Deposition of Elizabeth and Edward Dashwoode

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Elizabeth Dashwoode late of Ardfinnen in the parish of Tullyharta in the barony of Essa and Offa and within the County of Tipperary widdowe (a brittish protestant) duely sworne and examined before vs vpon oath by vertue of a Comission to vs directed (beareing date &c) concerneing the losses robberies and spoiles since this rebellion comitted vpon the Brittish and protestants within the Province of Munster &c deposeth and saith That vpon the 25th day of March 1641 or therabouts he lost was robbed and forceably dispoiled of hiser goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeing vizt worth 65 li. 4 s.
Of cowes heiffers horses sheepe and swine to the value of fiue and Twenty pounds foure shillinges. Of houshouldstuffe to the value of ten pounds. Of armes namely a sword one pettronell and a sword a fowling peece woorth forty shillinges Of hay in stack and corne in the house to the valu e of eight and Twenty pounds. The Totall of her losses amounts to threescore & fiue pounds foure shilinges. The deponent being further examined deposeth. That aboute the 6th day of december 1641 the vndernamed persons English and protestants namely Thomas Groves of the same gentleman his wife children & family Charles Prince of Tubbrid in the said County clerk ffrances Prince of Tubbrid aforesaid gentleman his children & family Symon Lightfoote of the same clerk his wife & family Nicholas Serle of BallyRoch in the said County shepheard his wife and family Henry lane of the same shepheard his wife and children besides diuers other persons to the number of forty persons men women and children the said parties haueing gott into the said Castle of Ballyroch aforesaid were imediatly

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besiedged by Thomas Butler of Ardfinny in the said County gentleman Tibbott Butler of R[uoch-] <B> laghty in the said County Esquire, and the lo d lord of Cahir & also by James Butler brother son to the late said lord of Cahir John Butler of Closhbridy in the said County Esquire Thomas Lougan of lisnevath in the said County gentleman <Eustice > Robert Prendergast of Newcastle in the said County Esquire James Butler of Ruskoe in the said County gentleman Therlagh mc Donnell of Ballygrenan in the said County gentleman [ ] Roch [ ] John of Kilcoman=br{ } in the said County doctor of Phisick John og Butler son to Butler of Cloghbridy aforesaid all which p arties with a company of a hundred armed men & sometimes two hundred from time to time Continued siedge to the same till the 16th of Aprill followeing or thereabouts dureing which time the said parties & their confederats comitted and perpetrated diuers acts of hostility & rebellion against the said English & especially the deponent sawe and obserued the said parties to buyld sheds and cabins roundaboute the said Castle=Bawne & then broke the said Bawne and with a sowe came vnder the said Castlewalls of purpose to make a breach vpon the said Castle and there to destroy the said parties besiedged if the said sowe had not beene then seasonably broken likewise the said parties shot one William Chayny a boy of Twelue yeeres of adge sent out to the garden of BallyRoch aforesaid to gather hearbes aboute the time aboue first mencioned. This deponent likewise sawe & obserued the said parties & their followers sometimes come & rayle against the besiedged close by the Castle calling them Traytors & rebells & that they the beseegers held with the Kinge but the besiedged were all against his Maiesty, & they had directions

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[John ] from his Maiesty to banish the English & protestants out of the Kingdome which they would doe by hunting them from place to place till they make them run into the sea or words to that effect
This deponent being lastly examined saith. That aboute Easter weeck last the castle of BallyRoch aforesaid being betrayed by the aboue named James Butler whoe in a perfidious & periuring maner tooke a book out of his pockett & by the contents therof <C> sworne that if all the men in the said Castle should come foorth to parly with him he would secure them to returne againe, & being thervpon perswaded, came out of the said Castle, Imediatly the said Butler notwithstanding his said oath seized vpon them & carryed them prisoners to Cahir in the said County whereby the said Castle was lost together with this deponents goods & the other parties goods aboue named; as alsoe by the meanes the deponents husband William Dashwood was murthered, whoe being sent afterwards to Cashell to be arraigned before their comon Councell there, for killing in his owne defence dureing the said siedge thabouenamed John og Butler & being there quitted, coming back to be sent to the English garrisson of Mitchelstowne in the County of Cork as ransom for another there in restaint vpon the eighteenth of July last was assaulted & sett vpon betweene Moclerstowne and Mitchelstowne Clonmell by Edward Butler sonn & heire to John Butler of Cloghbridy aforesaid whoe then & there pittifully murthered the said Dashwood, for manifestacion of the truth thereof whereof the deponent produced before vs a letter vnder the hand and seale of Henry White of Clonmell Burges

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whoe certifieth the murthereing of the said Dashwood to which letter for more certainty this deponent referreth her sellf. Edward Dashwood late of <D> Ardfynen aforesaid yeoman this day was produced before vs as a witnes & being duely examined & sworne vpon the holy Evangelist deposeth that the contents of this bill in all particulars of thaboue recited premisses are true (onely the murthering of the said Dashwood excepted he knowes not but for the more certainty thereof he refferreth himselfe to the said letter & to the comon & credible informacion of others, his cause of knowledge is, concerneing the estate of thother deponent that he liued in time of peace at Ardfinen aforesaid & was one of the besiedged in the said Castle wherby He came to knowe the premisses to be true (in maner as by the thother deponent they are already declared & further he deposeth not
Elizab: [mark] Dashwoords mark.
Edward [mark] Dashwoords mark
Jurat coram nobis
17o Martij 1642
Phil: Bisse
Ric. williamson

The examination of
Elizabeth Dashwoods
Tipperary

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