Deposition of John Frith

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John ffrith of Athy in the County of Killdare skinner duly sworne & examined the 6to of Aprill 1642 sayeth that by this present rebellion he hath lost and is dispoyled of goods to the value vndermentioned vizt
In leather tand weat & dry and such like to the sume of tuelue pounds
In woll three pounds
In household goods seven pounds
in Cattle Eight pounds
In an house burnt by the Rebels directio n twenty foure pounds, but by whom the sayd goods wer so taken he cannot depose, for that when his house was robbed he was pursuing of the rebells that had stollen his Cowes, and the deponent had in his company some forty persons of Athy most being Irish of the towne att which tyme this depo <A> ther was apprehended one ffrancis Dempsy, in whose pockett was found 6 pewter spoones of the proper goods of this deponents. which he knew right well to haue beene taken away att the tyme of the aforsaid robbery Committed was by the Rebells being as he veryly beleveth of the Dempsyes. and perse Michell of Turlston in the County of Killdare and his Company: whervpon the said ffrancis Dempsy was apprehended & delivered to the Marshall Thomas welden of Athy esquire & by whose direction he was sent to Goale and was threatned to be hanged perfectly but afterward the said welden sayd that he wold not doe it for 500 li., for that it wold occation the burning of the towne, stephen Knoles a papist & now in <B> rebellion & the townes Clerke now in rebellion labering by all means to preserue to the the malefactor and so the very next morning the said ffran{cis} was sett at Large & hath since been { } a very mischeivous robber of the towne of a Athy and a bloody Murtherer as this deponent veryly beleveth by the report of the Cuntry
John ffirth
Jurat die et Anno
supradicti
John Sterne
Roger Puttocke
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John ffirth Jur
6 Apr 1642
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