Deposition of Elizabeth Baskerville

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Elizabeth the wiffe of John Baskervile late of the Burridge in the queens Countie weaver sworne and examined saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion & vizt about Christmas 1641 this deponents husband and shee carried for feare of the Rebells & Rebellion carried into the Castle of Burridge their howsehold stuff & other goods & chattells worth x li. or thereabouts and did themselues alsoe at that tyme fly vnto the said Castle for saffetie of their Liues. Where they contynued for 4 months or thereabouts & then her said husband (amongst others) sallying out of the said Castle was extreamely wounded in 27 places on his ryde right side & hadd all his Left hand almost cutt of: And of those wounds being extreame mortall he died, And after his death vntill <x> about a fortnight be fore Michaelmas last This deponent & one child stayd in the said Castle (which was beleaguered for a long time) by fflorence ffitzpatrick <A> of Casteltowne in the same County a great Comander of Rebells and Andreas ffitzpatrick his brother kinsman [ & ] John ô Deigin of or nere Miltowne in the same County a n a Captain of Rebells & the Lord of Upper Ossery and their Rebellious souldjers Complices and confederats whose names she cannott remember During which tyme Both shee & her child & all the rest that fled to the said Castle for saffety endured much misery & were exposed to such want of victualls That they were inforced for their livelihood to eate greene weeds, Catts doggs the intrailes and bloud of horses with their flesh Beast hydes, & such Like things <b> And further saith that shee the wiffe of one William Mattocks of Mountrath in the queens County tould this deponent that shee <B> was present when the wiffe of fflorence ffitzpatricke fownd much fault with her husbands souldjers becawse they did not bring a long with them to her the grease and fatt of one Mris Nicholson for makeing her Candles withall, which Mris Nicholson they had slaine becawse she was an English protestant, & for her goodes: And saith that whenas shee & the rest of the protestants in the said Castle had endured all the misery aforesaid & beleaguereing aforesaid They hadd at
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Length quarter to come away But there the deponent Lost the goodes of the value aforesaid
Signum predicte Elizabeth Baskervile
Jur 26o Aprilis 1643
Randall Adams
Hen: Brereton
Joh Watson

Queens Countie
Elisabeth Baskervile April 26 1643
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