Deposition of Suzanna Wyne
- Reference: MS 835, fols 189r-189v
- County: Fermanagh
- Date: 4/2/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Multiple Killing, Robbery
- How to Cite
fol. 189r
999
Suzanna Wyne late of Clantibbrin in the Countie of ffermanaghe sworne and examined deposeth and saith That on the xxiijth of October last her husband ffrancis Wyne and she were robbed expelled and dispoyled by the Rebells att Clantibbrin aforesaid of their goods and chattles to the values following vizt of howsholdgoods worth lxxvj li. corne and hay worth 20 li., beasts and cattle xij li. horses x li. Lambes xl s. swyne xxx s. corne and their farme and grownd worth lxx li. Their losse in all amounting to the some of one hundreth seventie one pownds vj s. viij d. <a> by the Rebells Patrick ô Rely Kegley of Clanteveran in the said County of ffermanagh gent, whoe tooke possession of the said farme and the howse thereon built forceibly expelled and thrust her this deponent, her husband and children out of the possession thereof one of the Rebells of his company drawing his sword, and holding it to her brest and protesting he wold kill her vnles she left the howse, wherevpon: And her husband for safety of his liffe being fledd away before, shee and with one yong child whom she carryd in her armes were forceibly driven away: leaving fowre children amongst the rest of the Rebells to their merciles cruelty And afterwards this deponent was stript and robbed of her clothes <b> worth xv li. by the wife of the Rebell captaine Rory mc Mahowne & soe through the cold & without clothes Jorneyed vpp to Dublin being often stayd, & tossed to and fro, and often turnd back againe from Captaine to Captaine, & divers tymes threatened & in danger to be slayne, And further saith that about the fowrth of december last the Rebells Capt Rory and Capt Redmond mc Mahowne late of the Dartry gentleman after they had robbed all thenglish all the Englishe they cold fell on the scotts and by and with their souldiers which were a greate number brought xviij of the Scotts being all howsholders into the Towne of Clowness and there imprisoned them in the Church, and some tenn dayes after hanged them all on the posts of the Churchyard gate in one night by torch light made of Rishes: which this deponent sawe
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Jur 5 Ffebr 1641
John Sterne.
William Aldrich
fol. 189v
1000
71 ffermanagh
Suzanna Wyne 5o Ffebr 1641
Cert fact
Intw
71 hand
29
John Sterne
William Aldrich