Deposition of Anthony Huiberts

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Anthony Huiberts of Ballimad in the parish of Balruddery in the County of Dublin, aged Thirty yeares or thereabouts, being duely Sworne vppon the holy Evangelist Deposeth That on the Second day of December Last 1641 aboute Twelue of the Clock at Midnight he was robbed and dispoyled of all his goods at Ballimad aforesaid being of the severall values af o resaid followeing vizt. in Linnen, Woollen, Brass, Pewter, <A> provision for the house, and other goods, and in Corne, hay & Cattle worth ffive hundred pounds. By & by the meanes of Captain Barnewell of Aungorr in the County of Meath, accompanied with divers other Irish Rebbells, And this deponent, further saith, That on the ffifteenth of this Instant moneth of January 1641 he was robbed and dispoyled him of all his goods in the Towne of Holme=Patrick in the said County of Dublin, being of the severall values followeing vizt in Linnen, Woollen, Brass, Pewter, provision for the house, and other goods, worth and in Corne, Hay, Cattle, and ffyring worth Three hundred pounds By & by the meanes of George Blackney of Rackniehore in the County of Dublin and William Treavers of Ballykeadt in the said County gentleman. and their Servants, and other Irish Rebbells, in all amounting vnto Eight hundred pounds, And this deponent further saith, that his wife and ffive Children had much to doe to Escape with their lives, being often threatned, being often to be hanged, The Rebells Sayeing she was the wife of a Traytor. And this deponent further sayeth, That some of the aboue mencioned Rebbells had Murthered his ffather Derrick Huibarts of Holme=Patrick gentleman with divers other English Protestants but what nomber knoweth not.
Anthony huibart
Elizabeth [mark] St Laren
Jur 29th Jan. 1641 cor
John Sterne
William Aldrich

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