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Jane Grace l a the wiffe of Nicholas Grace late of Kilmore in the Countie of Armaghe yeoman sworne and examjned deposeth and saith That since the begining of this present Rebellion vizt about the xxiijth of October last The deponents husband & shee were forceibly by the Rebells deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of their meanes goodes & chattells of the value & to the their present losses a f hereafter mencioned vizt of ready ready monie amounting to ffortie powndes Cowes worth ix li. Howsholdstuff one horse and a Mare worth x li. their interest in a leas of Landes in Kilmore aforesaid now worth nothing: & before the Rebellion worth xx li. debts owing them by the dispoyled English amounting to ten powndes In all Amounting in all to ffowrscore ny and nyne Powndes ster: And further sayth that the principall parties that soe robbed and dispoyled them & that were in Rebellion were & hadd most of this deponents mony and goods <a> were Phelim ô Donnelle of loughgall late servant to Mr Waldrome & his brothers whose christen names she knows not x And sayth that the Rebells in the County of Ardmagh within 2 myles of kilmore aforesaid burned xxij English protestants in one howse: & stript killed & or murthered all or the most of the English of that Parrishe of Kilmore consisting of twoe hundreth familyes at least as she thincketh and amongst the Rest Murthered Mr Robinson Parson of that parish [ ] haveing first divers times attempted & pressed him much to goe to Masse, but he most constantly & resolutely denying: & professing bouldly the protestant Religion: was by them therefore murthered by them as aforesaid. And the Rebells [ ] haveing stript many of those other english persons: sett them in the stockes in frost & snow vntill they confessed money: & when they cold gett noe more moneys from Murthered them as aforesaid: And further sayth that the Rebells aforesaid publiquely gave out that Sir Phelim ô Neale was their <b> Lord of Ireland & asked this deponent and the other English what they did in their land: for the land of Ireland was theires & therefore they wold have the english goodes: And further saith that when this deponent & divers others fledd towards dundalke

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for saueing their liues Rachell this deponents sister & her 2 children & some others and their children were drowned by the Rebells
Signum predictæ [mark] Janæ
Jur tertio 7bris 1642
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John Sterne
Joh Watson

Armaghe
Jane Grace Jur iijo
7bris 1642
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