Deposition of Richard Braishawe

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Tertio die January A° Domini 1641
Richard Braishawe of Aghenehinch in the parish of Drummully halfe Barrony of Coole & County of ffermanagh yeoman (an English Protestant) Aged ffifty seaven yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne deposeth that he was possessed of severall leases, (vizt) one lease of the tate of land caled Aghenehinch parte of the Mannor of Castle Brinsley alias Castlecoole for ffifty two yeares or thereabouts, one lease of the parcell of land called Drumcarr being one smale tate & a quarter of a tate of land & parte of the proportion of Galowne ffor ffifty yeares or thereabouts & a lease of the one halfe of the tate of land caled Bowassett and Lanine parte of the proportion of Mannor heygate for fourteen yeares or thereabouts worth one hundreth and fifty pounds, of Corne worth one hundreth and twenty pounds, of Cattle worth three hundreth pounds, of household goods, provition, husbandry geare & other goods worth one hundreth and twenty pounds, of haye worth One hundreth and twenty pounds, of Ready monyes worth ffowerscore and tenn pounds, of debts due vnto him one hundreth and tenn pounds in all Amounting to the some of Nyne hundreth and tenn pounds, And being soe possessed of the said Estate & of the writeings & leases concerning the said severall lands was Robed and lost the same the five & twentieth day of October last past in the day tyme By & by the meanes of Captaine Rory Magwire of hassett towne in the <a> Barrony of Lurge & County aforesaid Donagh Maguire Esquire unckle to the Lord Magwire, Richard Newgent Esquire father in lawe to the said Lord Magwire with diverse other Irish Rebells to the Number of ffower hundreth or thereabouts that did rise in Rebellion with the said Captaine Rory & the rest, And hee his wife & three Children were all stript of there Cloathes & left naked by some of the said Rebells, And did heare diverse of the Company (whose names this deponent knoweth not) say that what they had done was with the Consent & by the directions of the kinge or words to that effect

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And that he hath heard that the said Rebells had Murthered ffortye of the English Protestants (that Inhabited & lived within the said parish in good Manner) or thereabouts And that there is one hundreth of the said parishoners perished and dead since they [ ] were put from there habitacions by the said Rebells as he verily beleeveth, And the cause of his beleeffe herein is for that he hath knowne them di to dye in such abundance dayly

The marke of Richard Braishawe [mark]

Deposed before vs the third of January 1641
Roger Puttocke
Henry Brerton

he is willing for present to goe to England with his wife and 3 children