Deposition of Andrew Mainwaring

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Andrew Mainwaring gentleman Lately Ensigne to Captaine Edward Aldridge in the late expedition towards Tredarth sworne and examined sayth
That in the same late expedition vizt vpon the or about the xxixth day of November 1641 Hee this deponent was amongst many other his Maiesties souldiers, nere Smithstowne in the County of Meath cruelly wounded bruised and hurt by the Rebells the enemys in the Martch towards the towne of Tredarth aforesaid Insoemuch that after this deponente [ ] had five wownds in his right arme fowre in his right syde & brest, one in his right hipp one his Left thigh, and another in his left knee, which last wownd in his Knee hath as he is much affrayd quite lamed him. And this deponent hadd & alsoe twoe wounds and many bruises in his head: soe as hee fell downe & fainted with effusion of bloud, and in that distresse and extasy this deponent by the same Rebells was is then and there robbed & stript of all his clothes mony & necessaries worth tenn Powndes But after that this deponent had Layn stripped on the grownd divers howres he with much difficultie & in weaknes recovered his memory & gott vpp and faintly that night came to the lord of Gormanstons howse: from whence he was sent away for Dublin in a Carr and strawe, where he hath Layen in great paine exposed to want, And this deponent sayth that as he was comeing to Dublin on the Carr certeine Rebells horsmen whose names he Knows not stabbed into the strawe vpon the Carr to try if they could fynd any one there, Whereby they gave him twoe stabbs and wounds more in his said right arme: yet the this deponent being covred over with strawe and the Rebells therefore not seeing him nor perceiving he was there went
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away & left him there, And this deponent further sayth that in the said skirmish and defeate the said Captaine Aldrich and divers others that stood stoutly in fight against the Rebells were slayne & many extreamly wounded And this deponent alsoe further saith that before the said expedition and skirmishe vizt the xxiijth day of October Last this deponent, and his wiffe at Newtown in the Countie of ffermanagh were by the rebells there forceibly robbed and dispoyled and stripped of all their apparell worth xxx li. at the least And this deponent by the death robbery & dispoyleing of one Christopher <130 li.> Cotes gentleman, whoe was murthered by the rebells is dispoyled & robbed of & hath lost C li. his wyves portion promissed to be given him in marriage by him the said Christopher Cotes: And further saith that all the Rebells that this deponent Knoweth of within that soe robbed him at Newtowne or the said <B> Christofer Cotes were Mc Peirce Mcill Coskaloe in the parrish of Newtowne aforesaid yeoman and three of his sonns whose christen names he Knows not, and Tho Allhoyle his son in lawe Shane Mc Maghone of Mc Guires towne in the said County of ffermanagh gent and divers other rebells of their company: Whose names he cannot expresse
Andrew Maynwaringe
Jur 15o ffebr 1641
Roger Puttocke
Joh Watson:
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