Deposition of Giles Dewhurst

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Giles Dewhurst now of the Citty of Dublin Clothworker sworne examined saith
That on or about the first of december last 1641 he this deponent brought into the porte or haven of Dublin in a barque of Liverpoole out of England soe much Wollen cloth as cost in yorkshire twoe hundreth and eight Powndes ster with intencion to have sold the same within the Cittie of Dublin. but before he had landed the same, the same barque by extreame tempest forcing the Ancker was driven a shore at or nere Clantarfe nere Dublin, When and where divers Rebells whose names he knows not, boarded the same barque & robbed and pillaged the same, and forceibly from thence tooke away with them all thes deponents said cloth soe by this deponent brought thither as aforesaid: soe as he is quite deprived of and hath Lost the same
Gyels Dewhurst
Jur 7o ffebr 1641 coram nobis
Joh Watson:
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Giles Dewhurst Jur 7o
ffebr 1641
Intw
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bark rob

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