Deposition of Margarett Blower

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Margarett Blower (wife to Randall Blower of Newtowne alias Castlecoole in the parish of Drummully halfe Barrony of Coole and in the County of ffermanagh yeoman nowe souldier in his Maiesties service att Drogheda shee being (An English Protestant) Aged thirty five yeares or thereabouts being And duely sworne deposeth that her said husband was Robed and lost in leases of a house Backside, certaine cowes & lande at Newtowne aforesaid worth twenty pounds in Cattle worth twenty Nyne pounds tenn shilings, in hay worth five pounds in household goods, provition for the house & other goods worth fforty pounds in all amounting to the some ffowerscore & ffowerteene pounds tenn <a> shilings By Captaine Rory Magwire of hassett towne in the Barrony of Lurge & County of ffermanagh aforesaid and other Irish Rebells in his Company assembled to the Number of ffower hundreth or thereabouts the five & twentieth day of October last about tenn of the Clock in the forenoone, And that shee & her husband was stript & there weareing apparell taken from them by some of the Company of the said Captaine Rory there names this deponent knoweth not, wishing them to be gone And that her two two of her Children were was stript & had there Cloathes taken from them in the County of Cavan the Eight & twentieth day of October aforesaid in the day tyme about tenne twelve of the Clock neare vnto the Bull, And since this deponent hath had two of her Children dead within this Citty by reasons of there said stripping and other the bad & vnmercifull vseage of the said Rebells, her reason is for that they have ever since there said striping beene sick till they dyed

Mar: Blower mark [mark]

Deposed January 15th 1641
Roger Puttocke
Will: Hitchcock

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Margret Blower Com: ffermanagh
Jur 15° Jan: 1641
Intw Hand
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