Deposition of Thomas Holway

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Tertio Januarij 1641
Thomas Holway late of the towne & parish Aghram in the same parish within the Barrony of Barrinecurr and County of Wicklow yeoman aged 70 yeres or thereabouts an English Protestant sworne and examined deposeth and saith
That on or about the xiijth day of November last he about one or 2 a clock in the afternoone he this deponent was robbd stript and dispoiled of cattle to the value of 35 li. of howshold goods worth 20 li. of ready mony 20 li. at least of bondes & specialties for debts worth 20 li. more at least of his tenement in Aghrim whereof he had a lease for 21 yeres in being for the interest of which he might have had 25 li. ster: of soe many potatoes & other rootes and thinges in his garden as were worth 20 marks of Hay & other goodes worth 20 nobles In all amounting to 140 li. ster which Robbery & wickednes was done vpon and against him <A> by luke Birne late of in the County of wicklow gentleman and his souldiers & company of rebells which were as this examinant hath beene credibly tould & is perswaded 500 in number
And saith that the same Rebells then tooke forceibly tooke from and robbed this Examinant of and his wife of all or the most of their clothes and tould this examinant & others of his neighbors protestants that if they presently did not goe away they would hang them all & leave none of them all alive
And saith further that about a weeke afterwardes the same Rebells or some of them did most barbarously hang vp to death in Knockragh Park one Edward Snape then of Knockragh Inkeeper and 2 other persons his neighbors, one of them being a Locksmith
signum Tho: Holway [mark]
Jurat iijo Januarij 1641
coram nobis
Roger Puttocke
William Aldrich

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