Deposition of Nicholas Roberts

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Copy of the deposition of Nicholas Roberts, fols 215r-215v, with the following variations:

Line 1, addition: ‘A copie only’
Line 8, omission: ‘vizt worth 188 li.’
Line 21, replacement: ‘Landlords’ replaces ‘kinsman’ in the original
Line 21, addition: ‘yeoman’
Line 22, addition: ‘good’
Line 22, addition: ‘about the latter end of Jan: 1641’
Line 23, addition: ‘he reapt at reaping time’
Line 28, addition: ‘of Stradbally of bar: Mc Guinny Esquire heretofore protestants & sworne’
Line 29, addition: ‘Intrusted by the Lord of Kerry with’
Line 30, addition: ‘com of Kerry’
Line 30, addition: ‘without a seidge the vse of their commander in chief of all the forces of the Rebellion’
Line 32, addition: <’Iron’>
Line 32, addition: <’Copia vera’>
Line 32, addition: ‘which said Daniell’
Line 33, addition: ‘the Castle of Trale’
Line 34, addition: ‘the other being brok’n at the tryall of the same’

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The following is an extract from an addition made to the deposition of Michael Vine,

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<symbol> He also sayth that one John Willyams alias John Roe here to fore of the Towne of Tralee heretofore servant to <f> one Thomas Day of Tralee aforesaid & since one of the warders of the short Castle of Tralee aforesaid aboute middsommer Last he stole forth out of the ward & ran to the Enemy that beseidged the sayd Castle & discouered to them a designe of the English of both Castles concerneing a prey of Cattle nere the Castle which they had gotten for theire releife had it not bene for the aforesaid discordy by which theire designed was defe{c}ted & they of the Castle for want of that prouision were inforst to yeild two months the sooner which said John Williams from that tyme went & bore armes amonge the rebells

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Nicholas Roberts Examinacion
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