Deposition of Anne Booth
- Reference: MS 835, fols 078r-079v
- County: Fermanagh
- Date: 8/1/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping
- How to Cite
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Anne Booth of Littlegreene, in the parish of Drummully halfe Barrony of Coole & County of ffermanagh wife to James Booth of the same Tailor nowe one of his maiesties s ouldiers souldiers goune for Drogheda under the Commaund of Captaine Edward Aldrich, shee being of the Age of thirty nyne yeares or thereabouts & duely sworne deposeth that her said husband was Robed & dispoyled of all his goods of the severall vallues followeing the five & twentieth day of October last in the day tyme about tenn of the Clock in the forenoone, in Corne & hay worth seaventeene pounds, in Cattle worth fforty one pounds, in Cars y e kersey and ffrize worth thirty pounds in household goods, provition for the house & other goods worth fforty pounds, in Moneys thirty one pounds, One lease of parte of Littlegeene for thirty Eight yeares from Mayday last being parte & parcel of the Mannor of Castle Brinsley alias Castle Coole in the said county att and under the Annuall or yearely rent of thirty five shilings And another lease of parte of Mullalehan for twenty yeares from the first day of May last being parte of the same proportion att and under the Annuall or yearely Rent of fifty shilings worth fforty six pounds together with the said severall leases & escripts of the said severall parcells of land in all Amounting to the sume of two <250 li.> hundreth and five poundes By the hande action & meanes of <a> Captaine Rory Magwire of hassett towne in the Barrony of Lurge & County aforesaid & one of the sonnes of James Nettervill of the Barrony of Magharystaphany in the said county Esquire whose Christian name shee knoweth not And other Irish Rebells assembled in there Company to the Number of ffowre hundreth or thereabouts, there names shee certainly knoweth not And that she her husband and
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and two Children were all stript & all there Cloathes taken from them the said day in the Church yard att Newtowne in the said parish, & her other two Children stript & there Cloathes taken from them within two Myles of the said towne the next day ffolloweing, saying that they had a warrant from the said Captaine Rory to strip all the English that they mett withall in the said County And further deposeth that when they stript this deponent they ript downe this deponents smock with a skeane, And further deposeth that shee sawe did see some of them with a skeane give unto William Browne of the said parish one great wound in the hand, And the same night that this deponent and her husband was were robed the said Rebells imprisoned this deponent, and about 20 more in Newtowne aforesaid and kept a guard about them: Att which tyme one of the servants and soldiers of the said Rory McGuyre Guire said that they wold show noe favour to any for they intended not to leave an Englishman in Ireland but they would have their Landes againe: or else they would loose both their lives goods & Landes or to that effect, And saith that about 2 dayes before the Robbery aforesaid the said Rebells killed one Mr Christopher Cotes & by credible report they also kiled one Abraham James: George Dicconson Ran George Randle John Mange gent & Stephen Rickson
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Jur viij° Jan: 1641 cora
Will Hitchcock
Hen Brereton
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Ann Booth Com ffermanagh
Jur viij° Jan: 1641
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Henry Brereton
William Hitchcock