Deposition of Emanuell Beale

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<11th of Aprill 1642>
I Emanuell Beale Curate of Mountrath in the Queenes Countie vnder mr Holmsted duly sworne haue <That since the rebellion began vizt about a month before christmas 1641> lost that he hath bene robbed & de s poyled by fflorence fits Patrick and his rebellious companie, the value of 9 li.
Invizt Cowes...............................................................3 li.-10 s.
In garden stuffe, potatoes
and other necessaries...................................................3 li.-0
And in goods in thes [ ] house by reason
of their suddaine rising................................................2-10 s.
and to this haue taken my
corporall oath the 11 daie of
Aprill
And deposeth further that the said fflorence with his companie did dig vp manie Coffins and other dead bodies of the protestants and dead mens bones being of protestants I in the parishe Church of Mountrah, otherwise called [clonnemoh] to [ ] goods which they thought had bin hidden there. And further saith that And some of his companie did murther a gentleman and his wife on mr Nickolson to whom after that the said fflorence had giuen a passe, & to promisedg them that they should to goe one their Joyrney peacably and yet they were murdered, and a great somme of money that they had taken awaie, and very faire and costly clothes, all which as I he heard for certaine that were carried to the said fflorence ffitzp his wief.
And that wicked companie haue shewed no mercy, & had no pittie [ ] vpon poore Englishe people, But they haue hanged manie and stript an infinite number of [ ] women and children, in the cold, which haue died through the same.
Emanuell Beale
Jurat 11o Apr 1642
John Sterne
Randall Adams.
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