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Dame Elizabeth Harris Relict of Sir Thomas Harrys of knight Late of Tralye in the County of Kerry, sworne & examened, deposeth & saith that since the beginning of the present Rebellion her said husband Sir Thomas Harrys knight & shee were by meanes of the Rebellion in the said County deprived & robbed of there Plate, monny Jewells housholdstuffe, beasts, Cattle, horses sheepe & other goods & chattles amounting in value to the somme of two thousand pounds sterling, And that shee by meanes of the present Rebellion is depriued & expelled from the possession, Rents & profitts of Lands assigned & appointed vnto her life, for her Joynture, amounting to ffiue hundred pounds per annum, one yeares profitts thereof being already Lost, And the future profitts she is Like to Lose & to be depriued of, vntell a peace be established And she further saith that as shee is creadibly informed, and hath too <symbol> greate cause to beleeue her said I husband Sir Thomas Harrys after hee had defended the Castle of Tralye aforesaid for six Monethes or thereabouts against the vyolent assaults & attempts of the Rebbells he was driuen and exposed to such wants that hee dranke puddle & corrupted water, And by that meanes & other wants he dyed, and that after his death the remains of those men that assisted him & were not dead wanting a gouernor & meanes were forced to leaue or surrender the said Castle being not able any longer to keepe the same

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