Deposition of Mary Markham & Walter Slye

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Mary the relict of Nathaniell Markham late of the Citte of Dublin Vintner deceased & Walter Slye of the same Citty Vintner sworne and examined depose & say That the said Nathaniell Markham (whoe in the begining of the Rebellion was alive) tooke vpp Armes against the Rebells and served as a trooper vnder the Comand of the right honourable the Erle of Leicester & att the Battaile of Kilrushe, he was greivously wounded yet afterwardes recouering he went out vpon a partie towardes Corduffe in the County of Dublin, Where hee and twoe of his servants & about 26 others were miserably slaine by an Ambushe of Rebells, & [ ] there he lost not only 4 horses but his Armes apparell money & other thinges to the value of 40 li. at least, & att that tyme all his entertainment money Amounting to 30 li. or therabouts was owing vnto him And further theis deponents say That hee the said Nathaniell in his liftyme, and she the deponent Mary since his death by occasion of the said Rebellion have bin deprived & dispoiled or otherwise dampnified by the losse of their goods Chattells & meanes, Consisting of leases howshold goodes money debts & other his goodes & chattells & divers meanes the summe of one thowsand Powndes at the least, And this deponent Mary since her said husbandes death hath bin at extraordinary Charges in manteyning lodging keepeing & lending money to [ so ] Comanders & other souldiers of the kings Army: And hath had her dwelling howse & such goodes as she hath left or the most part thereof taken vpp wasted & vsed by them soe as she cannott Comand that little which she hath left the same, And att this very instant whenas meere necessity required her to sell some part thereof: One Captain Cary
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who hath possessed himself of her dwelling howse & most of her goods, would not nor will permitt her to sell or part with any part of the same: Whereby shee that formerly lived in plenty is now become destitute of meanes of subsistence Soe as she is neither able to keepe herself nor her daughter Isabell Clavell the relict of John Clavell Esquire, and her fatherles Child, whoe theis vnfortunate tymes have alsoe quite stript of all their fortunes & means
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Wa: Slaye
Jur xxvjo Maij 1646
Hen: Clogher
Will: Aldrich

{Dublin}
Mary Markham 26
May 1646
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The Countie of Downe