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Magdelene Redman Late of Dowris in the Kinges County widow the relict of Thomas Redman whoe was one of the souldjers that was slaine with Capten Smith with by the Rebells; sworne & examjned deposeth, and saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion vizt on or about the xxvjth day of December 1641 when her husband was slaine she this deponent: was deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of her goods & chattells consisting of Tanned leather, Bark greene Leather, Corne & Cattle a horse houshold goodes provition wool l monie proffits of gardeine & improvements & Tanners keeves all worth one hundreth & fowreteene pownds tenn shillinges iiij d. By the Rebells <A> Cosny Malloy gent Art Molloy & Shane ô ffarrell gent & their Complicees souldjers and assistants whose names shee cannott expresse Howbeit shee saith that shee is assured that all th or the most of the Cuntry thereabouts were and are in open <A> action of Rebellion And saith That shee this deponent and divers other protestants her neighbours & amongst the rest twenty twoe widowes after they were all robbed fledd for safety to the Burr were alsoe stript, starke naked & then they couering themselues in a howse, with strawe the Rebells then and there burned and lighted strawe with fyer & threw amongst them of purposse to burne them wherin they hadd beene burned or smothered. But that some of the Rebells more pittifull then the rest: comanded those cruell Rebells to forbeare: soe as they escaped yet the R Cruell Rebells kept & drive them there naked in the wyld woods from Tewsday till Saturday: soe as in frost & snow the snow some unmelted long lay upon some of their skins and some of their children died in their armes And whenas the deponent & the rest endeavoured to haue gone away for refuge to the Burr the cruell Rebells turned them againe saying they should goe towards Dublin And when they attempted to goe towards Dublin they hindred them againe: & sayd they should goe to the Burr: & soe tossed them too and fro yet at length those such of those poore stripped people as dyed not before they went away out of the hands of the Rebells escapeding to the Burr: Where they were harboured & releeved by one Mr William Parsons Esquire: And yet there dyed att the Burr of those stript persons about ffortie of men <A> {w}omen and Children: And this deponent and those other stript people that
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survived Live ing lived miserably at the Burr aforesaid vntill they with the rest hadd quarter to come from thence to Dublin
Signum predictæ Magdalenæ
Jur vijo Martij 1642
Joh Watson
Will: Aldrich