Deposition of Tobias Mathew

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Tobias Mathew of the Towne of Wickloe duely sworne and examined deposeth that he was about the twentith day of November last 1641 robd and dispossest dispoyled of all his goods and Cattells by the Rebells of that County of Wickloe vizt Seaven and thirty head of Cattell whereof there were Twenty English Cowes and most of them in Calue worth att the least threescore and ten pounds Goods and houshold stuff worth at the least Thirty poundes The Lease of my his house and garden, there being eightene yeres to come worth att the least Thirty pounds and for one wholl yeres meanes rent due to me him att this Easter 1642 and for arreares of the last yere Thirty pounds and vpwards So my that his losses doe amount to in all to One hundred and three score poundes sterling
But I he cannot particulerly name the persons that robd me him by reason the whole English there were so suddenly affrighted of the Rebells neere approaching to Wickloe that we were by reason he was forced to fly and leave our his goods and Cattell to saue our lyfes his life only I he heard by relacion that one Dudley mc Shane of <A> Bollenleah hath a great part of my his Cattell and one Richard Quin of Wickloe hath a great part of his my his goods
Tobias Mathew
Jur 16 March 1641
William Aldrich
William Hitchcock

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68 Wickloe 70 o
Tobias Mathew Jur
16 Marcij 1641
20 Nov
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