Deposition of John Brooks

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John Brooks of the parish of Balleheys in the Barrony of Loughtye & County of Cavan yeoman Aged fforty years or thereabouts being duely sworne deposeth that the ffower & twentieth day of October last he was Robed and lost in Cattle worth tenn pounds in houshold goods provition for the house & other goods worth tenn pounds in all Amounting to twenty Pounds By the Meanes of Phillip mc Hugh mc Slane ô <a> Rely and other Irish Rebells of his Company whose names this deponent knoweth not, And further deposeth <to the [end?]> that by some of the said Company they this deponent & other English protestants were threatned to be presently Murthered vl vnless they wold presently be gone, And if they went to Dublin they shold fynd smale releiffe there, if for England as litle there, for it England was in the same case, & further said that they had longe paid rents to the English [ ] But they wold make them pay it back againe, further alledging that what they did they had authority for the same for from the kinge, or words to that effect.
John his [mark] mark Brookes
Deposed before us
5t of January 1641
Roger Puttocke
John Watson:

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John Brookes: Com Cavan
5 Jan: 1641 Jur
hand Intw

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