Cattle worth three pounds, In Plate, household goods, other goods, mony & debts one hundred and tenn pounds in all Amounting in present losse to one thousand two seven hundreth & three thirtie pounds besides the future losse of 45 li. per annum <a> By the meanes of Phillip mc Hugh mc Shane ô Rely one of the knights of the Shire for the said County of Cavan Myles ô Rely heigh Sheriffe of the said County of Cavan, Phillip mc Mulmore ô Rely, one of the Justices of peace in the said County of Cavan, Hugh m c Mulmore o Rely, Owen Brady of

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<b> the parish of Anna aforesaid & County of Cavan gent: within the Number of five hundreth other Irish Rebells or thereabouts that did rise and tooke vpp Armes with the said Phillip mc Hugh mc Shane <25: oct: ult:> ô Rely & the rest the five & twentieth day of October last And further this deponent deposeth that he this deponent his wife and six children were by the said Rebells driven & put out of his habitacion att Belterbett the second day of November followeing, his said wife haveing but lyen in Child bed three weeks and odd dayes, And [ ] hee his wife and Children were all stript the day followeing att or neare Youghall in the said County of Cavan and left naked by reason by reason some of the said Rebellious Irish whose names this deponent knoweth not, by reason whereof this deponents yongest child was perished and dyed, And further deposeth that the said Owen Bradye had & as he this deponent (verily beleeveth) yett hath all the writeing deeds & Escripts that this deponent had for the his said Estates locked vpp in a box And further deposeth that he this deponent did heare John Pyman of Belturbatt aforesaid gent { } say that the said Rebells told him that the cause there Maine reason of there Riseing was to enioy all there la{nd} againe & have there liberty of Conscience And that they have a president for the same out of Scotland. And further this deponent deposeth that he hath a Certificate atested vnder the hands of seuerall gentlemen of Creditt that well knewe his Estates that the same was worth one thousand and two hundreth pounds And further this deponent deposeth that he was forced to leave other two of his Child{ren} by the way in there Iorney to this Citty they not being able to travell anye further nor this deponent able to carry them, and where they are nowe or what is become of them this deponent knoweth not
Thomas Taylor
January 3d 1641 deposed before vs
Roger Puttocke
Hen: Brereton

Tho Taylor Com Cavan
Jur Jan 3o 1641
Cert fact
Intw Hand

[Copy at MS 832, fols 98r-98v]