Deposition of Robert Foote

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Robert ffoote Late of Ballinekill in the Queens County merchant sworne and examined deposeth and saith, That since the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof, Hee was and still is depriued robbed or otherwise dispojled of his Cattle horses howsholdstuffe, was wares merchandizes wynes debts thinterest of his farme & other goodes & chattells of the value & to his present losse of twoe hundreth and fowre pownds ster by Teige ô Boodane of Balliraggot in the County of Kilkenny merchant donnell McShane now of ffarmoy where Liuetennant Gilbert Lately Lived in the Queens County gent Peirce fitzGarrald of Ballarone in the Queens County an Attorney at Lawe William Hetherington Late of Ballyrone Esquire Charles the sonne of Barnaby Dempsie of Knock in the same County, fflorence fitzPatrick of osse Castletowne in Ossery Esquire in the same County Edmund Butler eldest sonn to the Lord Mountgarrett. w ith divers oth Edmund ffitzpatrick of Desartgalen parrish nere Ballinekill Tho: o Halan of the same parrish Late Bailiff to the Erle of Londonderry & divers others whose Rebells, whose names he cannott tell being in number Eight & or nyne hundreth as this deponent beleeveth whoe att the same tyme forcibly & rebelliously tooke away from other englishe protestants the number of 700 heade of Cattle more or thereabouts all which this deponent sawe, & the same Rebells alsoe then or about the same tyme robbed & [ ] bereft a number of other protestants in the said Countie of other g their goodes & chattells, And the said fflorence ffitzpatrick & others the said Rebells hanged vpp to death one Mr William Hill the father & Tho: Hill the sonn and robbed the said Lieutennant Gilbert of all his goodes at ffarmoy Castle
Robertt ffoott
Jur 17o Januarij 1642
Hen: Brereton
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Queens County
Robert ffoote Jur: 17o Jan: 1642
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