Deposition of John Smith

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John Smith late of Lismore neer Kilmore in the County of Cauan Carpenter aged 45 yeares or therabouts being duly sworne &c. saith
< A > That about the 3d of November 1641 he went from Sir ffrancis Hmiltons Castle of Kela vnto Lismore aforesaid where { w } Phillip mc Milmore o Reily liued and where also he saw Doctor [Jui s?] Henry Jones who came thither for safety, and who told this deponent that there was no abiding for him there, & bad him hasten away to Sir ffrancis Castle againe and withall desired this deponent to convey a letter to the said Sir ffrancis if possibly he could, who vndertooke it, and by the way this deponent was mett by Shane mc Phelim o Reily who liued neere blackbridge in the said County and a servant of one John Parker named Rely (his Christen name he knoweth not) with 3 or 4 persons more who robbed & stripped this deponent his wife & 3 Children then on the way going to Kela aforesaid in a boat or Cott by water of all that he had to the value of three or fower pounds ster.
And further this deponent cannot say
John Smith

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