Deposition of Samuell Cotnam

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Samuell Cotnam late of Derryvony in the County of Cavan gent sworne and examined deposeth and saith That about the begining of the present Rebellion hee this deponent was forceibly deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of the possession Rentes proffittes & interest of his leas of 2 poles of land thone Called Derrivonagh & the other Corragh in the County of Cavan whereof he had a lease for 70 yeres to come from Sir Stephen Butler knight deceased worth six hundreth powndes And of Corne Cowes horses howhold stuffe & other his goodes & chattells worth one hundreth and fowrtie nynety & fowre powndes more In all amounting to the sume of seven hundreth nynetie fowre powndes ster By and <a> by the meanes of the Rebells Phillip mc Hugh mc Shane ô Rely of that County a Collonell of Rebells (whoe vndertooke to protect the deponentes father: yet since he is killd there amongst them) Edmund ô Mulpatrick of Quivy in the same County one of this deponentes fathers tenantes whoe advysed the deponent to leave his little sonn with him the said Edmund to bee kept in saffty: Howbeit this deponent hath heard that the said Edmund would since (if he had beene suffered) have killd the Child, becowse he conceived this deponent to be dead & that therefore the child should not heire his farmes: And whether the said Chyld be since killd or noe this deponent cannott tell: And by Patrick mc Donnell of Deryvony aforesaid <b> another tenant and by Brian ô Nane which promissed to nurse a yong child of the deponentes of 3 weekes old: & had 3 Cowes to doe it yet he the said Brian brought the said Child to Belturbett where it was kept 7 dayes by some of the poore English with water & potatoes, & then it was starved to death: & by Edmund ô Mulpatrick another tenant Patrick ô Mulpatrick here to fore another tenant & divers other Rebells (many in number) whose names he cannott expresse
< Mr W: Mr B >
Samuell Cotnam
Jur vltimo ffebr 1642
Hen: Brereton
Joh Watson

fol. 126v

{Cavan}
Samuell Cotnan Jur
vlt ffebr 1641
Intw Cert fact
Hand

[Copy at MS 832, fols 52r-52v]