Examination of Ursula Row re William Keating

fol. 293r

Vrsula Row wife of Nicholas Row of Bridgetowne aged sixty yeares or thereabouts being sworne & examined touching the foresaid william Keating deposeth & saith vizt That the said william dwelt with in halfe a mile to the Examinants habitacion at Bridgetowne aforesaid & the deponent saith that she hath seen & knowne the said william as wel{l} the first yeare of the rebellyon as sithence, to weare a sword & to goe in Company with the Irish Rebells then in Armes against the english: & the deponent further saith that the said william in the begining of the rebellyon forcibly tooke away eight sheep of the deponents husbandes goods, out <f> of the custody of one Richard Stafford, where the same were left in trust to be kept by the deponents husband at his departure into wales Her cause of Knowledge is for that the deponent did see the said eight sheep with the said Keating & in his possession, who told the deponent that he tooke the same away in manner aforesaid & further saith not wished that he had got & taken more of the deponents goods, and further saith not &c
vrsula [mark] Row her marke
Sworne before vs 8o
ffebr 1653
Am Andrewes
Tho Hart
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