Deposition of Elizabeth Lawe

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Elizabeth Lawe widow the relict of John Lawe late of the Mawes in the County of Kildare gentleman now dec sworne and examjned vpon sayth That shee hath herd redd & considered of thexaminacion of the said John Lawe her husband formerly taken vpon this Comission And sayth and averreth the same to be true in all thinges to the best of her knowledge. And further sayth that since the takeing of that examinacion she & her husband wase by the Rebells deprived of obbed or otherwise & dispoyled of her said husband & John Lawe her sonn whoe were about the Middle of June last most barbarously slaughtered & burned to death with one Mr ffrere & some others in the Castle of Mynowth in the said County of Kildare, at the tyme when the Rebells suddenly surprised the same: And that the English army <the howses> since the takeing of her said husbands examinacion burned about 20 of her & her husbands howses in Rathcoole out of which & the grounds belonging to them her said husband before the Rebellion received 40 li. at least clere yerely Rent above the rent hee paid to the landlord thereof which arm howses the English army burned that with the rest of the towne of Rathcoole purpossly that the Rebells should not be harboured there, And conceiveth the grounds belonging to those howses to be nothing worth above their Rent becawse of burning of the [ ] howses thereof & of the generall detriment occasiond by the Rebellion And that the Rebells alsoe haue since her husbands said examinacion burnd one faire dwelling howse a malthowse killne & stable & 2 English built howses or tenements which her husband hadd in lease within the towne of Mawes in the County of Kildare aforesaid
signum predicte [mark] Elizabeth Lawe
Jur 25o Januarij 1642
Joh Watson: Randall: Adams:
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Kildare
Elizabeth Lawe Jur 25o
Januarij 1642
Intw Cert fact