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pag 1 C. Galway Out of William strangewayes deposition He & his family robbed & stripped by these <Robbers names> William mc Hubbard Boork & his son Richard. Vlic Reogh Burk. William Burne a preest. Cormac mc dermot & his wife. Rich. mc Edm. Burk. Vlic mc Edm. Burk. Edm. og Kelly. Rob. & Edm. Murrogh. Jo. mc Hugh & Hugh mc John. William Brannagh & Brian mc Killvatty. John Graue & 30 more. <Majo murthers> The depon. heard it credibly reported that Lord of Majo vnd vndertaking the convoy of Bishop Maxwel & Mr Buchanan & the rest that were murdered at shrewl, was present when they were murdered.

out of William Shuttleworths depos. Deponent robbed of 584 li. worth of 9. by these <Robbers names> Anth. Linch gent. Redm mc Vlick Joh mc Vlic. Rich mc Dany & Vlic mc Redm. &c. <{ }Clanmorris murders.> in hanging Adam Novel Gent. Th. Gill & Andrew Gill & a boy. & sergeant Rouleright James Percivall & Rich. Bennet

out of Raph Lamberts deposit. Hee lost worth 401 li. <o connor dun> reported to be made King of Connaght <murdrers names> Rowland Burk & Simon with diuers crueltjes murder Hugh Langredg & left his son for dead <murd> Mr Corbet minister by Loghreegh murdred by 2. one of which taken was set free out of the stocks by the garison soldiers <{C}lanrickard hangs a murder} An englishman murdred at Knocmoy, but the murtherer is hanged at Loghreogh by clanrickard <murders names> Hubert boy Burks soldiers murder a child murders at AbbyBoile by some mc dermots <murders name> [ ] 28 at siluermines by mr Kennedy he falls mad & drownes himselfe <{C}on Roorks patent> pretends a pa ttent comission for his horrid murthers & bur{ings} but hanged a patent seale got at Mohil to a counterfet writing <{E}ngl. Apostate> neare Ophaly in Kings County turnes for feare & by a priest & soldier is killed for in that good minde for feare of relapsing <Obscene cruelty & murther> The dep. is informed (& so sayes one other deposicion) that when that cruell massacre was done at sligo they layd dead carcases of men & women together in a shameful posture & solaced themselues with it. <murders> County of Mayo men after battel of Balintobity wherin they were beaten, reveng thems. vpon a few English there left fol. 120v

County of Roscomon Deposition of Amy Hawkesworth <cruel murther at Sligo> after quarter & conditions agreed vpon the were stripped imprisoned & many starued with hunger [ ] & almost all the rest murdered in prison. The depone{nts} husband left for dead escaped to the curlewes nee{re} the Boile & there was hanged <names of murderers> Teig o Connor Sligo cheef in command. with his brothers Brian Charles Hugh. Brian mc Donogh. luke & Frank Taaf Patr. Plunket Donel mc Brian Dorogh. John O crean. Brian mc Swine Roger Mc Owen. Phelim & Teig boy o Connor & Tei{g} o Connor of the Glan. Con Connor. Owen o Ror{k} Teig mc Brian Ballogh o Roork. Hugh mc Donogh Rob. mc nemy. William oge mc Phelim mc Glannagh of the Dartry. William mc Glannagh of the same. Teig mc phelim mc Glanngh James French & Geoffry Fren{ch} Kedagh o Benaghan. Edm. mc Brian mc Swyne the Guardian of the Dominicans at Sligo Charles Gillegan. William o crean & more. Corm. mc Guire <The murdered> Th. Stewart Sampson Port & his wife. William Welsh & his wife mr Braxton James Scot & his childe & father Paul John little Arthur Martin. William Doolittle with wife & children William Carter John Lewis, his wife & children Eliz. Harlo Rob. Siens. William Blatt & Jeremy Blat, & very many more, some more are mentioned in the deposition

<this belongs to Sligo> out of Henry Langfords deposition <robbed & spoiled> To the present value of 577 li. <murderers at sligo.> Here is added more murderers names as Hugh mc Tool o Galle Gallogher & more murdered <he left for dead> as Robert Cambel provost of Sligo, william Sheeln Abraham the cutler. William chapman <murder at Shrewl> in the C. of Galway reported to be 90 persons <murder by the Moyne> 59 persons butchered <obscene cruelty in Sligo massacre> In the murder at Sligo they gathered limbs cut of & placed the bodyes of men with women in a posture vnfit to be told <Robin o Crean> buryes them all <murdered> about 140 Engl. families in that County of Sligo

Depos. of John Dodwill <robbed & spoiled> of his to the value of 590 li. besides 120 li. per annum <robbers names> Redm. o fallon & his son William. Rory & laghlin Fallon John, Rory, Riogh Hugh Turlogh Fallons of the barony of Athlone <Castle betrayd> his castle of Grange betrayed by 2 of his warders Donogh Scurloe & James his son. The takers. John Nangle. Brian o Kelly of Kilmoile William Ensedoon &c. <Kellyes murderes> of men women & children <Anthony Brabazon> 5{ } fol. 121r

pag 3 <Anth. Brabson a murtherer> Turnes papist in the begining of the rebellion. spitefull wilfull. great, robber, burner. kills most he can take & for such service (though an Englishman) yet made a Comissioner & Captain <murther> of J. Price by Callogh o Kelly of Clonengly & Hugh Kelly of Torpane or by their meanes. Th. Kegyan murthered by the sayd Con Kelly <{?}> of mris Smith by William o Fallon & of miltown & many others murthered about Athlone & Athleig

Deposition of Edw. Peerson <Oliver fitz Gerald a murtherer> robs the deponent & others & hangs 16 Engl. stripped the lady Dutton. Rory mc

Depos. of Eliz. Holiwell <robbed> to the value of 390 li. by these <names of Robbers> Fran. Farrel of mote Brian Farell of Tilileckan Kedagh mc Laghlin Con mc Ross & Rich. Farrell mc Conel. & lisagh mc Conel. <murderer> Charles o Connor Roe of Belanafad murders diuers of his English tenants, murthers a woman with child who seeing her husband & children executed receiues her death with smiles saying she hoped to sup in heauen <an honest Irish man> Nicolas Ninny helps to convey away diuers poore Engl. <King of Connaght> Charles o Connor Dun is reported by christofer Delahide to be made King

County Sligo Deposit. of J. Harison Esquire <murders> Relates mr oliphants being dragged by a horse taile for a mile & halfe & not being dead therewith is killed with skeanes by J. o Crean John Rodes & his wife great with child hanged on the curlewes John stanwny killed there Relates that 140 or 160 were the number reported to be Killed at Sligo That william steward & his wife & some 17 women & children in the Boyle were murthered by Teig mc Dermot & Rob. mc nemee &c.

Deposition of William Welsh iunior <Murthers> of Sligo he sayes as others but numbers not so many <names of murderers> the same that in Amy Hawksworths depos he ads Hugh o Connor of mc Gillerny Teig o Sheil. Roger mc Murry. Kedagh o Hart Edm. o Flin. Rich. Nich. & Tho. Welch &c. & that it was deliberated before fol. 121v

Depos. of John Strawley vicar of Eskagh <{ }k murther> of Rapagh breakes conditions sworn etc & causes mr Walters & his man to be murthered. strips and the women stripped mrs Gardiner slayne <diuers murthrers> at a solemn meeting at Moyne, the Gentry {resolve?} to mur{der} them all there left viz 35 amongst them William oge Buch{anan} & James the weauer of Killalla or Moyne & diuers oth{ers} <drowned> 7 persons neare Killalla James French of Sligo ow e s deponent 12 li. but releiue s him not.

Deposition of William Browne Gent. <robbed> to the value of 1862 li. present, & of 200 li. per annum <by> Ferdorogh, Ferganonim, Brian & Laghlin mc donoghs of Coolea in the Barony of Tireereh & a whole page more of names <Friars discourse> Brian mc Kiggan tells the deponent that the blood in Connaght spilt by the Binghams was now re v to be revenged and the mony & fines levyed vpon recusants was now to be remembered. That all the Papists in Ireland were ingaged

Depos. of Jane Browne <murther at Tee temple> after conditions of safe convoy to Boile sworn to mr Oliphant & mr Wray ministers [ ] and diuers others murthered <murderers> Capt. Hugh mc Donogh Brian o Hara, Jo. o Crean, Rob. mc Conner oliuer Hara. Luke Taaf Fr. Taaf. Teig o Conner Sligo, Cormac oge Hara, James French, Jeffrey French Robin Crean <more> at Raban murthered 6 or 7 more. but before they were dead buried them <murther> 1 of deponents sons drowned at Dramhere by the Oroorks & 2 starved with hunger & cold in stri begging vp & down <kindnes of Farel o Gara> in releeving cloathing & covoying the deponent

Deposition of Edw. Braxton <robbed> To the value of 665 li. & names <murtherers names> at the Sligo murther after conditions made <more by Col o roork> murthered viz Mr more minister Ju dale ware

depos. of Jane steward of Sligo towne <Robbed of 1200 li. worth &c.> by And. Crane Rich. Creane Anth. Crean. J. Crean. <names of Robbers> Neal o Hart. Roger o Connor, Donel o Connor <murtherers as aforesaid> in Sligo towne after assurance of safe convoy consult 3 dayes with the friars & then send in at midnight Ch. Conner & the rest of O Conners brothers. 2 butchers James & Rob. Buts. Teig Sheel. Kedagh o Hart. Rich. & Th. Walsh & others fol. 122r

p. 5 <C. Sligo> more of Jane stewards deposition <murthered> aboue 30 in the Gaole. the childrens legs & armes seene thre put through the wounds of their slaine mothers some more They that carried them out to buriall stand vp to the mid leg in blood more murthered afforesaid <obscene dealings with dead bodjes> as before in other depositions you are told <prodigyes> Riuer vsed to be plentifull of fish yeelds none long after. Guardian of Friars runs mad <procession> friars go in procession to blesse the riuer & cast in holy water

County Maio Deposition of Eliz. Buchanan <Robbed> To the value of 610 li. <robber names> Alex. mc Donel & other mc Donels mc Andrews, Barrets & Boorks <murdered> J. Buchanan Esquire Deane Fargy her husband mr Barnet, mr Brian mr Robinson Mr Awsly & others viz 55 after conditions & quarter at CastleBar giuen by L. Maio were murthered <murderers> at Shroole by the Boorks. they killed many women & stripped the rest naked, who it is like perished with cold or were killed <Friars> many sayd The Friars se t them on to do so.

