Deposition of Elizabeth Hooper

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Elizabeth Hooper late of the Cittie of Waterford wife to Lawrence Hooper of the same skinner (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined bef ore vs by vertue of a comission beareing date &c concerneing the robberies and spoiles since this rebellion comitted by the rebells in the Province of Munster deposeth and saith, for & in the behalfe of her said husband since the begining of March 1641 comitted in the said Cittie of Waterford That the said Lawrence Hooper lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vzt value of 58 li.__11 s.
Of English Cattle to the value of thirty pounds Of skines white leather wooll houshould stuffe and prouision to the val u e of ten pounds Of ready monyes and gould ringes to the value of eight pounds eleven shillinges The totall of his losses amounts to eight and fiftie pounds eleven shillinges The deponent saith that t he 14th day of ffebruary And The deponent sayth that the 14th day of ffebruary 1641 one ffrances Wise of Waterford aforesaid gentleman violently in a rebellious maner tooke away fiue of this deponents Cattle & the rest of her Cattle & goods were then and there forceably taken away by Paule Waddinge of the same gentleman & John Levet of the same merchant The deponent saith that aboute the begining of March 1641 this deponents said husband comeing along with the women and children through St Johns gate of Waterford aforesaid (whoe were to be sent downe to a place called the passadge) one Cary (whose Christian name she knoweth not) formerly a protestant & free schoolmaster

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Of the doces of Waterford aforesaid (but then turned papist) strooke the deponents said husband with his <B> habbord sayeing Ah Traytour you would faine goe to see the ould Traytour to duncanon ffoorth yor godfather (meaneing the lord Esmond) but I will stopp yor Journey & therevpon he was Comitted priosner; But soone after this deponent among the rest) being sent downe to Passadge aforesaid she there obserued one of the rebells (whose name shee knoweth not) teareing the singeing Psalmes out of this deponents Bible or Testament & shee reproueing of him for doeing soe, one Mr Butler then prese n t e tould said to this deponent I am sory (quoth he) honest woman that you are soe deluded, for there is nothing in that booke but the devills Inventions she lastly saith that it was a comon reporte among them at Waterford aforesaid and at Passadge that they had the Kinges Comission for what they did and that shortly they would rise vpp in armes in England one against another & further she deposeth not
Elizabeth [mark] Hoopers marke
Jurat coram nobis
1o ffebruary 1642
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell

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Waterford
Elizabeth Hoopers
examination
Reu 27