Deposition of Hughe Booth

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Captain Talbott and Comanded to be brought back (as this deponent hath bin credibly informed and beleeveth) becawse they had not paid ransome But becawse the deponent & his fellow prisoner suspected such pursuite they went away or rather fled by a secrett by way soe as they escaped & gott to Dublin: Neuertheles the deponent then was then deprived of and Lost his horse, sword, pistolls cloake & other things worth fifteene pounds & lost xj li. of his pay in that tyme of his restraint, & expended vij li. or thereabouts in prison. And this deponent further saith That on Thursday before the 23th of October when the Rebellion apparantly first began this deponent mett in seuerall Companies by 12. 10. 8 & lesser numbers seuerall men that seemed to be selected for souldjers amounting to one about one hundred men betwixt Dublin and Dunshaglin 12 myles distant: And asking some of them whose men they were or from whence they came some gaue churlish Answeres [ ] demanding by what authority he asked the question, others answered they were goeing to Dublin and from thence were to goe over sea but none of them would tell whoe their Captaine or Comander was but all of them went towards Dublin and were or seemed to bee all very able Lusty yong men & Like souldjers and soe the deponent then conceived them to bee And since he hath bin and is verely perswaded they were such as came to assist the takeing & surprizeing of the Castle of Dublin: And further saith that the deponent ouer and besides his said woundes received and imprisonment and iminent danger of death hath lost and bin dampnified by [ ] meanes of the present Rebellion the summe of One hundred & fifty powndes Besides his yerely imployment at the Navan worth 20 li. per annum, whereof he <210 li.> accompteth 3 yeres proffit Amounting to Lx li. to be lost, and <20 li. per annum> he is like to be deprived of & loose the future proffits thereof vntill a peace be established
<Jur Dr. J: H.B.>
Signum predicti Hugonis Booth [mark]
Jur vijo Jan: 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton
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Hughe Booth La of the Citty of Dublin gent sworne and examined deposeth and saith That about Midsomer 1642 Hee this deponent nere the Citty of Dublin was deprived robbed and dispojled of Cowes worth 32 li., And at seuerall tymes after he was alsoe nere Dublin aforesaid robbed and depriued of horses & Mares worth about 25 li. And further saith That he this deponent being Comander of a troope of horse garrisoned at Miltowne about 2 myles from Dublin and haveing constantly offronted the Rebells & performed (as he conceiveth) most acceptable servacs against them on his Maiesties behalfe about the 2d of June 1643 went out vpon a party with 7 other troopers vnder his command to scowre the parts thereabouts and riding along nere vnto the howse of Merian belonging An ambush of horsmen Rebells Comanded <A> by Captain Barnard Talbott sudden Consisting of thirty five in number suddenly assaulted them: And then and there after such a skirmish as the deponent and 5 more (whereof twoe were slayne) could make; Twoe flying or escapeing away) this deponent & the other 3 that stood to the skirmish being all shrowdly wounded, were forced to yeild themselues to those Rebells & were carried away prisoners to the Castle of Arklowe, and were there kept prisoners, howbeit one of them vizt William Pigeon after 9 weeks, was exchanged for one that was miller to the said Captain Talbott, and another named Robert Edwards then paid 30 li. ransome But as for the deponent and the fowrth prisoner by name John Woodyard they still remained closse prisoners vntill the end of 22 weekes yet in daily danger of death & in much want & miserie Howbeit then it pleased god to stirr up the harts of one Sir Henry <B> Bealing knight prime man of the Rebells county Counsell and Teige oge Birne to giue them a warrant of inlargement, wherevpon they being sent away were neuertheless pursued by the meanes of the said Captain
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