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Deposition of Mary Daniell

  • Reference:  MS 811, fols 135r-136v
  • County: Wicklow
  • Date: 20/2/1643
  • Type: Dublin Original
  • Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Succour, Words
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    • fol. 135r


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    Mary the Relict of John Daniell late of Cronerow in the County of Wickloe yeoman sworne & examined saith That since the begining of the presente Rebellion vizt about Alhallontide last This deponentes said husband (then alive) & she were at Cronrow aforesaid forceibly in the night time deprived robbed & dispoyled of their meanes goodes and Chattells Consisting of Corne hay Cattle horses sheepe hogges howsehold stuffe provition & other thinges being all of the value of CC li. ster at the least By divers Rebells that came thither vizt by Teige Birne of Kilfeader in the same County gent Richard Birne his brother Edmund Birne of Ballimacksimon in the same County gent & by report of her neighbors <A> by many of the septs of the ô Doyles; & by Patrick Cullen of Ballimorfroe in the same County an Idle wanderer Morgan Cullen late dwelling nere the Newrogh water, another Idle wanderer and divers others of the County of Wickloe whose names she cannott name expresse and some of the same Rebells most barbarously run her husband through the breast with a skeane & then gave him a wound in his shoulder & cutt of his arme soe that they then and there murthered him And the Rebells gave this deponent then a a wound (of 5 inches long) in her head & brooke 2 of her Ribbs & then carried her this deponent soe wounded & hurt to prison and kept her in restraint in seuerall places amongst them in woodes & mountaines languishing of her hurtes & liveing in very great want & misery amongst them vntill a fortnight after Easter last (her children being left stript & forced to begg all that time) But at length this deponent by the consent and assistance of a poore woman was brought round about over the Mountaines Mores & hl hills & walking in the night & hydeing themselues in the day did in within 3 or 4 dayes & nightes escape away & came to dublin nere her time to be deliuered of the child where with her husband left her when he was murthered And at length the by godes great mercy & assistance theldest of her children brought the rest of her Children

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    (they being seven in all) f along the high way to dublin not None stopping them; which happened (as she thincketh) becawse they were naked & begged by the way: & now she & they liue by the Charity of good people: And this deponent further saith <A> That one of the name of the ô Doyles was killed by one of his Cozen Germaines: becawse he would not robb & goe along with them & joyne with them in their Cruelties And this deponent whilest she was soe in restraint with the Rebells saw them bring in great store of Clothes cattle horses sheepe howshold goodes & other things that they hadd taken from the English protestantes which they shared & devided amongst them: And it was comonly reported and given out by and amongst the Rebells That they were the queens souldjers & those warrs of theirs were the Queens Warrs saying further that the Queene would send them amunition & then they would surprise dublin: and there leave never a mothers sonn alive And that some of them wold haue Saint Patricks Church and some Christchurch wherein they said all the English treasure was: which treasure they would have amongst them They the said Rebells bidding their wyves be of good comfort: ffor that they shold were weare & have the clothes of the Ladies & gentlewomen of dublin Saying further that there would come great armyes out of ffrance & spaine to help them (meaneing the Rebells) And this deponent did observe and see the Rebells make divers dangerous deepe holes or Caves in the high way & nere the place which the where they had hidd their goodes purpossly that if any English or other souldiers that were not of their party & faction shold come there they might take those holes or Caves (which they the Rebells hadd couered with some Rafters & soddes) for firme ground & soe fall into

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    into the same and s oe bee there either killed or taken prisoners & left to their mercie And saith That one place or towne where they made such holes or Caves, & nere vnto which they have hidd much goodes, is about a myle westward from Cronrowe aforesaid vizt in a valley [ ] nere the wood that standeth on a hill betwixt that valley and Cronrow aforesaid In which valley there stands one only irish howse built of timber Mudd wall, & thatched: They way from the howse to that valley & place being holed and vaulted as aforesaid But the Rebells way which the Rebells vse thither was, as they came from the sowth they left the howse on the Right hand & then goe westwardly about Muskett shott in distan{ce} & then goe along northwardly & then eastwardly and then come round to the place on little more vnder the hill where the holes are And sayth she often heard the Rebells say that if they were disturbed in that place, they would carry their goodes to Barnebane which is in the County of wickloe and lyeth sowthwest over the greate Water from the place where the holes are but how many myles off she cannott tell And this deponent often heard it reported by and amongst the Rebells That a gentlewoman an English gentlewoman whoe was a ministers wiffe: was by the Rebells in the Tooles Cuntry taken prisoner & there had (by them) her belly ripped vp (she being greate with chyld) Insoemuch as they child fell from her when they most cruelly hanged her vp & by that meanes she djed The like vsage bloudy vsage the Rebells threatened to this deponent herself But god prevented it
    <HB: E:P>
    signum predictae Mariae Daniell
    [mark]
    Jur xxo die ffebr 1642
    Hen: Brereton
    Edw Pigott

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    Wickloe o
    Mary Daniell Jur
    xxo Febr 1642
    Intw Cert fact
    hand
    1 Nov

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    Edward Piggott
    Henry Brereton



     

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