Deposition of Agnes Machem

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Agnes Machem wife of Thomas Machem of Newtowne alias Castlecoole in the parish of Drummully halfe Barrony of Coole and County of ffermanagh Cordiner a souldier that did goe downe in his Maiesties service vnder the Commaund of Captaine Aldridg towards Drogheda (shee being an English Protestant Aged thirty fower yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne deposeth that her said husband was Robed and Lost in Cattle worth twenty pounds a lease of a house & backside worth three pounds in debts eight pounds in leather worth and glowes & bootes worth twelve pounds in household goods provition & other goods worth twenty pounds in ready mony fforty shilings in all Amounting to threescore and five pounds By the meanes of Captaine Rorye <a> Magwire of hassetts towne in the Barrony of Lurge and County aforesaid, Leiftenant William Greaham, with a great Multitude of Irish people that was in Armes with them Assembled to the Number of ffower hundreth or thereabouts And that shee & her husband was both stript of there Cloathes by some of the said Company assembled the five & twentieth day of October last about twelve of the Clock in the day tyme, And that shee see some of the Company give vnto Thomas Laine of Newtowne a Mortall wound within aforesaid gent of the Age of ffowerscore yeares or thereabouts One Mortall wound in his head of which wound (shee hath heard) that the said Thomas Laine dyed And since she hath not seene him nor heard anye thing to the contrary, But heard that they had Murthered to the Number of fforty English Protestants wihtin the said parish or thereabouts

Agnes Matchem the marke of [mark]

This deposed before us the 4th of January 1641
Roger Puttocke
Hen: Brereton

She is willing to goe for England

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Comit: ffermanagh
Agnes Machem
Jan: 4° 1641
Intw Hand
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