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Anne Lister wife of Edmund Lister of Hacketstowne in the Barony of Rathvilla and County of Catherlagh an English protestant sworne and examined saith That about the 17th and 18th dayes of November last one John mc Donnogh of Hacketstowne aforesaid came to the land by the deponents husband held in Hacketstown{e}and thence drove away Cattle of her said Husbands worth 6 li. pretending that Luke Birne of in the County of Wicklow sent for them and nor this Examinate nor her neighbours dared through the power of the Rebells to make resistance: This Examinate further deposeth that Lyshagh Byrne and Owen Birne of Raheen in the parish of Clonmore in the County aforesaid and Marcus Wickham of Talbotstowne (Brother to Peter Wickham of Talbotstowne Esquire high sherif of the County of Wicklow in whose house the said Marcus liveth) with certayne servants of the said Peter Wickhams and of the said Birnes the eighteenth day of November last robbed and dispoyled this deponent of Household goods and apparell worth 14 li., of household provision worth 8 li. 14 s. malt and Iron worth 2 li. 10 s. This deponent further saith That the said Birnes and Wickhams with theyre said Company drove and expelled this deponent (her husband being in Dublin) with foure small children from her house and abode in Hacketstowne aforesaid, and dispossessed her of the benefit of her Garden fe{w}ell and hay worth 10 li. wherby alsoe her said Husband lost the benefit of his his house and land and certayne Cowes which he was to hold for certayne yeares yet to come worth 20 li. To her said Husbands losse in all (with 3 li. lost due by such as are in rebellion) <64 li. 4 s.> the summe of 64 li. 4 s.
[The following section has been over written. The superimposed text, which is unreadable, has largely obliterated the original. It is omitted from the copy of the deposition, MS 812, fol. 33r-v] This Examinate further deposeth that [being] [ ] with the wife of William [Frear] her neighbour robbed alsoe by the Rebells [at] [Ha ] this deponent which the aforesaid Marcus Wickham dispoyled her this deponent of [ ] the said Jane [ ] saith [ ] Peter Wickham [gent] to the said [ ] [ ] [ ] house [where ] this Examinate [ ] the [ ] [ ] [ ] livd that the said Peter Wickham (according as by the severall relations of credible persons she had [ ] [ ] [ ] and [ ] [ ] of divers English protestants he [dispoyled] [ ]
This deponent further saith that Moriertagh mc awey of Hacketstowne aforesaid now in rebellion, comeing ( as he reported) from the Rebells Campe at Carnow under the Command of Luke Birne aforesaid tould this deponent that he with the rest of his Company had charge given them from the said Luke to make what spoyle they could of the English, for which he pretended to them that he had directions from the Queen [ ] affirming with all that the Kings Maiesties of England would send the English noe reliefe and that the Irish would drive all the English to Dublin and with draw the water from the Citty and soe famish them there, or drive them into the seas and further this deponent [ ] [ ] sayth that [hand superimposed on text] she saw Timothy pate and his wife of [ ] formerly an English protestant after he was robbed goe to masse in Hacketstowne as alsoe Roger Conway and his wife of the said Hacketstowne did, and alsoe credibly heard that Mr
Jurat coram nobis Febr: 15to 1641
Greaves and his wife of fayre wood parke before this rebellion an English protestant in the County of wicklow, and that Christopher Acton of Mullins in the county of wic wicklow and his wife and Thomas Frank and his wife of Tombeigh in the County of catherlagh English Protestants [ ] and Edmund o Donnell Henry Martin, Murtagh mc awey, Brian o curren, charles Macguire William morris John o Cullen and Cahir Birne of Hacketstowne aforesaid before this rebellion English Irish protestants doe now goe to masse the same [ relapst ] turning to masse this deponent hath, alsoe heard concerning Mrs palmer of Carnow parke and John rowles of [the] Ladystowne in the County of Wicklow [ ] formerly English Protestants
Anne [mark] Lister her marke
Jurat Febr: 16ti 1641 coram nobis
Joh Watson William Aldrich
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