Deposition of John Calbecke

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John Calbecke Late of Monketowne in the parish of Trim and Countie of Meath gent duly sworne & examined the 2th daie of ffebruary Anno Domini 1641o deposeth That about the begining of November Last past; the Deponent being at his father Alvery Calbeckes house at Monketowne aforesaid, there came vnto the said house in the night time, one Michaell Marley of Athboy in the <A> said Countie merchant accompanied with about threescore rebells, and began to break the said house, & threatned to fire the said house over theire heads that were in it vnless they would open the doores to them, for prevention of which mischeife they were forced to open the doores, & the said Rebells entred & rifeled and robbed the same, and tooke away from the said house goods & houshould stuffe to a great value, which goods this deponent rescued by the meanes of some neighbours, & kild some, & hurt divers others of them & tooke some of them prisoners & carryed them to the Jaile at Trim aforesaid where one of them was hanged & the rest were rescued out of Prison by other rebells who came thither, And this deponent also saith That by that meanes this hee continued at Monkestowne aforesaid aboute sixe weekes after that, vntill the rebellion began soe generall thereabouts (& they owing great malice to him for his not yeilding to theire designes) hee was forced to betake himselfe to the woods & other obscure places for two or three dayes, and then was through many daingers escaped by night to Dublin by the helpe of his servant an Irishman, and the deponent Left all the said goods & other things at Monketowne aforesaid, a m moveable & immoveable amounting in the whole to Three hundred ffowerscore & one pounds & seaventeene shillings ster, which said goods together with the Lease L ands of Monketowne aforesaid one Thomas Might of Trim hath seised vppon and possessed as his owne proper goods and <B> chattles as the deponent is credibly informed; And hee also saith That he hee hath heard that the said Might hath hanged and robbed many of the Protestants thereabouts and is himselfe revolted from beg being a Protesta{nt} which hee Lately professed, & now is gone to Masse, And that the said Might hath also releived many of the rebells within the Pale who Layd seige to Drogheda.
J Calbecke
Jur 23o ffebr 1641o coram nobis
John Sterne
Hen: Brereton

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