Deposition of Dorothy Rampaine
- Reference: MS 835, fols 247r-247v
- County: Fermanagh
- Date: 4/9/1643
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Death, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping
- How to Cite
fol. 247r
877
Dorothy Rampaine late wiffe of Zachary Rampaine of Aghrinaghe in the County of ffermanagh gent deceased sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That when the present rebellion began That is to say the xxiij th day of October Anno Domini 1641 or about that tyme, her said husband (then alive) & shee were by force and armes at Aghrinagh aforesaid & nere the same deprived expelled bereft and dispoyled of the possession and proffitts of their landes, farmes and of their goodes and chattells Consisting of beastes Cattle horses Mares Colts sheepe ready mony, howshold stuff provision & vtensills Corne graine hay feuell & other thinges of the value and to their losse of one thowsand seven hundred and thirty poundes ster by the Rebells of that County, which (as she hath heard, and verely < a > beleeveth) are theis hereafter named vizt Rory Maguire brother to the Lord of Eniskilling, Brian mc Coconagh Mc Guire of and others of the Maguires their confederates & adherents within that County of Fermanaghe: Whose Christen names she certenly knoweth not: < x >And further sayth that about five daies after, her said husband, and John Mayer her owne brother Humfrey Holloway and Robt Wheeler all English men having procured a passe from Brian Mc Coconagh Maguire and Captain Rorie Maguire, and they being sent away with a gard of Rebellious souldjers to be carried out of the County within 24 howres after the date of the said passe, vpon paine of death: < x > They this deponentes said husband and the rest of the English that had the said passe; were all murthered within the tyme lymitted by by their said passe [
fol. 247v
878
there in their nakednes from ffriday vntill Sunday morning lying vpon old rushes & one vpon another to keepe liffe & heate in them & then being comanded away & being comen from thence to the said Captin Atkinsons house or Castle Castle where she and her husband had left some of there howshold goodes the s{
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Jur 4 to Sept 1643
Hen: Brereton
Edw: Pigott
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She further saith that by credible report there were drowned by the rebells at Lowtherstowne in the county of the number of thirty protestantes but by what Rebells she cannott tell
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Jur ut supra
Fermanagh
Dorothy Rampaine Jur
4o Sept 1643
Intw
Hand
104
Edward Piggott
Henry Brereton