Deposition of Elizabeth Fletcher
- Reference: MS 835, fols 242r-242v
- County: Fermanagh
- Date: 16/8/1643
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping
- How to Cite
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Elizabeth the Relict of Hamon Fletcher late of Litterkenin in the County of Fermanagh smith sworne saith That her said husband (then alive) & shee were deprived robbed or otherwis dispoyled of their goodes & chattells at Litterkenin aforesaid of the value & to their losse of one hundred sixty twoe Powndes ster: By the Rebells Edmund ô Connelley < a > of Killangford husbandman & Edmund ô Connelley of the Barrony of Lurge in the same County husbandman Nicholas Edwards of Killangford aforesaid laboror & others the souldjers and servantes of the Arch Rebell Rory Maguire: who carrid some of the same goodes to the Castle hassett then in the possession of the said Rory Maguire: And further saith That < b > Patrick Maguire the deponentes late servant and Cohonagh Maguire his brother both Labourers assisted & ioyned with the rest in Robbing the deponent & her neighbors: And that Brian Boy MaCaffry an Apparitor & Shane mc Huiagh his half brother Neille Booy their kinsman Owin Mackefee a Turner alsoe forceibly took away some of the deponentes goodes < c > And further sayth That one Rory Cashedy bloudie Rebell did as he himself confessed in Christmas 1641 kill this deponentes husband at Litterkine aforesaid and stripped him of his clothes: which Rebell or some other that had a hand with him in that murder gaue the deponentes husband divers greevous cutts & woundes in his head. & stabd a broade skeine through his threate and gaue him divers other mortall wouundes and hurts: & the deponent was left stript of all her clothes but those poore ones on her back which & hadd noe meanes for her self & her 4 children but at the mercie of the Rebells: whoe by credible report murthered a great number of the protestantes thereabouts by the sword hanging drowning starving & other cruell tormenting deaths: And further saith that amongst other murthers comitted by the Rebells in that part of
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the County of Kilkenny Fermanagh They there by the Comand and assistance of Hugh mc adegin Maguire a popish preist & a most bloudy villane hanged 14 protestantes the of her neighbors vizt William & John Bell & theldest sonn of the said William Bell: ffrancis Harthbor{
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Edward Piggott
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