Examination of Christopher Barry

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The examinacion of Christopher Barry of Dublin Butcher of the age of five and twenty yeares or thereabout taken before vs the 20th of october ob 1643 by vertue of the before menconed order of the right honorable the Lord Justices and Counsell
The said said Examinat being duely sworne <g> and examined saith that he bought at Ballymoore in the County of westmeath 17 Couwes and driving the same towards Dublin was stopped at Kinnegad by the soildiers and warders there of the Castle theare, vppon the 5th of this instant october vntill they constrayned him to pay [ ] 17 s. as custome for passages of the said cattle, being 12 d. a head and then passing from thence, he came the same day, to <h> Newecastle, in the County of Meath with the said Cattle where he was againe stayed, vntill he was compelled to pay to the soildiers of the Garrison there, 17 s. more for contribucion money, towards the maintenance of the Catholicque Army, and of that Garrison, and received an accquittance for the same vnder the hand of on Gerrard Keiting. who as he said was Sergeant to Sir Richard Barnewell Baronett. and this Examinat further saith, that the same day, at moivally, certaine of the said Sir Richard <i> Barnewells soildiers, quartered there tooke two of this Examinats Cowes from him, and kept the same vntill they constrayned him to redeeme them, [ ] by payment of foure shillings eightpence vnto them.
Christopher Barry
Ri: Bolton Canc
Gerrard Lowther
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