Deposition of Ann Dudd
- Reference: MS 831, fols 030r-030v
- County: Leitrim
- Date: 24/2/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping
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Ann Dudd Late of the parish of Ballynamore in the County of Leytrim sworne & examined deposeth That since t he present Rebellion began vizt about the tenth day of November Last shee and her Late husband Richard Dudd were robbed and dispoiled of theire goods & chattells in the said County to the values following vizt in Cowes worth twenty fower pounds, in household=stuffe & other goods & corne fower and twenty po und s worth fiftie pounds, of theire Lease of Land worth forty shillings amounting in all to Threescore and sixteene ffiftie pounds <A> pounds ster by the hands or meanes of one mcGowran & many other rebells in those parts whose names this Deponent knoweth not And the Deponent further deposeth That as shee and her husband were comeing vpp towards Dublin there mett him another company of barbarous villaines of the Irish, and hanged her said husband at a place neare Dawlins bridge in the County of Cavan where one Richard Carrington a protestant suffered the same death, And the deponent further saith that there came in one Company with her thirty and seaven poore stripped English people, but of all the said nomber there came noe more but seave eight of them to Dublin and all the rest (as shee is assured) were either starved killed drowned or hanged by the rebells in the way.
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Jur 24o ffebr 1641 coram nobis
Will: Hitchcock
Roger Puttocke
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