Deposition of Johan Morton

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
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Dublin Core

Date: 1642-01-03
Identifier: 835146r194

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Fermanagh
Deposition Type: Dublin Original
Nature of Deposition: Robbery, Stripping, Words
Commissioners: Henry Jones, William Aldrich
Deposition Transcription:


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xxxo decembris Anno domini 1641
Johan Morton wife to Rice Morton of Deribegg in the parish of Drummully, Barrony of Coole & County of ffermanagh yeoman, nowe one of his majesties souldiers (shee being an English protestant) Aged twenty five yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne deposeth that her said husband was Robed and lost in Leasehold lands vizt the lease of deribegg parte of the proportion of killispenan worth One hundreth pounds in Cattle worth ffifty six pounds in Corne worth three pounds, in hay worth three pounds in household goods, Provition for the house, and other goods worth thirty pounds in all Amounting to the some of One hundreth ffowerscore & twelue pounds, By captaine Rory Magwire of hassett towne in the Barrony of Lurge and County aforesaid or some other of the Irish Rebells that tooke vpp Armes and did Rise vpp with the said Captaine Rorye vpon the three and twentieth day of October last in the After noone a litle after Sunne Seting, And further deposeth that some of the said Rebells of the said Captaines company did Stripp this deponant and her said husband, And saith shee heard some of them say that they were for the kinge and that the kinge had coummaunded them to doe what they had done but knoweth not the names of the partyes that speak the said said words.
merke
Joan [mark] Mortons
Jan. 3. 1641
{de}posed before vs
Hen: Jones
William Aldrich
she desireth to be employed in knitting:


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Deponent Fullname: Johan Morton
Deponent Gender: Female
Deponent Occupation: Wife
Deponent County of Residence: Fermanagh
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: Rice Morton, Rory Magwire
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Victim, Rebel