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Deposition of Briggett Drewrie

  • Reference:  MS 836, fols 046r-046v
  • County: Armagh
  • Date: 30/6/1642
  • Type: Dublin Original
  • Nature of Deposition: Death, Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Words
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    • fol. 46r


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    Briggett Drewrie of Crewcatt in the Countie of Ardmaghe widow the relict of Nicholas drewrie gentleman sworne and examined sayth That in the begining of the present rebelljon She and her said husband (whoe was then alyve), were by the Rebells within the said Countie forcibly expelled and driven from their farme of Crewcatt containing 200 acres and worth as she is perswaded one hundreth marks per annum above all rents & charges: of which farme her husband had lately taken a leas for three lives yet in being from one f fran Mr Sacheverell of Loggacorie Esquire: one yeres proffitt whereof she & her husband maketh accompt that she hathe already lost & is like to be deprived of the proffitts thereof from henceforth vntill a peace be established, & the lands come to their former value And this deponent was then alsoe expelled from deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of her g their her other goodes and chattells of the values hereafter mencioned vizt of Corne in the hagard worth 100 li. corne in the ground worth 100 li., of a trunck wherin were her apparell plate and fyne lynnen worth xl li. of oxen and Cowes worth Lx li. Six horses worth xx li. 20 English sheepe worth fowre powndes: Howseholdgoods & provition for howskeeping worth about xvj li.: And this deponent hath lost in debts (by reason of the Rebellion) the some of CC li. due secured vnto her & her late husband by Nicholas and John Druerie her husbands brother, whoe is robbed & is since slaine by the rebells as she hath beene lately informed: Soe as her whole present Losse that she can now remember, by reason of the Rebellion amounteth to the Sume of six hundreth and Six Pownds thirteene shillinges iiij d. Besides both this deponent and her said husband were most Inhumanely stript of all their clothes and turned in to the could and open aire naked per soe as they were exposed to such could and want that her said husband most Lamentably djed: she being left in that miserable state & predicament great with chyld: And further sayth that the parties rebells whoe robbed expelled and

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    soe dispoyled her and her husband as aforesaid were <a> Patrick mc Cann & Patrick mc Carr, twoe of their Late servants Mrô Hallagan the popish parrish preist and divers others whose names she cannott rememb{er} And further sayth that theis persons vndernamed alsoe are or were actors in this Rebelljon Captain Toole mc Cann of Richmond howse nere Portadowne Captainô Hagan now of Mullatry in the same Countie Captain Phelim mc Quin of Loggacorie in the same Countie Captain Hugh Boy mc Callo ughe Donnell now or Late of the towne and Countie of Armaghe And further saith that divers of the rebells would comonlie & publiquely say that it was noe more pittie to kill the English then to kill doggs calling the englishe heretiques and saying they were gods enimyes: & therefor{e} ought not to be releeved Saying further what right have the English in Ireland to doe any thing there They had beene there longe enoughe or to that effect And that the king was a king & noe kinge for he the parliament would suffer him to doe noe more then one of them cold doe or to that effect
    signum predicte Brigitte
    B
    Jur vltimo die Junij 1642
    Hen: Brereton Joh Watson: John Sterne



    Henry Brereton
    John Sterne
    John Watson



     

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