Deposition of Charles Best

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Charles Best of Bealturbet in the parish of Annah in the county of Cavan a Brittish protestant being duly sworne deposeth that on or about the 27th of October last past 1641 in the daytyme, he this deponent was robd of & lost in cattell & corne, lynnen yarne & thread, woollen cloath & lynnen cloath with wool, & bills & bonds & other houshold goods amounteing to the summ of threscore pounds sterling
<a> by the meanes & hands of Phillip hugh mc Shane Rely in the County chepma n: Mullmore o Rely of or nere Bal lyhayes in the same county Chapman & his confederates & followers, And these traiterous actions outrages & violences were done & comitted & divulged in a Rebellious manner both against the deponent & & others as h e thinketh 100 more of English protestants within the same towne & this he knoweth to be true whom they also stript and robd of their goodes
The mark of Charles Best
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Jur viijo Jan 1641 coram nobis
Will: Hitchock
Hen: Brereton

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Charles Best Com Best
Cavan Jur viijo Jan: 1641