Deposition of Alice Steele

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Alice the Relict of Hamnett Steele late of Cavan in the County of Cavan Inholder aged about fforty one yeres sworne and examined before his Maiesties Commisioners sworne & examined deposeth and saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion vizt the 24th of October 1641 shee this deponent and her said husband then aliue were deprived robbed and dispojled of the possession Rents and proffits of their howses and lands worth 24 li. per annum whereof she accompteth that since 3 yeres proffits are lost, amounting in all to 72 li. 40 li. And that she is like to be deprived of and loose the future proffitts of the said howses and Landes worth 24 li. per annum, vntill a peace be established And that they were then alsoe depriued & dispojled of other goods & chattells worth 108 li., vntill a peace be established And saith That the parties that soe robbed and dispojled them <180 li. a> were Patrick Brady sonn to Turlogh ffarsy Brady of the towne of Cavan gent & by the said Turlogh ffarsy Brady himself
John mc Kilbawne ô Rely of Cavan aforesaid gentleman
Patrick Brady of Cavan aforesaid Gentleman
Patrick mc Gurmeley of Cavan aforesaid gentleman
Patrick Ready of Cavan aforesaid husbandman
William ô Rereten of the same towne Grey Marchant &
Teige Brady of Swealan nere the Cavan Gentleman &
all x of the Countie of Cavan aforesaid, & divers others whom she cannot name And saith That about the 13th of october 1643 her said husband & eight more of the lord Borlases troope & 18 boyes all protestants in their Company ryding on or nere the blackhill in the nere virginia in the said County of Cavan towards their garrison which was nere Tanckerdstowne in the County of Meath, were then and there assaulted and sett vpon by the Rebells of that County of Cavan, and were then and there miserably slaine & murthered by those Rebells, whereof, one Henry mc Cabe of Cavan, (whoe this deponents husband brought vpp of a child,) was one, as he himself hath since confessed But who the other Rebells were that soe slew them she cannot tell [ ]
<Dr J: Mr B>
signum predictæ Aliciæ
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Jur viijo Jan: 1643 coram
Hen: Jones Edw Pigott

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Cavan
Alice Steele viijo Jan
1643
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Instances of truth

[Copy at MS 832, fols 54r-54v]