Henry Brinkhurst Esquire his deposition. <murthers C. Sligo> related which were acted at sligo vpon 39 Brittish by the O Connors & some vltaghs & that at Teetemple wherein the formerly named J. Crean was cheef. <murthers at Shrool> by Edm. Boork Ensign to his brother Walter Boork & his company wherein the titular Archbishop of Tuam seems to haue a hand John Garvy sherif of the County then, guilty <L. Majo> goes to masse 3 dayes after <number 65> murthered <murthrers names> Edm. Burk. J. Garuy Tibbot o Burk of moile. Walter malled. William Crone Mc Phelim Donogh o Hubban. Walter prindergras Tool o Higgin & Rickard Reagh, manus mc Murragh, Kedagh mc Jones. William Boork of Castle lackan &c. <hand Walter Burk of Turlogh> & Alex. mc Donel releas one of the murderers. & many of the best in those countryes are guilty <murther> of 25 or 27 Brittish going in Boates from C. Mayo to Kilbegs by the Barrets & others, <deponent robbed> of 1100 li. by the clanjordans clan stevens & clan donels

Andr. Adajr Esquire his deposition <robbed> To the value of 1400 li. by many Gentlemen of the country <malice> in murthering all cattel of English [subjects] <bloody disposition> of Friars in solemne & publique thanksgiuing to god for murthers committed {comitted} fol. 122v

<robber{y}> of 80 Engl. at Sir ch Cootes iron works in Co. Letrim by Owen o Roork & Con o roork. I note here & Sir Ch. Coote knowes diuers of his workmen were killed <mur{der}> of Sligo here confirmed. consultation about theyr murther with theyr clergy <high cruelty> inforcing the father to kill his child & child his father (with prickes of skeines as I haue heard) & ripping vp the belly of a woman with child & throwing them after into the riuer <prodigy> confirmed of Sligo riuers not yeelding fish after the carcases thrown in (though the most plentiful of Ireland before) <high cruelty> in burying aliue some in such sort that they might not dy presently. some of theyr voyces heard a day after <murthrers> John o Crean the sept of Hara & mc Donogh who murthred mr oliphant & others <Lt Rutledg> turned papist betrayes diuers English retired to him at Beleek. 120 English lost thereby & murthered by mc Swines & Dowdes <cruelty before murther> in halfe hanging, pricking with skeines or tying with withs to make them confes money before theyr killing <prodigy> Jo. Reinolds trembles & can eat nothing when he heares the name of Th: Trafford minister whom he had murthered at Longford in the C. of Longford <murther> at shroole confirmed by the deponent accuses L. Majo as guilty 2 boates with 60 persons going from Killall, persons all murdred <murther> aboue 600 in C. Sligo & Mayo besides others he knew not of <good service> to kill Brittish <good conscience> to break faith with heretick protestants <bloody cruelty> in murthring infants <bloody cruelty> in the murther of William stewart at the Boyle. cut collops of him liuing, put fire coles in his mouth, & wrapped his guts about his neck and armes, <murthrer> The son of long Owen mc Dermot of the Curlews as in former depositions <murther> of Mr Fullerton & mr liston by owen o Roork & Brian mc Donogh <Names of murtherers> He sets down a page & halfe of names

Deposition of Th. Jonson vicar of Turlogh <Titular Archbishop> seazes on his living. that is Malachias Kelly <Castle Bar> beseeged & taken by Edm. Burk of Brackagh in the Owles <L. Mayo> undertakes vpon deliuery of Castle Bar to convoy the Brittish to Galway. but failes, but Walter Burke of Turlogh keepes & clothes the petitio deponent. <murther> at shroole as before but that he makes the L. Majo more guilty then others do. 6 ministers among them that were slajn <spite & malice> against Engl. lawes & other things in a formall inditing engl. cattel giuing them the book & asking legit aut non S <stephen Linch> prior of strade sayes it is as lawfull to kill an Englishman as a dog or sheep fol. 123r

{pag 7} <murther> Kedagh Ro mc James clandonel bragged he killed {at?} shroole <cruelty> to the deponents 2 children<{Cl}anrickard> releeues him & many others <{Ar}chbishop of Tuam> Kelly tells them when they went against CastleCoot that they should haue the H. Ghost say masse thrice vnto them before they came to battle with Sir C. Coot

Deposition of J. Goldsmith parson of Brashawl saith he perceiues by Letters of his brother a priest at Antwerp that the papists of this land entended the rebellion 4 yeares before that when it was ready to break out, he discouered by their making so may skeines it was & gaue notice &c. <Sir Henry> Bingham refuses to entertajn him in his castle when it was an open warr for feare the enemy should prosecute himselfe for entertaining him that had bin a popish preest. <{r}obbed> & in very great danger of life by Edm. melaghlin, escapes at last to L. Majos house <robbed> mr perciuall was, & L. Majo pursues, but joynes with the enemy & quarters with them amongst the Friars of Ballihawnes, who stir vp him & the rest to all the following mischeefs <L Majo> complaines of the state for not furnishing him with armes & amunition breakes his minde for ioyning in show with the rebells, is advised to auoyd dissembling & shew him. an open enemy speedily after falls to popery <Sir Henry Bingham> in a complement to my the L. Mayo tells him he would walk in the same way which his Lordship took, & so becomes a papist also There remajn only 10 protestants in the County, aboue 1000 turn to masse amongst the rest Jonson vicar of Vrras <deponents> constancy in religion. & conflict with popish bookes & men. preaches frequently to the 10 aforenamed <murther> at shrool as before. <murther> at sligo as before <murther> by the Moyne or Killalla related differing from others in it <Crueltyes> before murther, in straying theyr heads with a twist of a with or halfe hanging iterated to tell where theyr mercy was <murther> of mr mongo meryes son by his schoolmaster. they bury a Scotchman aliue, they hang another <revolted> protestants robbed of all & in danger of death continually <malice> & murthers done not for religion but for nation <neglect> of punishing murthrers by the great ones; one whipt & another a few dayes imprisoned for their murthers <names> of robbers he taxes all & particularizes some

Thom. Hewets deposition <names of Robbers> < [ ] murthers> at shroole mentioned here. he calls that Edm. Burk o Redmond makes it douptfull whether Lord Mayo stood by fol. 123v

<L. Mayo> his steward a great robber of English yet continu in his service <murther at Sligo> confirmed <cruel murther> of Georg Buchanan in wounding him & then bury him aliue <murtherer> Edm. o Maghery living by Strade & some others <drowned> in the moyn riuer 2 or 3 hundred <Rory More> the great rebell 18 weeks before the rebellion was in consultation with L. Mayo about it. <murtherers & robbers names> Sir Theob. Boork the Lordships son. Rich. {the} L[ ] ther. Jo. Browne Ant. and J. Garvy. David Kelly of { }mnamony Edm & J Boork of clogher. J. Moor of B{ }er Edm. Burk the Lordships son. all esquires

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Josias Dawson

9 The Relacion Examinacion of Josias Dawson late of Kilconnell in the County of Galway En gent Concerninge this Rebellion together wyth a Scedule of & his what losses he hath sustyned by Reason of this Rebellion so neare as he can [ ] to the best of his knowledge vpon oath sworne & examined deposeth and saith That About Allhallontyde last 1641 he first heard the Report of diuers towens villages and houses of the English which were Robbed pillaged and spoyled in the Countyes of Cauan fermanagh letrim & Sligo and also of the, treacherous atempt agaynst the Castle and Cytye of Dublin and soone after that the a greate part of the Irish in the Countye of Roscomon was out pyllag pyllaginge and takeinge away all english mens goods, And also diuers loose and lewde persons and others began to flocke together about the place where I the deponent liued, and so that He was glad to keepe as good watch as He Could both euery night & day about his house and ouer all his goods yett neuertheless my his Chatle & sheepe were stole at seuerall tymes on the night and haueing few or no english famylies neare him, but a Couent of fryers was my his next neyghbors, who professed much loue to him Hee went to the Guardyan of the sayd fryers named Donnell Kelly and <A> desyred hym to tell me him th what was the Cause of all those stirrs and if he knew of my danger, towards myselfe the deponent or his house or goods who then Answered me that he dyd not know the Reason of those stirrs, but for my the deponent himselfe and famyly he would vndertake no hurt should Com vnto vs them. And for his goods he would protect them the best he Could, and gaue him leaue to Lodge all my his Catle wythin theyre liberties of on the night tyme, which He dyd setting a watch ouer them, yett the Second or third night He lodged them, there there was 4 of his best Cowes gone stole furth of theyre sayd Lyberties And About the same tyme, there Cam seuerall messengers, vnto him to tell home thus there, was seuerall of the okellies that liued about the sucke, not farr from Ballinaslye and especially one shane boy o Kelly (as He Rememberth) that threatened to Com and take away all his goods very shortly and diuers of my his loose neyghbirs began and some strangers bega n more and more to flocke about his house and land lookeing very disdaynfully vpon vs him & his as if they meant forthwith to [danger? ] vs them wherupon He agayne Repayred to the sayd Guardian of the fryars Donnell Kelly and desyrd him to deale playnely with him and aquaint him truely of the Danger who Answered me that he had spoken wyth som gentlemen of the Country his frends who seemed to be much offended wyth hym for offeringe to protect him telling hym that he ought not to doe it, (And that they tould him that they had a patent from the kyngs Maiestie, for takeinge away all english goods and that it was lawfull for them to doe it) wherupon He seinge my the Danger aproachinge was forced to hasten away towards Gallway beinge the next towen of strength where we hoped for any safty, wyth my wyfe, & som of my famyly takeinge wyth vs what goods we Could in such hast and distraction, butt leaueing a great part of my houshould goods wyth the sayd fryers who promised to send them aftir me to Gallway and my Corne wyth one william <c.> Rastigan a marchant of the towen, and left also som of my seruants in my house wyth a nurse & yong Chyld where was also the Rest of my houshould goods left and also left a good numbir of horses mares & Colts & Chatle vpon the land, and departed towards Gallway, the 15th of December 1641. 9 fol. 127v

