Deposition of Henry Calladyne

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Henry Calladyne late of Mullaghmore in the parish of Dartry in the Countie of Monaghan sworne & examined the thirtieth day of January in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred fortie & one deposeth
That on or about the 23th day of October Last hee was forcibly robbed & dispoiled of his estate to the value following vizt of Cowes, calves, heifers, horses & mares to the value of ffowerscore and sixteene pounds at the least, of sheep to the value of fifteene pounds, of Corne & hay to the value of thirtie pounds, of houshouldstuffe & other goods about his house to the value of twentie pounds, of readie money fifteene pounds odd money of his lease of Tullytrane in the Barony of Loughtee & Countie of Cavan, to the value of an hundred pounds & vpwards, of another Lease of Curglasse and Pollafrye in the Barony aforesaid, worth twenty pounds & vpwards, of another Lease of Mullaghmore aforesaid worth forty pounds In all amounting to three hundred thirty sixe pounds by the hands or meanes of <a> John mc Donnell, Owen Roe, Donnogh Roe, Patricke mc Gowen, Henry Dalton (a servant to Sir Robert fforth) hugh o Donnoghan of Mullaghamore aforesaid Captaine Hugh ô Rely Owen mc Anynny (a papist Preist) Edmond ô Gowen, & many other whose names nor persons this deponent knoweth not/
And at the same time some of their Company dragged this deponent vppon the ground & drew their skeanes threatning to kill him, which they had presently executed vppon him, had not some of the ill best of his neighbours begged his life, & at that tyme hee ess escaped theire hands, yett as hee was comeing towards Dublin fifteene myles distant from his owne house, seaven or eight rebelljous theeves of another Company, beat this deponent till hee was in great dainger of his Life. rifeled him. & him left him naked, since which tyme hee never durst returne into those parts, but hath Lived here in great discontent & misery, & left fower of his Children among them which hee knoweth not whether they bee Liveing or dead, And at the said time the said Rebells & others robbed murthered or dispoiled all the English Protestants thereabouts (as hee hath credibly heard)

Henry Calladyme [mark] his marke
Jur: 1 ffebr 1641:
Randall: Adams:
John Sterne

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