Deposition of John Kettle

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John Kettle fermer an English Protestant Late of Newtowne alias Castlecool in the Barony of Castlecool in the County of Fermannagh Deposeth that the 23d of October Last he was robbed and had taken from him in Cattle worth sixty pounds in householde goods worth fowrteen pounds by about thirty or forty persons (whose names he knoweth not) under the command of Rory Maiguire, breaking into his house whence by a back door this deponent escaped and in a boate of his owne gotte to Belter{bert} but where agayne he was robbed of his boate worth sixe pounds by the Company of Phillip McMulmore O Realy’s Company soe that he lost in all to the valew of fourscore pounds, and was afterward in his Journey severall times stript naked; and this Deponent farther sayth that he heard at Belterbet some of the Rebel: rout (but whoe they were he knoweth not) that they had the King’s broad seal for what they did and that if he and this deponent and other English then robbed went to Dublin they should loose all their heads on Dublin green and that it was at bad in England as there

Jurat Jan: 5th 1641
Coram nobis John Watson
Randall Adams[ ] 80 li.

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John Kettle Com ffermanagh
Jur v° Jan 1641
Intw Hand
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