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11 apoyntinge som of my seruants to keepe 7 or so many of my best horses as they Could, Close in my stable to bringe me Corne houshould stuff and other nessessessary prouission to Gallway. But as I am was Credybylly Informed and by my syd seruants and others, about the 23th of December, Cam one James mc Guff Connall Mullally Donell Camann and others Rebells and wyth force & violence broke open the locke of my stable dore dore and tooke eyght of my best horses from thence and after my seruants haueinge gotten 5 of them or others of myne agayne into my syd stable & locked mended the locke of the dore the forenamed persons togethir wyth <b:> one Nicholas mc Guff about St stephns Day as my syd seruants & others dyd, Credibly Informe me dyd agyne in a most violent manner breake open my syd stable dore and tooke away the syd 5 horses so that I Could gytt no more carriage or prouission for the Releefe of my self & famyly brought to Gallway and as I am also Informed the forenamed parties dyd take the Rest of my horses mares & Colts And other younge Chatle from of the lands where they were left. And I am Credybly Informed that one Donough Mullally stole diuers of my Chatle both before I Cam from Kyllconnell and after soone aftir vizt about the twelfth day there Cam to my house at kyllconnell as I am Credibly Informed about 200 Re persons both strangers & neyghbors and Rifled all my houses takeing away bedsteads Cubbords tables hus husbandry things broke dowen dores wyndowes & particions & made [ransacke?] of all and not so Contented twice stripped the poore Infant left wyth the Nurse and they say the neyghbors thereabouts hid most of those goods, and the syd Donough Mu llally was one of the chefe Actors therin Now at [ ] soe beinge in Gallway we found the towensmen of Gallway generally affected to fauour the Rebells all the english there much despysed threatened and many pyllaged, My selfe had taken and stole away from me at least two hondreth she good sheepe qui c aliue and deade which I brought thither, And they could dyd keepe theyre gates fast shutt at seuerall somtymes a weeke somtymes more and nott suffer any english body to goe forth puttinge them not onely in greate feare, but oftentymes in greate Danger of theyre liues, so that we perceaued they meant to be in Accion of Rebellion my selfe went to take Armes at the fort leauinge my wyfe & famyly in the towen, as I was forced wyth many othir distressed english famylies And about the 19th day of march the towensmen dyd tracherously take a shipp of aboue 200 tun burthen which brought them salt & other Comodyties one Clarke beinge the master kyllinge 3 or 4 of the men aboord left for the defence of the shipp wounding others tooke forth of it 8029 peece of Ordinance & all the goods, soone after the towens men Joyned <D:> wyth Murro mc Doe and Murro mc Mart & theyre Companyes of Ere Conought made Entrenchments and beseidged the forts the most part betwyxt easter and whitsontyde pu keepeinge all victualls and prouissions from vs & shuttinge agaynst vs upon all occassions of aduantage and putt vs to greate strenghts and had putt vs to more if we had not beene Rcomferted and Releued by the Right honorable the earle of Clanrickard & St Albones who at length about whitsontyde made 11 fol. 128v

12 A pasification betweene the towen and fort vpon Certayne Couenants of agrement, and abated the edge and fury not onely of them butt of di othir ill affected subiects in the Countye, and dyd protect & Releue the Eng all the English in the Countye wyth all his greate wysdome & Industry, att the begininge dureinge the tyme of the syd seedge all the english in the towen of Gallway were dysarmed in the tyme of the seedge one fox and his wyfe beinge protestants were murdered in the towen and also one the wyfe of one mr Collins a Church man and som spoke of more and many of the english were pylladged on or about the 13th of march 1641 by Credible Relacion about 100 [ ] persons men woemen & Children, b ut most of them men beinge disarmed and turned out of the Castle of Castlebarr in the Countye of Mayo, and other places adioyninge And Cominge towards Gallway for theyre bettir saffgard, was sett on as is Sayd by one Redmond Burke and his Consorts at vpon and about the brydge of shrule which deuideth the Countyes of Maio and Gallway And there, about 60 of them was most Cruelly murdered, whereofe 5 Mynisters & other men of good note A note of my losses Casued by this And further saith That in the begining of the Rebellion he this deponent I held by Lease of for 31 yeares, Certayne lands at and about Kyllconell as may it [apear ] beinge about the quantytye of 600 Ackres (besids other Lands which I held from may to may), about 7 yeares of which lease was expyred and neare 24 then to Com at the begininge of this Rebellion The most of which tyme of that I had Inioyed the same syd lease lands I had spent in Buyldinge houses makeing Orchards Gardings Inclossiers and other Improuements vpon the syd lease land to my great Cost and Charges of at Least .............................................................200 li. so that I doe Acount my dispossession of the syd lands, (haueinge made my houses Conuenient brought my my the lands to good & Improuement and fully stocked the same) for neare 24 yeares then to com I doe Estimat to be was to my loss and hindrance of at least.............................................................................................................400 li. 500 li. At the begininge of the syd Rebellion I [had] he lost, at least 13 hondred and 40 good sheepe, by which I lost the value of..................................................300 li. I had also eyght score, head of good Chatle yong & ould by which I lost the value of worth..........................................................................160 li. I had Also 37 heades of horses mares and Coults which I lost to the value of worth.....................................................................................060 li. I lost In Corne left behind him to the value of.......................................................050 li. In greate Barly and wheate sowen in ground the worth of....................................070 li. In houshould stuff and implements of husbandry worth things he lost to the value of....................................................................................70 li. In turfe and hey to the value of................................................................................15 li. <1195 li.> Josias Dawson Jur xxvijo Octobr 1642 Joh Watson: Will: Aldrich 12 fol. 129r

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Galway Mr John Josias Dawson Jur xxvijo Octobr 1642 Intw Cert fact hand 1 no 15 dec 1185 li.

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John Watson William Aldrich

Edward Piggott

39 Edward Piggott Clerke [ ] Provost of Tuam in the County of Galway sworne & examined deposeth and sayth That since the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof He hath beene & still is deprived robbed or otherwise dispojled of his meanes goods & chattells & of the values following vizt of goodes chattells & the proffitts of his Church Liveings worth twoe hundreth thirty twoe poundes ten shillinges ster: And this deponent is like to be deprived of the future proffits of his Church liveings worth Cxx li. per annum vntill a peace be established, by and by the meanes of those that are now in Rebellion or that are daily comerseing & trading with the Rebells. vizt Sir Tho: <A> Blake and his sonne Sir Valentine Blake, and the wholle towne of Galway in open action of Rebellion (excepting only Thomas Linch fiz Peirce & his family whoe are protestants, and very few others of that towne but that haue declared themselues open Rebells, and did beseedge & drew others of the Countie with them to beseidge his Maiesties ffort of Galway as namely Moroghe Nadow & Moroghe Namarle alias fflahertie, of Erconoght in the said Countie of Galway & alsoe Thomas Bourke of Anvally and Richard Bourk of derrymcLaghlin Esquires, whoe with the Rebell townsmen of Galway for about nyne weekes, beseeged the said forte Edw Pigott Jur xxo decembr 1642 Hen: Brereton Will: Aldrich

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William Strangwaies

55 William Strangwaies Late of Killenlugg in the County of Galway gent Ensigne to Captain John Ridge & Mustermaster of the province of Connaght sworne & examined deposeth and saith That after the begining of the present Rebellion vizt about the tenth of december 1641 This deponent att Killenlugg aforesaid was deprived robbed or otherwise dispoiled of his goods & chattells of the values following vizt of beasts Cattle & horses worth CClxxv li. x s. Corne & hay 70 li. Apparrell xxx li. Howsholdgoods & provition 40 li. The fyne of his farme at Laballirow in the County <A> of Mayo given vnto Sir James Dillon now a notorious Rebell for a leas thereof for xxj yere comenceing at May now last past (The leas and writing being by the Rebells taken from him) xx li. debts owing xxxv li. The proffits of his farme at Killenlugg worth clerely vnto him xx li. per annum & he is like to loose the future proffitts for one yere more & then his leas expireth worth 20 li. Soe as his losses in all amount vnto the sume of ffive hundreth and tenn pownds tenn shillinges ster And saith That the parties that soe deprived Robbed & dispoyled him are Rebells & not only with force and armes soe robbed and deprived of him but stripp{ed} him and his wiffe of all their clothes saveing his shirt and her smock & exposed them to the couldnes of the winter and to goe away in that distresse 6 or 7 myles for shelter, Soe as the deponent comeing to a deepe River was gladd to wade through to the shoulders first with his wife on his back, and after for his sonn and daughter, And this deponents aged father of 86 yere ould was alsoe robbed and stript of his horse and clothes & was exposed to the like want that this deponent suffered And after by meanes of frends recouering Clothes and strength and adventureing with the wing of Musketteers against the enemy was shott and therewith slayne at Mullentrim in the County of Roscomon: & th{is} deponents said wiffe dyed about the tenth of August last, And <B:> sayth That one Mary the wife of Cormuck mc Dermond of Killenlugg being nurse to this deponents child was soe cruell and <275 70 30 40 20 35 470> 55 fol. 131v

