Deposition of Robert Hall
- Reference: MS 809, fols 334r-334v
- County: Wicklow
- Date: 19/3/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Assault, Robbery, Stripping, Words
Robert Hall Late Mooney in the County of Wicklow a servant vnto Robert Valentine of Dublin Cooper, duly sworne and examined deposeth and saith That hee being at his said Masters ffarme Mooney aforesaid about the Moneth of November Last the rebells tooke from his said Masters ffarme goods and Chattles vizt Corne cattle horses houshold goods and implements of husbandry worth an hundred and twenty pounds <A> pounds At which time hee heard one John Doile of the Rocke neare Arklow gent and his daughter Margery his say that the English must bee of their religion, and that they did not care what men his Maiesty sent out of England for where the King would send one the Queene would send twenty and the said John Doile having beene a Protestant vntill the beginning of this rebellion is now revolted and gone to Masse, And further deposeth that some of the rebells stripped this deponent three times & tooke from him Cloathes & money belonging to himselfe worth fortie shillings, And that one Lawrence <B> mc Art of Castletowne in the Countie of Wickloe husbandman then stabbed this examinat dep onent with his dagger into the Ey and forced him to Lay downe his head that hee might cutt it of and yett forbore so to doe, but hee & the rest tooke all his said Masters goods that they could finde there.
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