Deposition of Robert Johnson

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Robert Johnson Late of oghall in the County of Cavan yeoman sworne & examined saith deposeth That about the xxvjth of October Last Dorothy Moines widow late of [ og ] Moinhall aforesaid, & her then husband were dispoyled robbed & deprived by the Rebells within the said Countie of their goods and chattells & of the values following vizt All her howsehold goodes worth 350 li. beasts and cattle horses sheepe corne and hay & fuell & provition for howsekeepeing worth as this deponent verely beleeveth 1620 li., and in arreres of <{li.}> rents 100 li. 50 li. thereof owing by a Rebell & thother by one Robbed by the Rebells and disabled to satisfie Besides divers debts the certeine particulers whereof he cannot expresse: And sayth that the parties that soe dispoiled robbed and dispoyled deprived the said Dorothy <a> Moines and her husband were theis that follow vizt Mullmore ô Rely ofin the County of Cavan gentleman ffarrell o Rely of Belturbett gent ffarrell ô Rely of Drumroose gent Patrick ô Sheridan ofyeoman all of the County of Cavan aforesaid Shane Bradie ofnere Cavan gent & Hugh Brady of [ ] in the same County yeoman and Michaell Smith sonn to Parson Smith gent & divers others of their souldiers complicees or Comanders vnder their Comand to the number of 60 in all whoe haveing first attempted and assaulted the Castle of Moinhall & offered if they might come in they wold only stay there all night and goe away in the morning: Wherevpon the gat dore of the gate being opened th the dore of the Castle being opened: they the said Rebells the next morning tooke away part of the said goods & left a guard of men there till they had carried away the residue: pillageing & stripping all the English servants & neighbours there of all they hadd: & after whenas the said Mris Moynes for saffetie of her liffe was thence fledd & comeing by dunboyne the way for Dublin she was

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first stript of all her clothes and after Thomas the gardner her servant was nere Dunboine slaine by the Rebells in defence of her
Robert Johnson
Jur 21o Marij 1641
Roger Puttocke
Randall Adams

Robert Johnson pro Dorothea Moines
Jur 21o Marcij 1641
Cert fact
Intw hand

[Copy at MS 832, fols 66v-67r]