56 & barbarous that she forceibly tooke away from him the said childs Coate and the very sheete wherewith he was tied to a girls back that carryed him away with this deponent and his wiffe, when they fledd for safetie of their liues: & she alsoe forceibly tooke away from that girle a loafe of bread and cheese: which shee hadd to carry away for victualls for them & soe robbed them of their meate after they were deprived of their Clothes & other meanes of Livelihood And further sayth That the other parties Rebells that soe robbed, & deprived him <A> of his goodes & meanes were thies that follow vizt William Mc Hobart Bourke now of Killinlugg (this deponents howse) & Richard Bourke his sonn vllick Keogh Bourke of <Galway> Lisdrissan gent William ô Birne a popish Preist & the said Cormuck Mc Dermond Richard B mc Edmond Bourk of Buntobber gent Vllick mc Edmond Bourk his brother Edmund oge Kelly servant to Mr Bourk of Temp Castletogher gent Roberte ô Morraghe of Killenlugg aforesaid one of this deponents owne tenants & Edmund his sonn of the same John Mc Hugh, & Hugh mc John both of the same, and this deponents tenants William Brannaghe & Brian mc Kil{la}lly of the same alsoe tenants to this Deponent John Graue of Lisrewis servant to the said William Mc Hobert Bourk & divers others Rebellious souldiers Comanded by Richard Bourke sonn of the said William Bourk to the number of 40 or thereabouts whose names he cannott now Remember And further sayth That after ever since this deponent & his wiffe his father & said Children were driven from their habitacion & fledd to the Abbey of Roscomon this deponent hath ever since hath beene in service vnder against the Rebells vnder the Command of the said Captain Ridge <symbol> And this deponent hath credibly heard & partly knoweth that when mr Bewcannon & others of the Brittish were murthered by the Rebells att Shrowle, in the County of Mayo: The Lord of Mayo: that vndertooke to conduct them was then & there in Person & those brittish were then and there murthered by his followers in his the lord of Mayos presence Will: Strangwaies Jur 16 Dec 1642 Joh Watson: Will {Aldri}ch 56

John Watson William Aldrich

Phillip Bygoe

Phillipp Bygoe late of Newtowne in the County of Galway, and now of the Citty of Dublin gent sworne and examyned, deposeth as follow That since the begininge of this late present Rebellion in Ireland hee hath lost, and bin deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of his estate in meanes goods & chattles Consistinge of Cattle horses, sheepe, Corne, Haye, debts, leases leases money plate housholdstuff and other things goods & Chattles of the vallue and to the presente loss of [ ] seaven Thowsand six hundred Twenty five pounds ster or thereaboutes besides his estate {by} inherittance of the Castles of Newtowne aforesaide and Ballyvillin, in the County of Clare, being well worth Three hundred & fifty pounds per annum, and a parcell of land called Killorny in the K{inges} County worth thirty poundes per annum whereof he is like to loose the future proffitts vntil a {peace be} established All which hee hath bin depriued of by the ensueing Rebells, as alsoe {man}y others which hee Cannott nominate (vizt) <a> Kings Com John Coughlan of Streamstowne Esquire Arte Molloy of Rathleighan Esquire Cossny Molloy of Cuilly gent [ ] Coughlan of Miltowne gent Com Tipperary Morrogh ô Kennedy of Larkin Esquire James Kennedy of Ballin{garr}y Esquire John oge Kennedy of Inchr{o}e gent Phillipp Kennedy ofgent Arte mc Geoghegan ofgent Com galwayOwen oge ô Maddin of Curclogh gentleman Sargent Hugh Kelly ofgent. Com ClareOlliver Delahyde of Tredagh Esquire All which persons are or lately were in action of Rebellion carrying Armes with for & amongst the other Rebells against our soueraigne lord the Kinges Maiestie And his loyall protestant subjects. <symbol> And this Deponent further sajth That all the Rebells before named 3 fol. 132v

4 (saveing only the said Oliver Delahyde) & at least 500 more of their Rebellious souldjers: about 7 or 8 months since, layd strong seege to this deponents Castle of Newtoune aforesaid & contynued that seige without ceasing for about 12 dayes together But And this deponent then and for a long tyme before haveing at his owne charges & not being releeved by anie maintained & kept there twelve souldjers & fforty twoe Protestants more besides of women and children:) defended the Castle as well as they could: & with their shott Killd many of the Rebells & many others they hurt; But this deponent & the rest of his souldjers (being much distressed especially by the want of sh Powder shott amunition and & men: & being debarred from water & other meanes of Longer subsistence,) were at length inforced to stoope & yeild to that want, & with much dificulty this deponent gott quarter for himself, his souldjers family and people to come away & depart with their Lives, and only with 2 musketts 2 swords 2 pistolls, their apparell & some the most part of their other goodes: but this deponent was inforced then to give and deliver to those Rebells fowrscore & Eleven pownds xj s. in mony: And althoughe saith that ever since the begining of the Rebellion hee this deponent and his said souldjers, family, & people, aforesaid (whom hee solely manteined) were (vntill they had quarter) soe watched besett & kept soe narrowly in the said Castle, that they durst not sturr publiquely abroad becawse the Rebells Lay soe nere & were soe many against them: Saveing that one tyme, when this deponents owne Brother in lawe by name Jacob Dehooe & 4 other souldjers martched privately out out of the said Castle,: The Rebells that lay closse in ambush (being three or fowre hundreth in number) suddenly rushed vpon them & slew then and there slew this deponents said Brother in lawe: but the other 4 souldjers flying towards the Castle were rescowed from the Rebells pursuers; by such as did sally out of the Castle: And at another 4 fol. 133r

5 <symbol> tyme the Rebells hanged one William Wasberry one of this deponents souldjers & his wife: as they were privately goeing to visitt their sonn whome the Rebells had wounded: And further saith That althoughe this deponent heard & verely is assured that the Rebells comitted many other outrages Cruelties murthers & wicked actions in vpon & against his Maiesty & his lojall protestant subjects in many Counties of the said Kingdome of Ireland: yet this deponent being soe pent vpp & besett with Rebells as aforesaid & soe not goeing abroad) Could was not an eye witnesse of the same: But leaveth the same to thexpressions of such as particulerly saw them [same] Philippe Bigo Jur 24o Marcij 1642 Hen: Brereton Edw Pigott

And this deponent further sajth That about the month of May 1642 hee this deponent and some of his souldjers ryding from this Deponents castle <a:> aforesaid mett by accident with one Donoghoe ô Deere whom they suspecting examined & searched & fownd about him a letter written from the Rebell Art o Molloy of Raghleighin to a fryer in Galway whereby hee requested that fryer to send him that thing whereof the Cuntry stood in most need, & which was most pretious amongst them: & to send him what the price thereof was & that hee had sent mony (for that he sent for, by that bearer or to that effect And vpon further search this deponent fownd & tooke from that Donoghoe threescore Pownds in money & a great leathern bagg wherein hadd beene gunpowder: which letter this deponent sent afterwards to the lord of Clanrickard: & haveing taken the said donoghoe into his Custodie he the said Donoghoe tould this deponent that 20 li. of that 60 li., was the said Arts owne mony wherefore & for that he the deponent conceived (as yet he doth) that the letter was cheefely sent for gunpowder: being the thing in the letter writt ment & writt for & esteemed soe pretious: hee this deponent kept the said 60 li., & delivered the said <b:> Donoghoe to one Mr Gerrett More, whoe vndertooke to bring him before the Erle of Clanrickard aforesaid: Howbeit afterwards when as the said Garrett Moore shold have deliuered him over to the said Erle: There was 5 fol. 133v

6 was a peticion proferred to the said Erle by Nicholas Harbert thelder of Killyan Esquire in <a> the name of the said donoghoe: That this deponent might be comanded to deliuer againe vnto him the said 60 li.: The said Harbert Then averring to the Erle that the said donoghoe was an honest man & a merchant, that only went to buy wares wherevpon the deponent received a Coma{nd} from the said Erle either to redeliuer the said mony, or shew cawse to the contrary: vpon which the Deponent hadd letters from Sir Arthur Blundell knight and Captain Pearsons that the said Donogh was a notorious Rebell: which letters he sent to the said Erle whoe vpon view of them said hee would hang him the said Donoghoe as this deponent was tould: Howbeit as this deponent thinketh the said Donoghoe was by the said Garrett Moore and Nicholas Harbert or thone of them, conveyed away: Philippe Bigo Jur vt supra Decimo Maij 1643 Joh Watson: John Sterne

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William Hammond

19 The Deposition of William Hamond Clerke Prebend of Killabegs in the Diocese of Tuam. & county of Galway sworne & examined deposeth & sayth Aug. 14o 1643. Who being sworne vpon the holy Evangelits deposeth that he hath lost by & since the begining of this present Rebellion in Corne, tyethes, goods etc. to the value of 180 li. sterling at the least; and in all probability is like to loose the benefite of this present harvest which will advance his losses 100 li. more & is like to loose the future proffits worth 100 li. per annum <280 li.> vntill a peace be setled And also deposeth that dureing his abode in his Maiesties fort of Galway, (from Christmas 1641 till May 1643) he obserued the Inhabitants of the Towne of Galway almost wholly to be open Rebels, amongst the which were most actiue, Sir Tho. Blake, (kild with their owne Ordinance shooting against a Pinace <A> of the Kings) Sir Val. Blake. ffrancis Blake, John Blake (& many more of that Name) Rich. Martyn (Mayor at michielmas 1642) Patricke Darcy, Olliuer oge french, George Browne, Andr Browne; Dominicke Skerrit, etc. Of the County of Galway the deponent hath observed, to be leading men in this Rebellion Morogh na Doah o flaherty Morogh na Mart o flaherty, Rickard Burke of Derry- macLaghlin, Thomas Burke of Anbally, Redmund Burke of Kilcornan ffrancis Bermingham, (heire to the Honor of Athenry) John Bermingham sonne to the Lord Bermingham; William o Shaghnessy, And though the whole Countrey (except some few that followed the Earle of clanricard) were actually rebels yet those aforenamed. seemed to the Deponent the most stirringe & are both in meanes and place the most potent in the that County He further sayth that upon the 19th of March. 1641. the Townsmen of Galway treacherously and violently surprised a shippe of about 300 tunne rideing in the Harbor, (one Rob. Clerke being master of it) and in that act murthered 4. men outright, and wounded others, one whereof dyed not long after. the sayd men of Galway tooke all the Ordinance out of the sayd shippe, & the other Armes & carryed them into Galway, & haueing pillaged the shippe wholly caryed her to new Harbor (3 miles off) where she was broken up by the [ ] countrey. He also sayth that upon the 12. of April 1642. some rogues of the Campe that then beseiged the fort of Galway came & snatcht up a poore woman (wyfe to one William Johnson, souldier in the forte, stript her, kild her, putt a with about her necke & dragd her to a pitt. Also upon the 17. of April 1642. the souldiers of the fort in a skirkmish haueing kild 2. or 3. of the Rebels that beseiged it, some rogues in the Towne, if not of the Towne, did some few howers after in Coole bloud 19 fol. 134v

