Deposition of William Travers

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William Travers of Baltinglas in the parish of Rathdrum in the Barony of Ballynacor in the County of Wicklow a Brittish Protestant duly sworne & examined deposeth and saith That about the nynth day of November last past betweene the hower of three of the Clocke in the morning & eight of the same day hee was daingerously besett and by force & Armes assaulted & robbed of his estate to the value following of horses & Cowes valued at an hundred pounds sterling, of hay valued at fower pounds, of swine valued at thirty shillings, of houshould stuffe and garden fruites valued at fowerteene pounds, of writeings and other notes for debt valued at fifteene pounds, of ready money nyneteene pounds of his two Leases of Ballymoney & Ballyard in the said County of Wicklow valued at fifty pounds or thereabouts Amounting in all to an hundred ffower score and five pounds 19 s. ster: by the hands or meanes of Luke Birne of Bally Kilclogheron John mc Bryan ô Birne of Ballynacorr Tirlogh oge o Birne <A> and Donell Birne brother to the said Tirlogh sonnes of Donnell mc Hugh Duffe of Clarey who at the same time threatned that if the deponent did not depart that night following they would kill him alleading withall that the land was theires and that they would have it all againe And at the same time the said Rebells & others whose names the deponent knoweth not robbed & dispossest all the English Protestants in those parts
William Travers [mark] his marke
Jur 17o ffebr 1641 coram nobis
John Sterne
Roger Puttocke
Randall Adams

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