Deposition of Barbary Morton

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xxxo decembris 1641
Barbary Morton wife to Richard Morton of Gubb in the parish of Drummully Barrony of Coole & County of ffermanagh nowe a souldier in his majesties service att drogheda yeoman shee being an English protestant, Aged twenty seaven year{es} or thereabouts being duely sworne deposeth that her husban{d} was Robed and lost one lease of the tate of land caled Gubb parte of the Mannor of Castle Brinsley alias Castlecoole being for the tearme of ffowerscore and Eleaven yeares from Mayday last att & vnder the Annuall or yearely Rent of twenty fower shilings, worth two hundreth & ffifty pounds
in cattle worth ffower score pounds
In Corne worth tenn pounds
In hay worth tenn pounds
In household goods, provition, husbandy geare & other goods worth fifty pou pounds in all amounting to ffower hundreth pounds By the meanes of Captaine Rory Magwire of Hassett towne in the Barrony of lurge and County aforesaid And other Irish men that tooke vpp Armes & did Rise in Rebellion with him on or about the fower three & twentieth day of October last in the night tyme And that shee her husband & Children geting a Cott passed to Belturbatt by water the said night And that shee & her husband the 27th of the same month was stript & Robed of there Cloathes in the County of Cavan by some Irish Rebells of the Company of Phillip mc hugh mc Shane ô Relye And further deposeth that shee hath heard of a great company of English protestant (that lived in good Mannor within the parish of Drummully) that was Murthered & Slaine by the Company of the said Captaine Relye to the Number of fforty or thereabouts, And that shee verily beleeveth that there is aboue One hundreth of the said parishioners (that lived in good manner within the said parish) since they were banished & driven from there habitacions by the said Rebells by the meanes of there Cruelty) perished and dead, And her reason is because shee hath knowne them to dye in such abundance dayly that shee thinks there cannot but be more dead shee knowing most of them well, they being her neighbors & parishioners vizt [ ] William Gourden William Perkins, William windsor, Anne Buttevant Jeffrey Buttevant William Benington George ward Richard West & diuerse others
Barbara marke Mortons
[mark]
Jan. 3. 1641.
Deposed before vs
William Aldrich
Hen: Jones
she purposeth to go into England with her 3 children.

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