20 (to agrauate their malice) kill 3. English people (one whereof was a graue ancient gentlewoman named Mrs Collins) and carryed one of their heads up & downe the streets upon a pike, to the great terror of all the English. the Towne pleaded not guilty of this fact, but thus farre they must needs be faulty, that the agents were entertained & let into the Towne by them nor did they ever after (that the deponent heard) make any enquiry after or punish these malefactors. In the moneth of July 1642, Capt. Willoughby sent out 5 troopers from the forte to tell the Inhabitants of the Con Countrey thereabouts that they might safely come with any comodities to the fort or towne, for no violence should be offered to them by any under his comaund; these troopers were <A> trayterously circumvented by the Lord Viscount Clanmorris (who had not formerly declared himselfe rebellious) and 3. of them (William Wrowlright, James Perciuall, Richard Bennet) presently hanged by the sayd Lord, not without most barbarous & inhumane agrauations of cruelty: Vpon the second of August 1642. 6. men being sent in a Boate from the fort of Galway to a Castle called Kilcolgan (that stands by the sea syde, some 6. miles from the fort) were at their landing tray- terously apprehended by Redmund Burke of Kilcornan & his adherents, and 5. of them presently hanged. William Hamond Jur 14o Augusti 1643 Edw Pigott Hen: Jones

The Deponent further sayth that he hath often heard that Dr Koally titular ArchBishop of Tuam and oneLynch <C> Warden of Galway were the most actiue incendiaries and promoters of this Rebellion. He also sayth that being in the fort of Galway, he was told by Patricke french, & John Joyce (then Prisoners in the sayd <D> forte) that Patricke Darcy and Richard Martyn Lawyers were the men that first moued the Towne of Galway to Rebellion, both by their letters from Dublin and theire instigation when they came to Galway William Hamond Jurat: vt supra Edw Pigott Hen: Jones 20 fol. 135r

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Mary Hamond

The Deposition of Mary Hamond, wyfe of William Hamond Clerke, of the Parish of Tuam in the County of Galway. sworne & examined saith That about A weeke after Christmas 1641, she sent from Tuam towards Galway 3 horse <A:> loades of goods (the remainder of what was left her & not taken away by the souldiers of Redmund Burke garrisond in Tuam) which goods were taken away by Riccard Bourks souldiers and carryed to Riccard Bourks house of Ballyn Derry some 3. miles from Tuam aforesayd, & soe by them detained. Afterwards vpon fryday the 12th of January, all the English being by the ill vsage of the aforesayd Garrison driuen from Tuam, shee being then bigge with child (within 2. or 3. dayes of the tyme she expected to be deliuered) went on horsebacke towards Galway; and at Bellclare-Tuam many Irish men mett her and putt her from her horse & much feared her. being gone a litle way further there mett her one Patricke Hyggins of Lyskevoy with his skeyne naked in his hand (in which <b:> posture he road violently towards her so soone as he espyed her) which made her (not without danger) leape from her horse as soone as he came at her, but then he for her husbands sake (as he sayd) did her noe other harme. About 2. or 3. miles further two men & a woman mett her, & tooke from her her knife, sissers & other things in her pocket, & tooke away her Apron, & were stripping her of her gowne when two men of Galway (of the Joyces) came accidentally and rescued her. A litle further two other irish men mett her & violently puld her off her horse, saying they would carry her to their ArchBishop <{D}r Koally> as a prisoner in stead of one of theirs then in the fort of Galway, but they (as she conceiues and as the Joyces told her) meant onely to draw her out of the way & stripp her). with these two men she sate in the rayne till wett to the skinne, before she was deliuered from them by one James Lally (that knew her) accidentally coming that way. Coming to Clare (4. miles from Galway) the two Joyces carryed her to an English house and left her there. where the woman of the house (Herbert Crosse his wyfe) durst not let her stay, saying that the Irish would kill her Husband for entertaining her. Whereupon (though in bad case to stirr) she went out into the street to looke for some other place to rest in, being come to the further end of Clare neere the Castle, some Irish men that saw her in Crosses house ouertooke her, & would haue forct her backe agayne, & when she durst not goe with them they puld her up and downe the street (then very durty) and one of them stroke her a very great blow on the backe with his Pike, & setting the head of the Pike to her breast thretned her 15 fol. 136v

16 that he would dash her face against the stones. Whereupon being nere the Castle where the two forenamed Joyces were, she screiched out aloud, & the sayd Joyces came out to her and after much parley were faine to giue the rogues worth a shilling in drinke to let them carry her to some place in the Towne. and goeing towards the Castle a women spake out of a window & bad them not bring her thither, soe that thus wett, dirty, weary, & bruised, she was forct to goe a good way through the dirt to a poore Irish house. where the Joyces left her & bad the man of the house take some care of her. Within two houres after she fell into violent Trauell and could get none to goe for a midwyfe but the man of the house, in whose absence, the rogue that stroke her before in the street came & tooke off her mantle which she bor rowed from her man (of which she neuer stood in more need) & putt it upon her himselfe, & sat downe by her, mocking & flowting at her. when the midwife came and affirmed she was in Trauell, yet that rogue with many more would not allow her the priuacy of that poore chamber, without either bed or fire, but stayed there by her <that> all night & the next day and night In this case she continued from fryday night till sunday mornin night about 8 or 9 of the clocke, at which tyme she was deliuered of a dead child: which she veryly beleeued was kild by the ill usage she had receiued, & want of firing etc. it being very liuely before. Being thus deliuered, the next day she was brought to Galway in a Carre & kish. Mary Hamond Jur 16o Augusti 1643 Hen: Jones Edw Pigott

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Joseph Hampton

23 A note of the losses of Joseph Hampton of Clanbowe in the County of Galway gent aged about 58 yeres sworne saith That in the begining of the present rebellion in the yeare 1641 He this deponent at Clanbow aforesaid was forcibly deprived robbed and dispoyled of A lease of the Castle and fiue quarters of land of Clanbowe for and during the naturall life of his two sonnes John & Joseph Hampton or the longer liuer and to the Allhallantide next after their decease of the survi ver ffrom Sir Henrie linch Knight & barronet deceased Sir Robert Linch Knight & Barronet, & Dame Ellis his wife, & hir ffeeffees in trust where in builds vppe in the sayd Castle in makeing six great large houses barnes & stables with fenceing & planting and orchards garden ditches drayneinge fenceinge & makeinge two [ ] vppon the riuer & of his charges of fenceing impr o veing building and makeinge twentie Couple houses vppon the lands wherin he had tenants dwelling to his cost charges & losses of...........500 li. sterling [fur]ther saith that about Christmas 1641 I the deponent was sent for by some of their Sir Robert Linch his tenants 2 miles from his house to drawe him forth of hisy Castle. when presentlie after came two of Sir Roberts boyes that I the deponent had brought vppe a long time: and desired hism y Daughters & seruants to oppen the Castle door which done they stayed in the door not suffering it to be shutt vntill <A> Capt Morris linch Sir Robert b rother Came accompanied with 18teene of Sir Roberts tennants & houshold seruants: [ ] came and tooke & kept the possession of the sayd Castle. w ith pillfering & stealeing awaye all that was in it. nothing but Calledge Calli nge for such meat & drinke as would please their humours or they would as they said string him & his [ ] family out at the Castle windowes. Thus they continewed a fortnight in stealeing eateing drinkeing & Robbeing vntill in the and end they left nothing for my the self deponent & hism y eight children but Contineweall feare & terror of their liues when came came Sir Robert linch & told me the deponent that if he would let him haue all my his the deponents Corne abroad in stacke in and about the Castle which I he had beene carryeing it in two or three dayes (or did thinkeing to wall vpp the doares the next day before morris lunch came when I the deponent had gott in a good part of hism y Corne. but they prevented him) and all hismy corne in the barnes as his man would sett downe: he would Conduct him the deponent & his children safe to the fortt otherwise he would leaue me them to Mr <C> Riccard & Tho: Burckes mercielesse souldyers that had lien fiue dayes in wait for me the deponent vppon which rather then I the deponent would be a pray to them Hee was forced to lett him haue all hisy Corne (at his mans sayeing & price vizt for ix or tenne pounds to carry him awaye) that was worth aboue 100 Marke besides all [ ] readie to be sowen & some sowen & followes for wheate & Corne, & pease Readie to be sowen to the valewe of.........................................................................................................20 li. more Besides 30 23 fol. 138v

