Deposition of Richard Coming

Collection: Bysse Depositions

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
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Date: 1643-02-15
Identifier: 829227r149

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Clare & Limerick
Deposition Type: Bysse
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Words, Lost By Debts
Commissioners: Philip Bisse, Thomas Bettesworth
Deposition Transcription:


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Richard Coming late of Gortnekehn in the parish of Clan cah barony of Connelloe and within the County of lymericke Cooper (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined before vs by vertue of a Comission vnder the broade seale of this kingdom (beareing date the 5th day of March 1641 concerneing the robberies and spoiles since this rebellion comitted vpon the English and protestants within the Province of Munster &c deposeth and saith That vpon the 25th day of december 1641 the deponent lost was robbed & forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vzt worth 168 li. 5 s. 10 d.
Of cowes steeres heiffers yeerlinges horses mares coults & sheepe swine & poultry to the v a lue of three score and one two pounds fiue nynteene shill & six pence Of househould stuffe lynnen & woollen & armes to the value of one & thirtie pounds thirteene shillings Of corne and houshould prouision to the value of Twenty nyne pounds The deponent saith that by meanes of this rebellion he was expelled and driuen away from his farme & house to the where he lost in corne in ground to the value of Two and thirtie pounds thirteene shillinges and foure pence he lost in tiethes one yeeres profitt the sume of ten pounds Of desperat debts the sume of 40 s. The totall of his losses amounts to one hundred and fiftie eight six pounds fiue shillings & ten pence Aboute the time aboue specified Teig o Collins of Drumynekeene in the said County gentleman tooke away this deponents Cattle & likewise vpon the first of August last Edmond fitz Gerrald of Clenlis in the said County gentleman assaulted the Castle of Pallis in the said County with three or foure hundred men or therabouts and surprized the same, haueing possessed himselfe of this deponents goods & of all the goods of the rest of the English in the said


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Castle (whoe betooke themselues to the said Castle for their saftie) the said fitz Gerrald after he entred the said Castle perswaded this deponent & the rest to turne <B> to them alleadgeing that the deponent & the rest of the English there were in the wrong & that they (meaneing the rebells) fought for the kinge & had his Maiestie Comission for what they did / dureing the siedge of the said Castle or in & aboute Whitsuntide last William Green & Thomas ffoorth two English protestants sallyeing foorth of the said Castle for releef were greevously murthered at a place called Mayne neere the said Castle by some of the said fitz Gerralds company (as it is credibly reported) whoe gaue them neere a hundred wounds a peece & of them & afterwards cut out their hartes & further he deposeth not
Rich Coming
Jurat coram nobis
15o ffeb: 1642
Phil: Bisse Tho: Bettesworth


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A

Limerick
Rich: Cominges examination

Reu:

Deponent Fullname: Richard Coming
Deponent Gender: Male
Deponent Occupation: Cooper
Deponent County of Residence: Limerick
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: Edmond fitz Gerrald, Teig o Collins, William Green, Thomas ffoorth, the kinge
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Rebel, Rebel, Victim, Victim, Mentioned