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John Borrell of the Abbey of Strade in the County of Mayo gent aged 55 yeres or thereabouts sworne & examined before his Maiesties Commissioners in that behalf authorized deposeth and saith That since the begining of the present rebellion and by vizt about the xxth day of November 1641 Hee this deponent at the Abbey aforesaid was by force and Armes deprived robbed & dispojled of his beasts Cattle horses Corne hay howsholdstuff debts & other his goods & chattells of the value & to his Losse of CCxx li. sterling: But whoe the Rebells were that soe robbed and dispojled him he cannott tell, for the deponent & his wiffe being soe robd in the night & stript of their cloths by those they knew not fled away to save their Lives to Sir Luke Dillon with whome the deponent had formerly Left a horse pack of his broad cloth worth 80 li. in trust and vpon the said Sir Lukes promisse to restore <{8?}0 li.>it vpon demand. Howbeit the said Sir Luke still deteineth the said <A:> cloth Only (when the deponent came from him to Athlone and after which was about the begining of December last And the said Sir Luke Dillon gave vnto this deponent about viij li. in mony when he came from him & sent him also e to Athlone (vpon his earnest request ) 3 barrells of Malt & 4 wethers: And in the begining of december 1642 the deponent comeing from Athlone towards Dublin was at Clanee in the County of Dublin robbed by some Rebells there whom he knew not, of the best of his clothes, a pack of wooll, & some brasse & pewter
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signum predicti [mark] Johannis Borrell
Jur viijo Jan: 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton
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John Borrell viijo Jan
1643 Jur C:f
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