Deposition of Agnes Winsor

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<102> Agnes Winsor the late wife of William Winsor late of Aghenahinche in the County of ffermanaghe, Tanner formerly sworne and examined doth now in addition to the former examination depose & say: That her said husband & shee with their tenn children in the beginning of the Rebellion being all stript starke naked (after they were robbed of all their meanes) were in that posture turned away in frost & snow amongst about Nynescore more of men, women and children (all English Protestants) & in that posture fled away & through many strang difficulties & dangers of their Lives escaped to Dublin being threescore myles from their habitation; And after their comeing hither her said husband takeing vp Armes against the Irish Rebells gott a bruise amongst the Rebells as he fought against them at the battaile of Clantarfe nere Dublin, Whereof he languishing 5 or 6 daies died of that bruise Leaving her & her 10 tenn Children (whereof 5 of them were young infants) the soule mourners of his death, & all without meanes of subsistence, And afterwards her eldest sonn whoe had alsoe taken vp Armes against the Irish Rebells in was slaine in fight against them att Dungannon in the County of Tirone & his wife imprisoned together with her owne mother amongst the Rebells for above a yere, One of whose children she was forced to leave amongst those Rebells, & whether it bee alive or dead she cannott tell, Another of her said sonns husbands children the Deponent hath with & by her hard labour & endeavours hither to mainteined with her owne that survive the rest, she further saith that another of her sonns was starved to death in Sir James Craig’s Castle, And afterwards twoe of her Daughters comeing betwixt the Towne of Naas & the Citty of Dublin were most barbarously murthered in the way (amongst many other Protestants) by divers bloudy Rebells to her unknown

of those daughters beinge married married left twoe Children with the deponent, the one whereofe is since dead, & the other is yet aliue mainteined & kept by her the Deponent out of her poore labours & enedavours

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Jur ut Supra 5 Jan: 1641Signed predicti Agnes
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