Deposition of Elizabeth Peirce

fol. 11r

1330
Elizabeth the wiffe of Michaell Peirce late of the Newrie gen dec in the County of downe sworne & examined saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof her said husband and she were deprived robbed or otherwise dispojled of their meanes goodes & chattells of their meanes goodes & chattells worth one hundreth and Nynetie Poundes & of deedes evidences and writinges manifesting their estate to landes Landes & to rentes in England worth 60 li. per annum: The which she feareth wilbe Lost from her & her children for want of the said deedes evidences & writeinges And there was due to her husband at the death & yet is by his Maiesty for his wages in the Custome house xxx li. : And saith that her said husband about the xvth of December last dyed of a sicknes which she thincketh was procured by greefe & occasion of the Rebellion: & by a blow he had from a Scott, that since the Scottes recouered the Newry hindered him in the prosecucion of his place there of a waiter of the Custome howse the Scotts there suffering no customs to bee paid: But the name of that Scott which soe hurt her husband she knoweth not: And saith that the names of those that soe robbed and dispoyled them she knoweth not but is assured it was by the tenantes and souldjers of Sir Con mc Gennis knight which Sir Con was the first Rebell that tooke the Newry and kept itt tenn weekes & in that tyme he suffered those Rebells of the name of the Russells his s & the Magennisss his souldiers to kill Mr Tudge minister of the Newry and Chaplaine to Sir Arthur Tirringham, nere Newcastle Lieutennt Trevor & his wiffe & children one Mr Weston: & others to the value number of 24 protestantes more the deponentes neighbors, And then at leng as the Rebells themselues Confessed & as this deponent did partly know by s for shee saw their clothes brought back and worne after they were putt to death & the Rebells tould her the cawse why the said Mr Tudge was putt to death was becawse he was a protestant minister & becawse some of the papist preistes were putt to death in England: Howbeit this deponent hath beene tould and heard it comonly reported by the Rebells & o That the said Sir Con Magennis on his death [ ] bedd was soe much affrighted with the apprehension and conceipt that the said Mr Tudge soe slaine was still in his presence that he left djrections that noe more protestantes from that time shold bee slaine but what should be killed in Battajle And after his death the bod said Sir Conn Ma{gennis} his brother would { } {observed?} his direccion: But { }