Deposition of Katherin Bellew

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Katherin Bellew alias Bedlow late ofBlittock in the County of Monaghan widow sworne saith. That that on or about the xxiijth of october last she this deponent att Blittock aforesaid & dundalk was robbed and dispoiled of her goods & chattles vizt ready money and apparell & other things worth 20 li. ma rks ster ling or thereabouts and at dundalk ster: By <a> Patrick mc loghlin of in the County of Monaghan gentleman, and his brother whose christen name she Knows not & very many other Rebells whose names she is alsoe ignorant of knows not doth not knowe, And att the same tyme the Rebells aforesaid did at Blittock aforesaid robbed & dispoiled of their goods Mr Richard Cope Mr Walter Cope Mr Anthony Cope: The Lord Blany and his Lady & 7 Children: one Mris Elcock whoe being in child bed, was neuertheless taken & carryed away to prison together with the lady Blany & her 7 chuldren: & one servant maide, And there was alsoe robbed at the same tyme by the same Rebells one John Tomlinson and John Millaway & one servant maide of their goods & clothes: And saith that the said lady Blany & her children and the rest have beene ever since kept in prison at Monaghan: but this de ponent by chance escaped from t h e Rebells And vpon the wednesday after this deponent, and one Mr Branthwaite and his wife Mr Williams and his wife Mr Kelly & his wife Mr Boyle minister of the said parish and his wife Mr Montgomery: & his wife & 3 children Mr Magill another minister of & one of Sir Henry Spotsworths daughters & a servant maide two shoomakers & their wyves Ric Jackson and his wife: & one Mylesa servant to Mr Ro r Blany and his wife and all the rest of the English of that towne, being above 40 in all: haveing a passe, to goe away from Coll mc Brian the principall Rebell, there and Patrick mc Loghlin: and being guarded by 2 or 3 fryers They had not gone half a bows shott bin but were all turnd againe by the rebells & kept prisoners euer since: saveing that this deponent alone (makeing more hast then the rest) escaped away with one child of Mr Copes of a yere and a half ould, And hath heard that the Rebells have since hanged one William Kelly an English protestant

The mark of the said Katherin [mark]
Jur 5o ffebr 1641
William Aldrich
Hen: Brereton

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32 Monoghan
Katherin Bellew Jur
5o ffebr 1641
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