Deposition of Judith Phillipps

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Judith Phillipps late wife of Waterford in the County of the Cittie of Waterford (a brittisth protestant) for and in the behalf of John Phill {ipps} nowe a souldier in his Maiesties army (this deponents wife husband) being sworne &examined by vert u e of &c she deposeth & saith That on or aboute shrouetide last & since the begining of this presente rebellion in Irelan{d} the said John Phillipps was robbed of his goods & Chattles to the seuerall values foll value of 40 li.
Of houshould goods & prouision in the house at Waterford aforesaid to the v alue of twenty pounds Of linnen wool l en weareing apparell & ready mony to the value of twenty pounds The totall o f his the said John Phillipps losses amounts to forty pounds This deponent saith that at the aforesaid time the Citizens of Waterford did appointe the Constables of euery parish in the said Cittie to fetch & bringe with them out of their houses all the English protestants (men women & children in the said Cittie) & there vpon had some of them Comitted in the Cittie hall & the rest in three seuerall other places within the said {Cit}tie & soe kepte them in the nature of prisoners for foure dayes together & seized vpon all their goods And afterward they Comanded that all the women & children should be lead away guarded with halbords & pikes through the said Cittie & to be turned out of the gates towards passadge which was accordingly don & one Captaine Strong (gouernor of the passadge as they Tearme him) comanded to put the said women & children in foure seuerall houses in the said passadge The said deponent further saith that the said Captaine Strong & his company in a most cruell manner kepte this deponent & the rest prisoners (being stripped by him the rebells in the Countie that came out of the County of wexford his company & the people of wexford to the number of three hundred & fiftie men women & children English and protestants or therabouts alloweing them but a farthings woorth of bread a third day soe that through his cruell vsadge of them there perished or died being (most of them being starued to death) aboute the number {of} eight & fortie persons yonge & ould (as shee verily beleeues) their names she ca{not} remember (excepte two) the widdowe Joice & the widdowe Juan middw{ins?} This examinat likewise saith That the said Captaine Stronge & his co{m}pany would not suffer the Corps of the parties soe dead to haue a Christian buriall but threwe their dead Corpes vpon the sands { } shee alsoe saith that she this deponent at passadge aforesaid once presu{aded } to come out of the house where she was kepte prisoner to buy some {bread} for her poore children (almost famished to death) from the Irish in {passadge} aforesaid haueing a peece of siluer in her hand to buy the said bread {one of} the said Capteine Strongs men meetinge with this examinat {his name} she knoweth not striueing to gett the said mony out of her {hand}

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with the butt end of his peece strooke this deponents child Juan Phillipps of the adge of three yeeres of adg then in this examinats armes & strooke out her braines & afterwards fell a beateing of this deponent most miserably (she being in the later end of her time) & & gaue her a matter if eleaven wounds with his skine wher vpon she imediatly miscaried of a man child This examinat further saith that John lowther of the parish of Christchurch within the said Cittie of Waterford shoomaker formerly an English protestant but since this rebellion turned papist himself and to [prosper] with his wife & being in conference with this examinat aboute the time aforesaid this deponent demanded the said Lowther whether he heard any newes out of England or whether any forces were comeing out of England yea or noe? he answered & said (with a greate oath) doe you expecte (quoth he) any ayde out of England & they being vpp there one against another & the Kinge haueing lost his Crowne where vpon this examinat reprehended him & bad him not to say soe, he replyed & said he lost his Crowne by losseing Ireland, for if you liue saith he (& auerring the same with oathes & wounds) a hundred yeeres you shall see Ireland neuer recouered againe by the English & further lastly she canot deposeth that shee was present when Lieutenant Trevisor & fourteene men & nyne women English & protestants in company <Jurat> with with him (whose names she knoweth not) aboute Easter last were killed & murthered by the rebells at Dungulf neere Tinterne in the County of Wexford but the rebells names shee knoweth not
Judith [mark] Phillipps marke
Jurat coram nobis
27o Junij 1642
Tho: Badnedge
Phil: Bisse

See this deposition
before p.1517

fol. 233r

1555

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1556
Waterford
The examination of
Judith Phillipps
11
Reu
27