Deposition of Richard Davye

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Richard Davys Late of Patrickstowne in the County of Meath yeoman sworne & examined deposeth & sayth That on or about the fowrth day of November now Last past, wa he this deponent at Patrickstowne aforesaid, was by the Rebells there robbed stripped and dispoyled a t of his of his goods & chattles & of the values hereafter mencioned vizt howsholdstuffe and apparell, & provition for howsekeeing worth xxxv li. j s. ix d. one horse worth iij li. Beasts cattle & swyne worth six pownds three shillinges, ready money xv s. & debts Liij li. In all amounting to his Losse of ffowrscore and seventeene pownds xix s. ix d. ster And sayth the names of soe many of the rebells that soe robbed him as he can remembers are theis named vizt <A> Plunckett styled Captain Plunkett being a Comander of 100 Rebells or thereabouts Brian ô Noone and Richard Plunckett both of Patrickstowne aforesaid yeoman Richard McCollimmer of Daruar & Nicholas ô Noone of the same in the same County yeomanPlunckett of Woale Castle in the parrish of Loghtree & said County gent & dyvers others rebells And this deponent for saffty of his life flying away in the night hadd his wife & 2 children there stript naked & robbed of all their cloths & yet were inforced in the Cold weather to fly away alsoe & come to Dublin: Where they now are in great want and misery: B haveing all their meanes taken from them to their vtter vndoeinge
The mark [mark] of the said Richard davys
Jurat 16th of ffeb: 1641
William Aldrich
John Sterne

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26. Meath 56
Richard Davys Jur
16 ffebr 1641
Intr
4. no