Deposition of William Perkins

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William Perkins of Ballyhayes in the Barony of Loghtee and Countie of Cavan a Brittish Protestant deposeth
That about the 24th of October Last he was robbed and despoyled of his goods to the valew hereafter expressed viz
In Cattle Corne and household stuffes one hundred pounds
The partyes by whom the same robbery was committed wer Hugh Brady of Ballyhayes [col?] and his tenants and Gillousy Rele of the same and diuers others of the Irish of the Cuntry.
They sayed they wer the Queens soldiers and had the kings broade seale to warrant their actions, and farther deposeth that comming vp to Dublyn after the said Robbery, he this deponent his wife and six Children wer stripped starke naked in ther Iorny, by sundry Irish vnknowen to this deponent and that fourteen or fifteen hundred persons being protestants travailing in Company with this deponent wer in like manner vsed and dealt with
4to Janaury 1641 before vs
John Sterne
Will: Hitchcock

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Jur 4to Jan: 1641
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