Deposition of Robert Ovington

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Robert Ovington of Novan in the County of Meath gent an English protestant sworne & examined deposeth & saith That on or about the xxvjth day of November last past hee this examinant at Novan aforesaid was robbed & dispoiled of his goods Cattell Chattells & debts to the value following vizt In howshould goods of seuerall sorts & provision of howshould to the value of ffifty foure pownds sterling In Cattle Corne & hay worth Twenty eight pownds sterling In debts due to this deponent by sundry people by bonds, bills, & by other writings without writings in rents & otherwise Twoe hundred Twenty six pownds, The lease of a Castle & Thirty eight howses & Lands in & about the Novan which cost this deponent in building repayring & improving the somme of Twoe hundred & fourty pownds In wearing apparell when this deponent was stripped & other suits of Cloths in his howse to the value of eight pownds sterling Amounting in all to the somme of ffiue hundred ffifty six pownds sterling Of all which goods Cattell Chattles howshouldstuff & debts this deponent saith hee was dispossessed robbed & dispoiled by & by the meanes & Rebellion of <A> Philip ô Rely of the Com of Cavan, Captaine Beetagh sone of Edward Beetagh of Moynalty in the Com of Meath Esquire & theire confederates accomplics & souldiers whoe stripped this deponent & beate bruised & most cruelly vsed this deponent threatning & protesting that noe Englishman should stay in the kingdome & therefore charged him to bee gone vppon paine of death, & soe after imprisonment expeld him to his great greif & vtter ruine being aged poore & even naked yet enforced to fly for safegard of his life.
Robert Ovington
Jurat 19th March 1641
William Aldrich
William Hitchcocke.

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