Deposition of Richard Thurbane

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Richard Thurbarne of Kil{c}onney in the parrish of Drumlane & County of Cavan gent sworne & examined deposeth and sayth That about the begining of the present Rebellion vizt the 29th of October 1641 Hee this deponent at Killconny aforesaid and other places with vizt in Belturbett in the same County was deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of the possession Rents benefits & proffitts of his farmes landes & tenements, and of his housholdstuff Beasts & Cattle horses Mares hay debts & other thinges all of the value & to his losse and damage of Six hundred fifty nyne powndes xix s. viij d. By and by the meanes of <a> Mullmore alias Myles o Rely of the Connaut then highe sherriff of the County of Cavan & his Confederates souldjers and servants all Rebells: & the deponent flying away to save his liffe was taken vp by Phillip mc Mulmore ô Rely and harboured vnder him vntill Christmas Eve then next 1641 and from thence he was Conveyed to one Tho: Newgent of the Rosse in the County of Meath Esquire: where he was kept in restraint vntill the iiijth day of May of May last 1643: Where he was almost starved: yet at length by the meanes of Robert Plunckett Mris Newgents brother he was conveyed from thence to Athboy & from thence to Trim & soe to Dublin And further saith that one Robinson an English protestant was slaine by the Rebells nere vnto the Rosse in the County of Cavan And 2 more Englishmen that were shoomakers were murthered nere Fenaghe in the County of Meath
Richard Thurbarne
Jurat 4o Aug: 1643
Edw Pigott
Hen: Brereton

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Richard Thurbarne Jur
4o Augustj 1643
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[Copy at Ms 832, fols 56v-57r]