(text, apart from page numbers, is upside down) 24 thirtie horses Mares and Colts & a saddle gelding worth 80 li. hey and turfe x li.: threescore head of English Cowes worth 140 li. thirty nyne horses for which the deponent recevd ij li. 10 s. where they were were worth 20 li., corne sowed 30 li. Householdstuff worth 50 li. and in mortgage money vpon Climlenan ffive Powndes His whole losse by meanes of the Rebellion amounting to nyne hundred and fiue powndes ster: And this deponent further sayth That Elizabeth Harding widow the relict of John Harding minister of Kiltarmer (she being the deponents daughter) was alsoe by meanes of the present Rebellion depriued & forceibly dispoyled of her & her said husbands Corne Cowes turf hay books specialties howsholdstuff horses & other goods worth CClxxxv li. ster: And further saith That the parties hereafter mencioned haue bin great actors & guilty of the present Rebellion in carrying armes partakeing with counselling assisting & helping one another and other Rebells therein and in the comitting and perpetrateing of divers outrages & cruelties vpon and against his Maiesties lojall subjects vizt and in the beseegeing of his Maiesties fort of Galway & of his maiesties subiects that held & kept the same vizt Tho: lord viscount Clanmorrice: Redmond & Tho: Bourk <A> the sonns of Edmund Bourke Mc an Erle Esquire Cozen germaine to the good Erle of Clanrickard: and Kataline wiffe of the said Edmund (she being a Common robber of & spojler of the protestants both by the high way and elswhere, Thomas Bourk mc Riccard of Anbally Esquire Rickard mc Shane Burke of Dermot mc Loughlin Esquire John Mc Vllick Bourk Esquire Morroghoe Doe of Aghneneure Esquire Morroghoe Mart of the Arkonnos Esquire, Teige oge ô fflaherty of the same Esquire William ô Shaghnessy of in the territory of Clanrickard. Esquire Morrice Linch fitz Henry brother of Sir Robert Linch knight Sir valentyne Blake Knight of Knockmoy all of the County of Galway and all of them Captains and <C> Comanders of Rebells: Sir Dominick Browne Knight Sir Robert Linch Knight Sir Tho: Blake Knighte, whoe was slaine as he was giveing fyre to a peece of ordinance against the Kings pinnace: which peece being ouercharged burst & soe killd him and divers others: ffrancis Blake brother to the said Tho: & sonn to Sir Valentine Blake <D> Knighte Patrick Darcy Esquire a lawyere Richard Martin Esquire a lawyere Geffrey Browne a lawyere eldest sonn to Sir Dominick Browne Knighte Patrick oge Kervan eldest sonn to Andrew Kervan Esquire Oliver ffrench Merchant Martin Galdre Linch Merchant all of the 24 fol. 139r

25 <A> towne of Galway aforesaid John ô Maddin of Clare in the said County of Galway Esquire Cogh ô Maddin his sonn and arch vallanous Robber and a Rebell: Captain Laghlin ô Kelly of Mullagh in the same County Esquire a Comander of Rebells: & many others that he cannot name <Dr J: Mr B:> Joseph Hampton Jur viijo Ja n m arcij 1643 Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton.

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Julian Johnson the Relict of John Johnson Cleark Preacher of gods word parson of Athenry & Donmoore in the County of Galway sworne and examined saith That since the present Rebellion began in this kingdome vizt a little before Christmas 1641: Her said husband (then alive) and shee were at Athenry aforesaid robbed and dispojled of their meanes goods & chattells & expelled from there meanes there to their losse of one thowsand six hundred fifty five <A> powndes ster By and by the meanes of the Lord Clanmorris whoe with his souldjers at first came in a fawning and seemeing faire manner (as a man seeming to partake with the right honorable Earle of Clanrickard) came into their howse there, & by his promisses of Loyalty to his Maiesty & in love to the her husband & her husband was kyndly entertained: but when he by insinuation had discouered & searched out where all their goods were there, he then discouered his former dissimulacion & treachery & deprived them of all their said goods there of the value aforesaid: But before that tyme vizt about the begining of November 1641 her said husband & shee were alsoe forceibly deprived robbed and dispojled at Corruddy in the County of Leitrim & in places thereabouts of their other their goods & chattells worth 760 li. ster By the treacherous Rebell Owen ô <B:> Quillan their Bayliff & receiver of rents there & others whose names they cannot expresse, And afterwards her said husband & shee forsakeing both those Counties for saffty retyred to the Island called the Inch in the Kings County to the howse of Captaine Robert Smith and stayd there about 5 weeks. And then her said husband & her eldest sonn and one Mr Baxter a minister and the said Captain Smith & 20 more protestants of their <20> company being in a skirmish all slaine by the sept of the Moloys & their souldjers: shee this deponent afterwards was by the same Rebells robbed at the said Captain Smiths howse of goods & chattells worth 241 li. more And then and there the said Captaine Smiths wiffe was alsoe robbed of all their her goods and she & the deponent after for seuerall dayes restrained among with those Rebells & were constrained to eate & drinck <C:> amongst them that had murthered their husbands And saith that Pawle 27 fol. 140v

28 o Moloy a frier was the principall man in that slaughter & robbery whoe quickly after in a triumphing & reioyceing manner sayd It was a brave sport to see the yong men (meaning some of the yong English then slaine) defending themselues on euery syde & their twoe eyes burning in their heades: And then alsoe those Rebells robbed her of her clothes And that frier (thoughe often required) would giue her none of her clothes againe becawse as he said, and as in deed was true, she was a ministers wiffe And then all the protestants there were turned out of the Island stripped of all they had, & denyd of that their meate and provision which the Rebells had surprised, almost surfeited on and then had throwne vpon dunghill: And although this deponent and the said Captains Smiths wiffe escaped away & lived, yet many of the rest (they being in all about 140) being turned out naked without their cloths dyed of hunger & starveing. And the deponent <A> being after her comeing from the Island brought to one John mc ffarrells howse she heard some of the cruell Rebell souldjers then and there bragg and boast of the brave sport he had then had by putting fyre to the straw which a stript English woman had tyed about her, and how bravely the fyre then made the English Jade dance: But before they came out of the said Island the said mris Smith and this deponent deliuered vnto one Cosny Maloy & John mc ffarrell 2 Rebells vpon thier promisse to keepe them for them) ix li. of hers as shee said, & 5 li. of the deponents and 5 g o ld rings of hers 6 of the & 9 rings & a Jewell of the deponents: of which noe restitucion hath bin had, And the deponent afterwards with much difficulty & after many miseryes endured comeing to dublin was there deprived & dispo s spoyled of goods rents & benefite of howsing of the value, and to her losse of CCxx li. ster Soe as her whole losse by meanes of the Rebellion amounteth <2876 li.> to the summe of twoe thowsand eighe hundred three score & 28 fol. 141r

29 sixteene powndes terling att the least, where now shee is in great want & misery. Her former suffrings being too many to relate: & she charged with nyne small children: Whoe for a yere haue bin manteined by the right honorable the Erle of Clanrickird Captain Chidley Coote and Captaine Parsons out of their meere worthy bounty and charitie Julian Johnson Jur 8o febr 1643 Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton

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35 William Lincolne of the towne and County of Galway Maltster sworne and examined sayth That in the begining of the presente Rebellion That is to say about the fyft day of November 1641 This deponent being an inhabitant in Galway was then and there robbed and dispojled of his howsholdgoods apparell horses bondes and other things and had his Malthowse burnd to his losse & damage of 200 li. ster: And at <A:> tymes since this by the gran Rebell Captain Bourk of Err Connaght & his rebellious souldjers whose names he knoweth not, And this deponent since the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof hath bin at seuerall places within the County of Monoghan robbed & depriued of Cowes oxen and horses plowes plow harnesse & other thinges worth 80 li. more And this deponent alsoe was at Glesenevin in the county of dublin by meanes of the Rebellion was about christmas 1641 deprived & dispojled of a trunck of lynnen and wollen bedding lynnen & other thinges worth xv li. more. His losses in all amounting to 295 li. ster, but by whom those goods in the seuerall Counties of Monoghan and Dublin were taken away he cannott tell for that he was at Galway when he was lost the same, And further saith That at the tyme that he was soe robbed at Galway hee for was putt in prison surprised there at Galway by those Rebells and carried away with them into the mountaines & there kept prisoner 3 dayes vntill <B:> that one Robert Noone an Irish fisherman (to whom the deponent had done former curtesies) came and begged both his life & liberty: and then the deponent for future safty betooke himself to the fort of Galway where he serued as a souldjer under the Comand of Captain Anthony Willoughby whoe comanded the same fort for and vnder his Majesty vntill about Midsomer 1643 that the same was surrendred vpon quarter: And further saith that whilest this deponent was at Galway aforesaid the souldjers of the said Captain Bourk moste <C:> barbarously cutt off the head of Mr John ffox an English man and a protestant, and kicked his head lyke a footeball in the streets and they then and there murthered the said Mr ffoxes wiffe & twoe English women more, whereof one was sister to Lieutenant Stapleton: & those and others Rebells of Galway alsoe murthered on shipboard 2 saylers & one souldier all English men and they alsoe murthered diuers others of thenglish whom he cannott name, and robbed them of all their goods And this deponent further sayth that generally all the irish papists of the towne of Galway 35 fol. 142v

36 (Stephen More Linch and Nicholas More Linch & the sonns of the said Nicholas excepted) were all in Rebellion and all that were able carried Armes against his Maiesty & the protestant subjects & layd and manteined siege for a long time vnto the said fort, which fort they haue since (as this deponent hath credibly heard) pulled downe and quite demolished And saith that Mr Martin and Mr Darcy the lawyeres <A> & Sir Tho: Blake were the principall advisers abetters and actors <of> in the Rebellion & siege at Galway aforesaid <Dr J H B> Signum predicti [mark] willelmi Lincolne Jur 14o Jan: 1643 Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton

