Deposition of Elizabeth Dewsberry

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Elizabeth Dewsberry of Drumrallagh in the parish of Drummully halfe Barrony of Coole & County of ffermanagh wife to Thomas Dewsberry of the same webster nowe a souldier gone to [ ] Drogheda vnder the commaund of Captaine Roger Moynes (shee being of the Age of fforty five yeares or thereabouts & duely sworne deposeth that her said husband was Robed & dispoyled of all his goods <I> of the severall vallues followeing the five & twentieth day of October last in the forenoone about tenn of the Clocke (vizt) in Corne worth tenn pounds, in Cattle worth ffifty p pounds, in hay worth thiry shilings in household goods, provition for the house & other goods worth thirty pounds in monyes one & twenty pounds in all Amounting to the some of One hundreth & twelve pounds tenn shilings By <a> Captaine Rory Magwire of hassett towne in the Barrony of Lurge & County of ffermanagh Con: McPhillip of the ffewgh in the same county & Teige McDermott of the same husbandman and Phelim McMartin <of the same husbandman Donoghoe McWyre of Dromrally in the same county husbandman & one John Miagh of the same husbandman> and other Irish rebells in ther Company to the Number of six hundreth or thereabouts And further deposeth that shee heard some of the said Rebells say that for what they did they had the kings commission for it, and that our Religion came vpe but vpp in king henrye the Eights dayes & nowe wee might see what came on it, And further one Tirla Magwire Thomas McTirla Magwire of Lissagarrie in the Barrony of Clankelly & County aforesaid gent one of the said Captaine Rorye Magwire his company did say that before the next day att noone the English protestants shold see what shold become of them, And further deposeth that her said husband herselfe & seaven Children were stript of all ther wearing apparell the said day in the Church yard att Newtowne aforesaid & left naked <A> And further saith that the Rebells aforesaid or some of them att or about the same tyme did murther one Mr Chrisofer Cots gent and his sonn Christofer one Mr Champion, Tho Serieant, Mr. John Maynes, Edward Powlter Christopher Bustop & Christofer his sonn: Geo: Dickinson Thomas Prestley and one Mr. Ironmonger this deponents neighbours of Drumrallagh aforesaid, and wounded Mris Elizabeth Cots and Katherin Dicconson: And saith that she this deponent and her husband 7 Children were stript of the all their cattle clothes 2 of which children are since dead for want of fyer and necessarys are as she conceveth & other twoe of them ly in danger of death

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Jur 7° Jan: 1641 cora nobis

John Sterne
Roger Puttocke

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Eliz Dewsberry: Com ffermanagh
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