Deposition of Mary Ward

fol. 80r

370

Mary Ward wife to zacarie Ward provost of Belturbet the Corpacion of Belturbatt in the parish of Anna Barrony of Loughty and County of Cavan gent nowe gone downe to drogheda in his maiesties service as a souldier shee being of the Age of thirty one yeares or thereabouts and duely sworne deposeth that her said husband was seized in ffee simple farme to him & his heires for ever of two houses Mansion houses, with the Backsides therevnto belonginge & other houses & Edifices thereon Erected & built scituate & being within the said Corpacion worth worth one hundreth & twenty pounds, And possessessed of severall leases (vizt one lease of halfe a pottle of land caled durneglash for thirteene yeares or thereabouts att & vnder the Annuall or yearely rent of ffifteene shilings to the pounds to Sir Stephen Butler knight his heires or Assises, One lease of a Mansion house Garden Orchard & a parcell of land of twelue Irish Acres neare adioyning to the Churchyard att Belturbatt aforesaid to bee att & vnder the Anuall or yearely rent of tenn shilings to be paid to the said Stephen his heires or Assises for and dureing the naturall lives of Nicholas Swansion the yonger, Mary Swanison his sister and Honora Swanison, the and for [ ] twenty one yeares after the death of the longest lives of them, One lease of two Burgs Acres neare vnto the Comon of Belturbatt aforesaid for Eight yeares worth five pounds per Annum vltra repris And one other lease of One Burgs Acre adioyning to the heigh way neare to the water fflash in the way from Belturbatt aforesaid to the Comon for tenn yeares att and vnder the Anuall or yearely Rent of fforty shilings All the said leases being well worth One hundreth and twenty pounds, In Cattle worth twenty Nyne pounds, in household goods provition within the house, Iron & tooles in the shopp & other goods in the house, worth ffowerscore pounds in debts thirty pounds in ready monyes five pounds in all Amounting to the sume of three hundreth ffowerscore & ffower pounds, And alsoe and one silver Mare belonging to the Provost of the said Corpacion of all which said lands leases & writeings touchinge & concerning the same, Cattle, goods, debts & Monyes [ ] his deponents said husband was Robed and dispoyled att Belturbatt aforesaid on or about the second day of November last aboute twelue a Clock in the day tyme

fol. 80v

371

<a> By the meanes of Phillip mc Hugh mc Shane ô Rely one of the knights of the Shire for the said County Owen Brady of the parish of Anna aforesaid gent And other Irish persons that did Rise vpp in Armes with the said Phillip ô Rely & of his Company And further this deponent deposeth that the next day followeinge this deponents said husband her selfe & two of her Children were all stript out of their Cloathes [att] neare vnto Cavan in the said County by some of the said Phillip o Rely his Company, there names this deponent knoweth not, And further shee this deponent deposeth that shee did see one yonge man lye dead in the way betwixt Youghall & Cavan & Youghall with she beleeveth to be an Englishman & was Murthered by t h e said some of the said Rebells for that shee did see the said Rebells beate & wound diverse English protestants in the said way
The [mark] marke of
Mary Ward
Jurat 10th of January 1641
coram nobis
Joh Watson
Will: Hitchcock