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37 Michaell Smith Archdeacon of Clonfert in the County of Galway aged fiftie fiue yeres or thereabouts sworne and examined sayth That since the begining of the present Rebellion that is to say a little before Christmas 1641 One John Madden of <A> Longford in the said County of Galway Esquire & a great company of his Rebellious servants forceibly entered vpon the deponents farme at Sragh in the same County And then and there by force and armes seazed vpon this d One thowsand & threescore wethers & above of this deponents worth 500 li., & foure or five eight or tenn english Cowes and a bull of English breed and some horses Mares and Colts whose numbers he Knoweth not: And about the same tyme <B:> one MrButler nere Agheram in the same County gent And one Laughlin ô Kelly & Brian ô Kelly both of Aghram aforsaid gentlemen and divers other Rebellious persons forceibly robbed and despojled him of one thowsand ewes and above & three hundred wethers & vpwards & about sixscore or sevenscore english Cowes & some horses and Mares all worth One thowsand powndes & aboue And this deponent about the same tyme and afterwards was since hath bin by the Rebells in the said County forcibly expelled deprived & despojled of more of his sheepe Cattle horses Mares Colts Corne howsholdgoods provition benefite of horses tythes: And of the possession rents & proffits of his reall estate worth debts and other meanes goods & chattells of the value and to his losse of nyne thowsand twoe hundred pownds at the least: And this deponent is like to be deprived of the future proffitts of his lands tythes & temporall estate clerely worth seven hundred pownds per annum & 100 li. per annum in church liveings vntill a peace be setled and that they returne to their former value: And this deponent for safftie of his liff fled away to the fort of Galway which (as he hath credibly heard is since quite demolished wasted & spojled by the Rebells Michaell Smyth Jur 14o ffebr 16 ffebr Januarij 1643 Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton 37 fol. 143v

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41 Daniel Reardan of Tuame in the Countie of Galway Clearke sworne and examined, deposeth and saith, that he lost by this Rebellion in bookes and Church=meanes, money and Gold, Cloathes, and household stuffe with two horses, the value of seavenscore pounds ster: att the least: ffurther he saith that the most parte of the aboue summe hee lost by Pierse ffitz Gerrald alias called McThomas in Castle= <A> dermott who pillagded his studie burnt the most parte of his bookes and gaue some of them to the fryers, broke open his truncke, distributed his Cloathes to his verie shooes and stockens to some of his souldiers. Item he saith, that the said Pierse caused a poore Irishman to be hangd who had some relation to one of the Greymes uppon suspicition to be a spie. Item he sayth that some of Capt: Gerrald fizt Ger: mc Morish of Narraghbegg and of McTho: his souldiers, did first wound, stabt And afterwards did hang a poore English woman in betwixt two Carres which Came forth from Catherloe she being siklie & begging for fiue dayes before in Castledermott Daniel Reardan Jur 18o May 1643 John Sterne Edw Pigott

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53 William Shuttleworth of Cloghonover in the County of Galway gent sworne & examined on the part and behalf of William Callow of Cloghonover aforesaid in the said County of Galway gentleman sworne & examined deposeth and sayth concerning his losses & alsoe concerning his Knowledge concerning of the present Rebellion deposeth & sayth That since the begining of the same present Rebellion vizt the xviijth of december 1641 and by meanes thereof the Rebells Anthony Linch of Cloghonover <A:> aforesaid gent Redmund Mc Vllick Bourk of Ballinduffe in the same County gentleman John Mc Vllick Bourk of the same gentleman Rickard mc David Bourk of nere Cloghonover gent and Vllick mc Redmond Bourk of nere Cloghonover aforesaid and divers others their Rebellious followers souldjers and partakers did at Cloghonover aforesaid forceibly & Rebelliously deprive robb and dispojle him the deponent said William Shuttleworth Callow of his goodes chattells & meanes consisting of old sheepe Lambes Cowes and other Cattle Corne hay garrons housholdstuffe, and the benefite and value of his howsing and farme there Being all of the value, & to his Losse of five hundred fowrscore and fowre Pownds ster Jur 13o Novembris 1643 Will: Shutleworthe

And this deponent further sayth That the Arch Rebell the Lord of Clanmorris since the begining of this Rebellion, and his bloudy & wicked souldjers hanged to death divers of the English protestants and amongst the rest hanged one Rich Adam Nowell gent Thomas Gill & Andrew Gill & [ ] a little boy & almost cutt off his the said Adam Nowells head afterwards, and then cawsed him to be buried vnder the gallowes becawse he would not turne to Masse, & he & his souldjers alsoe hanged one Sergeant Rowl Rowleright gent James Percivall gent & Richard Bennett being all souldjers for his Maiesty of the fort of Galway: And the said Lord of Clanmorris alsoe manteined and had a troupe of horse. & a Company of foote souldjers all Rebells against his Maiesty Will. Shutleworthe Jur vt supra Randall: Adams: Edw Pigott 53 fol. 145v

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after this Examinant together with the said Robert Clarke went from the fort to the towne of Galway: vpon whose comeing there was a Court of assembly called where were present the Maior Adermen and burgesses of the towne or the <A> greater part of them, and likewise Mr Patrick Darcy & Mr Martin Lawyeres Before whom this Examinant and the said Robert Clark were called And this Examinant shewing the said warrant before the said assembly, the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin being present, They the said Mr Darcy & Mr Martin Did there publickly declare that it was treason in this Examinant and the said Clark to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by virtue of the said warrant (they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties subjects) And therevpon comitted both of them to the towne gaole of Galway where they remained for the space of 10 or 12 dayes following vntil they were released by the Erle of Clanrickard, And this Examinant further saith That the said Erle of Clanrickard did make an end of the said differences betweene the merchant of the said shipp & the said Robert Clarke, and did assure the said Clarke that all things shold be fairly carried But the said Erle Leaving the said towne of Galway the said Dominick Keghran factor to the said Tho: Linch with divers others, (by the direction of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin (as this examinant verely beleeveth went aboard the said shipp & carrjed with them seuerall boats, vpon pretence to vnlade the salt, And vpon their comeing to the said shipp (the said Clark being at the fort, and some of his men to out of the ship to fetche Ballast) entered the said ship and killd the Masters Mate and twoe or 3 more of the men aboard the said shipp and wounded seuerall others there, & soe possessed themselues wholly of the said shipp, being of the burden of three hundred tun or thereabouts, And likewise tooke out of the said shipp, about tenn peece of ordinance, which were landed presently, and planted against his Maiesties fort And further this Examinant saith That in the begining of the Rebellion, vntill such tyme as the said Mr Darcie and Mr Martin came to the towne of Galway, they within the said fort were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their moneys But after the comeing of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin to the said towne, the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght, to come into the said towne, whoe robbed this examinant and the English Inhabitants within the said towne and Killd & murthered seuerall of them: Amongst which they cut off the heads of one John Fox & 58 fol. 147r

91 59 & his wiffe, and murthered one Mris Collins as she was kneeling at her prayers, And as this examinant hath heard, after the said murders were comitted the Irish tumbled the heads of the heads of the said ffox & his wiffe about the streets, And further saith That at althoughe the said people of Err Connaght had robbed and murthered the English as aforesaid: yet neither the Maior or Aldermen of Galway aforesaid or the said Darcy <A> or Martin did any way punish the offenders, but rather abetted and manteined them in their barbarous cruelties And this Examinant further saith That after, by direction & helpe of the towne of Galway the said fort was s beseiged, And the townsmen of Galway hyred the Cuntry to doe the same Soe that the fort was inforced to yeild about the xxvth of June 1643: Wherevpon this Examinant went into the towne of Galway to demand some of his goods according to the quarter given them, And in the meane time the shipping being in the harbour went away & left this examinant behynd Soe as he was inforced to get a Convoy to Bonrattee to the Erle of Thomond, And being there one Dunn servant of Sir Roger ô Shafnusy, related to the Erle of Thomond and him this Examinant, that he sawe the said Richard Martin whoe was then Major of Galway, vpon a Sunday morning with a pick ax in his hand setting people on work to domolish & pull downe the fort of Galway John Turner Jurat. 23. Martij. 1643. Hen: Jones Edw Pigott

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Thomas Bagworth

Thomas Bagworth of the towne of Tuam in the County of Galwaie Inhoulder, sworne & examined deposeth and sayth That since the begining of the present Rebellion that is say in the begining of the month of december 1641 & since Hee this deponent at Tuam aforesaid & in Galway, and in places thereabouts, was by force & armes deprived bereft robbed and dispoyled of his meanes goods and chattells Consisting of the possession benefite and proffitts of his farmes, his beasts Cattle sheepe howsholdgoods provition vtensills ready money yarne due debts one Mare & other thinges of the value and to his losse & damage of ffowre hundred seventy three powndes twelve shillinges vj d. ster By and by the meanes of <A> the Rebells Captain Redmond Bourk of Kilcorman in the said County of Galway: & Teige Magilleley William Magilleley thelder & Connor Magilleley. William Magilleley the yonger & others whoe were all the souldjers of the said Captain Redmond Bourk but the names of the rest of the souldjrs the deponent cannot expresse: & by other Rebellious souldjers whose names are alsoe vnknowne to the deponent And alsoe saith That the said Captain Redmond Bourk was at the first trusted & authorished by the Right honorable the Erle of Clanrickard to Raise and Comand a Company of souldjers, & hadd & received his Maiesties Armes & Amunition from the fort of Galway & elswhere for those souldjers and hee billetted them vpon and amongst the English in Tuam aforesaid & other places thereabouts: And thenglish as long as they could manteined them & lived amongst them for some tyme & especially soe long as they were able to furnish them with manteinance But when they wanted mony and provision from them: then those souldjers seased on their remaining goods: & th then turned and declared themselues to be enemyes to the English, & to be flatly against them In soe= 344 fol. 148v

