Deposition of Thomas Thatcher & Nicholas Keavan

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Thomas Thatcher of the Citty of Dublin yeoman and Nicholas Keavan of the same Butcher sworne and examined before his Maiesties Commissioners depose and say That since the present Cessation of Armes was agreed on vizt on the 18th of Sept 1643 in the foorenoone <A> divers of the irish Rebells vizt Captain Barnard Talbott Captain John Welsh and one Captain Birne & a great number of other Rebells irish horse and foote being armed in warlike manner martched and came to certeine growndes nere the suburbs of Dublin And then and there and from thence forceibly tooke drive and carried away a great number of cattle horses & other thinges of the goodes of the Inhabitantes of the Citty or suburbs of Dublin & places nere the same And amongst the rest they the said Tho: Thatcher saith that they amongst the rest tooke away of the goodes of Margery Thatcher his mother 2 Cowes worth 12 li. And that the said Margery before that tyme was dispoyled of and lost in other goodes & meanes the value of 33 li. ster more by meanes of this Rebellion And the said Nicholas Keavan saith That the Rebells Irish aforenamed at the same tyme tooke and did carry of his goods one Cowe worth 3 li.: & that by meanes of the present Rebellion he lost at other times the value of 50 s. more, And both theis deponentes say that the Rebells said irish did not nor would euer yet restore any of the same goodes either to the said Margery or Nicholas Keavan But still deteine them & a multitude of the other goodes which they tooke away at the same tyme
Thomas Thatcher
signum [mark] predicti Nicholi Keavan
Jur viijo Jan: 1643
Hen: Jones
Edw Pigott

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