Deposition of Margery Sharp

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Margery Sharp Late wife of John Sharp of Kells in the County and dioces of Meath Minister & Preacher of gods sacred woord who was Cruelly Murdered at or vppon the fourth day of December 1641 by the Irish Rebbells as he was coming to Dublin for succour duly sworne sayth that at or vppon the Last of November and year of our Lord aforesayd, was she her said husband & shee were Robbed and despoyled of their goods and Chattells of the value vizt ffirst of yearly meanes fforty Pownds sterling secondly eight stackes of Corne twenty pownds sterling in Horses houshould goods and apparell well worth twenty pownds sterling towe Chists of Bookes well woorth Tenn pownds sterlinge; the sayd goods were <A> taken away by theis Rebells vizt Richard Plunkett of Kells and Gerrald Plunkett of Dowlean within a mile of Kells, and others of their complicees rebells; The value of the goods aforsayd amounts to ffourescore and Tenn pounds sterling beinge all the estate this examinant they had to to releiue hersealfe and her towe smale Children shee being with Child of the thurd.
<And further sayth> The aboue named John Sharp this deponents husband was by one Company of the Irish Rebells mett whoe soe meeting and meeting with [ ] him had wounded him in such manner that he was deprived of his Liffe onely in a blessed admitted manner whearby god was pleased to releaue hime to expresse himsealfe; And haveing; truly prayed prayed to god; and reddy in his stre i nth to dye an other company of Irish rebells Cruelly and willfully murdered him in the same place whear they found him beinge on this side of the Navan one mile in the way as he sought for refuge, to come to Dublin: whoe being thus murdered I Margery Sharp wife to the sayd John she this deponent sought to haue him buried in Christian buriall the which the then Portreeve or suffren suff e ren of the towne <B> of Navan would not admitt but sent to cause the graue to be mad in the same place wher he was murdered, And further saith that before her said

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husband was murthered he carried away for feare of the Rebells a good number of his best divinity books: with whom and divers bonds and specialtyes and writings: And saith that the souldiers of vnder the Comand of the Rebell Captaine ô Rely meeting with him and stripped of all his clothes inforced him being naked to trample and tread vpon his said books and paper in the water & to spoile them: and then the said Rebells threw them away & tossed many of them in the wynd
Signum predicte [mark] Margerie
Jur 29o Jan 1641
John Sterne
Will: Hitchcock