Deposition of Edmund Perry

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Edmund Perry late of Crome in the County of Limerick gent sworne & examined deposeth and saith That in & since the begining of this present Rebellion he this deponent haveing beene robed & dispoiled by the Irish Rebells of his goodes & chattells & meanes within the seuerall Counties of Limrick & Clare to his losse and damage of Eleven thowsand seven hundred Powndes & above And his mother in lawe Joane Perry being also then robbed & deprived by the Irish Rebells of her goodes chattells and meanes within the said Counties worth six thowsand Pownds & above Hee And this deponent with his wife & two child [ ] & family together with the said Joane & her said six children fleeing into England to sa first to ffrance & after into England to save their Lives & soe being absent out of Ireland Therefore this deponent could not take such notice of the Murthers & cruelties Comitted by the Irish vpon the English as he otherwise might have done Howbeit this deponent hath beene informed & with much earnest earnestnes told by divers both English & Irish whose report he verely beleeveth to bee true that after he this deponent was gone out of Ireland twoe of his Servants goeing out of his this deponents Castle of Crome for hay for their horses vizt about ffebruary 1641 those two of his servants whereof one was an Englishman maned James Pye & the other a Scotch man whose Chr name he hath now forgotten were surprised & seised <A> vpon by one Edmund Hickie of Tourine in the Countie of Limerick gent this deponents near neighbour and John Leo of Tullavin in the same County of Limerick gent another of his neighbors near the Mille at Croome aforesaid & there were su rp & from thence were carried away & hanged to death Hee further saith that it was and is a Common report & as he verely beleeveth a very true
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report That about the same time one Constance Carse this deponents Cooke mayde goeing into this deponents garden at Croome to gather herbs, was then & there shott in the back & there with kild by some of the Irish Rebells but by whom he neither knoweth nor hath it been related vnto him
Edmond Pery
Jur 2o Sept 1653
Henry fflower
Th: sowthwell
Tho: Waring

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Edm: Perry B 14

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