Deposition of Elizabeth Day

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Elizabeth the Relict of John Day late of Balliheyes parrish in the County of Cavan Clothier sworne & yeoman By her examjned vpon oath Lately taken before us deposeth That since in the begining of the present Rebellion vizt about the xxiiijth of October 1641 Her said husband (then alive) but since slaine: & shee were deprived robbed or otherwise dispojled of their meanes goodes and chattells consisting of Cowes Mares Corne in the grownd howsholdgoods Clothe et and other goods worth ffowrscore pownds sterling And were with theire 4 Children all stript of their Clothes & turned away naked in frost and snowe By the <a> Rebells Hugh Booy ô Rely of Kilduffe in the same County petty Chapman James ô Rely Donnell ô Rely and Farrell ô Rely all brothers & nere dwellers to the parrish of Ballyheys Thomas Wesnam of Carrickmore in the parrish of Balliheys aforesaid this deponents next neighbour In whose howse & in his fathers howse alsoe this deponent fownd some of her & her husbands goodes one iron pott & certeine milk vessels worth eight shillinges And there was alsoe fownd in the howse of Simon Wesnam <b> his father at Carrickmore aforesaid some more of their said goodes: vpon search for the same made in both places by warrant from Phillip ô Rely Esquire: But whoe tooke the rest of their goodes shee cannott tell Howbeit they were many in number, & robbed the rest of the protestants thereabouts
signum [mark] predicte Elizabeth
Ju xxjo Augusti 1643
Hen: Jones
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Elizabeth Day 21o Augusti
1643 Jur