Deposition of Thomas Mason

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Thomas Mason of the Citty of Dublin Baker formerly deposeth & examined in Addition to his former examinacion, saith That about the first d of december 1641 one John Woodfen Retayner to the gran <A> Rebell Toole now of or nere Powerscourt, with his Complicees & partakers did in the night time forceibly & feloniously take & carry away of and from the Lands of Killenure in the County of Dublin nere Rathfarnam seventeene Cowes and heffers all English breed of the goods of him this deponent worth Lx li. As hee the said John Wenden Woodfen hath now lately about a yere since himself confessed to him this deponent, And withall the said when this deponent asked him why he tooke them away, hee Answered and said That he might as well take them away as another & said further that viijt or tenn of those cattle were stollen from him the said Woodfen afterwards, Howbeit he the said Woodfen had gotten them againe, & hanged the theefe, And att the same tyme the said Woodfen confessed vnto & tould him this deponent That he the said Woodfen when he tooke away this deponents cattle did alsoe take & carry awaie threescore sheepe of the goodes of the [ ] ArchBishop of Dublin
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