345 Insoemuch as both this deponent, his family, & the rest of English thereabouts were inforced for saffty of their lives, to fly away to Galway and other places soe deprived and dispojld of their goodes: And further saith that the other parties that this deponent knoweth to be actors in the present Rebellion and to partake with the irish Rebells against the English are <A:> theis that follow vizt Lawrence a Trey of Tuam aforesaid gent Lawghlen [ ] ô Connor of the same merchant, whoe nowe keepeth an Inn in this deponents said howse in Tuam aforesaid Nicholas Kerwin and Oliver Kirwin of the same Merchantes MrMartin a Counsellor at Law & now Maior of Galway: whoe promissed to releeve the fort there: But when he came to bee Major proved as badd or worse as then any other Rebell & would not releeve nor partake with them of the fforte, Nicholas Blake of Kiltulloge in the same County Esquire: Sir Valentine Blake of Galway aforesaid Knight and Sir Tho: Blake knighte his father, whoe was slaine by the breaking of a great gun as it was discharged against one of his Maiesties shipps Dominick Kirrowin of the same Merchant James Linch of the same Merchant a very cruell Rebell: Martin Patrick Darcy of the same a lawyere <C:> Vllick Carraghe Bourk of Clanmore in the same County gent a notorious wicked and cruell Rebell: Captaine Kataline Bourk of Kilkorman aforesaid in the County of Galway whoe robbed and pilladged divers of the English in Tuam aforesaid & in other places thereabouts: William Bourk her sonn a Lieutenant amongst the Rebells: & Hugh Kelly of Levally in the County of Gallway gent Thomas Bagworth Jur 4to die Sept: 1643 Edw Pigott Hen: Brereton

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2139 The names of Wittnesses living at or neare Gallway that are to be examined against Patrick Darcye and others concerning Murthers comitted in or neare Gallway June the late wife of John Sheely of Gallway John Morgan of Killcolgan gent William Hamond Clarke <A> William Lincolne of Gallway Maulster Hales the daughter of Thomas Hales of Gallway John Allen Clonbow living with Sir Roberte Linch Edmond mcWilliam Bourke of Castle Crevin neare Clanboe Martin Brabazon Linch nowe Major of Gallway Capt Hugh Massy a Commander as is Conceiued either vnder Colonel Chedly Coote or some of his brothers MrsStanton of Gallway widdow Mr Walter Martin of Gallway ffeltmaker and his mother and mother in Lawe. Erriell o Boile of Dum Griffith in the county of Gallway fol. 150v

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Information of Michaell Smyth

3732 The examinacion of Michaell Smyth Archdeacon of Clonfort taken before me Sir William Ryves knight one of his Maiesties Justices of his highnes Court of Kinges Bench in Ireland the eleventh day of March 1643 The said examinate (beinge duly sworne) saieth that he was present in the Towne of Galway when A Shipp of <A> one Robert Clarkes was surprised & taken by Dominicke Keagharan & other Marchants of the Towne of Galway & that three of the men which did belonge to the said Shipp were slaine & Murthered by the said Keaghran & those which accompanied hym And further this Exam{inate} saieth that about the month of Aprill 1642, he this examinate together with many other English in the said towne of Galway were inforced to subscribe to A certificate (purportinge the good demeanour & carriage of the townsmen of Galway towardes this examinate & the rest of the English protestants there) Which if this examinate had refused to doe (he veryly beleueth some suddaine hurt or mischeife wold haue bene done vnto hym And further saieth that presently after the subscription to the said certificate the Irish in the said towne of Galway did make an assault vpon this examinates house & did Robb & murther John ffox & his wife mrs Collins the sonne of one ffisher & others English protestants which the said Maior & Aldermen of Galway suffred to passe vnpunished. Michaell Smyth Wm: Ryves fol. 151v

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1306 The examinacion of John Turner gent taken vpon oath before me Sir Samuell Mayartt Knight one of his Maiesties Justices of his highnes Court Common pleas in Ireland & one of his Maiesties Justices of peace of the seuerall Counties of Dublin & Galway & of the other Counties within the Realme of Ireland, this seaventh day of March 1643 The said examinante saieth that about the begginnynge of November 1641 he then & longe before beinge an Inhabitant <A> within the Towne of Galway in the Kingdome of Ireland & imploied as Clarke of the store for his Maiesties ffort neere Galway & also as Surveior of his Maiesties Customes & Revenewes of the said Port, A shipp belonginge to the Cittie of London (whereof one Robert Clarke was master was then ridinge in the said harbour of Galway) & freighted for ffrance by Thomas Linch fitz Andrewe A Marchant of Galway), with hides Tallowe & other Comodities for which Custome was Paied And this examinante saieth that he beinge informed that thirtie bagges of Wooll of Irish English groweth were privately by night; by the direccion of Thomas Linch aforsaid, putt aboard the said Shipp he this examinante together with George Ratcliffe then Collector of the Customes of the said port & George Stanton then Searcher of the said port, did goe aboard the said Shipp & vpon search found the said wooll which was then seised vpon to his Maiesties vse by this examinante & the said Collector & Searcher & they endeuouringe to bringe the same to land, & to that intent hauinge boates attendinge The said Thomas Linch & other Marchants of Galway wold not suffer this examinante to take the said Wooll out of the said Shipp, & presently sett vpp sayle <C> & the said Shipp went for ffraunce, (as this examinante veryly beleuet{h} And this examinante further saieth that about three monthes after the said Shipp came backe to the said Harbour laded with salt & other Marchandise amongst which were A good quantitie of powder & seuerall Armes of which the said Robert Clarke gaue notice to Captaine Anthony Willoughby & this examinante) Wherevpon this examinante hauinge formerly Receiued A warrant from the then Lord Justices & Councell of Ireland & likewise from the Earle of Clanricard for the takinge fol. 155v

1307 <E> takinge of such. Armes & Ammunition as shold be brought into that part, into his Maiesties Storehouse for the said ffort there to be disposed for the defence of the said ffort & contry, he this examinate by vertue of the said warrant did endeuour to haue the said Armes & Ammuntion for the vse of his Maiesties said ffort but was hindred by the said Thomas Linch' & one Dominicke Linch o Keaghran his factor And presently afterwardes this examinante together with the said Robert Clarke went from the ffort of Galway to the Towne of Galway vpon whose Commynge there was A Court of Assembly called were where were present the Maior <f> Aldermen & Burgesses of the said Towne or the greater parte of them & likewise mr Patricke Darcy & mr Richard Martin Lawyers, before whome this examinante & the said Robert Clarke were called & this examinante shewinge the said Warrant before the said Assembly the said mr Darcy & mr Martin beinge present they the said mr Darcy & mr Martin did there publiquely declare that it was Treason in this examinante & the said Robert Clarke to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by vertue of the said Warrant (they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties Subiects) & therevpon Committed both of them to the towne Gaole of Galway where they remained by the space of tenne or Twelue dayes folowinge Vntill they were released, by the Earle of Clanricard And this examinante further saieth that the said Earle of Clanricard did make an end of the differences betwene the Marchant of the said Shipp & the said Robert Clarke & did assure the said Clarke that all thinges shold be fairely carried But the said Earle leavinge the said towne of Galway the [ ] <G> said Dominicke Keaghran factor to the said Thomas Linch with diuerse others (by the direccion of the said Mr Darcy & mr Martin as this examinante veryly beleueth) went aboard the said Shipp & carried with them seuerall boates vpon pretence to vnlade the Salt And vpon their Commynge to the said Shipp (the said Clarke beinge att the ffort & some of his men beinge gone out of the said Shipp) to fetch ballace) entred the said Shipp & killed the Masters Mate & twoe or three more of the men aboard the said Shipp & wounded seuerall others there, & so possessed themselues wholly of the said Shipp beinge of the burthen of 300 Tunn or there abouts & likewise tooke out of the said Shipp about [ ] tenne peeces of Ordinance which were landed presently & planted against his Maiesties ffort And further this examinante saieth that att the begynnynge of the Rebellion (vntill such tyme as the said mr fol. 156r

1308 <H> Mr Darcy & mr Martin came to the towne of Gallway) they within the ffort had free traffique with the towne of Gallway & were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their monyes But after the comynge of the said mr Darcy & mr Martin to the said Towne the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght to come into the said towne who robbed this examinante & the English Inhabitants within the said towne & killed & murthered seuerall of them amongst which they Cutt of the heades of one John ffox & his wife & murthered one mrs Collins as she was kneelinge att her praiers And (as this examinante def t hath heard after the said Murders were committed the Irish tumbled the heades of the said ffox & his Wife about the streetes) And further saieth that (although the said people of Err Connagh had robbed & murthered the English as aforsaid yett neither the Maior or Aldermen of Gallway aforsaid or the said Darcy or Martyn did any f wayes punish the offenders but rather abetted & maynteined them in their barbarous Cruelties, And this examinate further saieth that [ ] after by direccion & helpe of the towne of Galway the said ffort was beseiged & the townsmen of Galway hired the Contry to doe the same So that the ffort was enforced to yeild about the twoe & twe fiue & twentith of June 1643 wherevpon this examinante Went into the towne of Galway to demaund some of his goodes accordinge to the quarter giuen them And in the meane tyme the shippinge beinge in the harbour went away & left this examinante behinde so that he was enforced to gett A convey to Bonrattee to the Earle of Thomond And beinge there one Donne A man of Sir Roger of O Shafenes related to the Earle of Thomond & this examinante <J> that he saw the said Richard Martin which was then Maior of Galway vpon A Sonday Mornynge with A Pyx axe in his hand settinge people A worke to dimolish & pull downe the said ffort of Galway John Turnor Sa: Mayart fol. 156v

1309

The examinacion of mr John Turner Concerning the Rebells of Gallway

Samuel Mayart

Deposition of Adam Beale

83 Adam Beale of Castlegare in the County of Galway gent sworne & examined deposeth and sayth: That since the begining of the present rebellion and by meanes thereof Hee this deponent was & still is deprived robbed and dispojled of his goods chattells & estate consisting of sheepe Cattle horses Mares Colts Corne haie howsholdstuffe due debts the profitts and benefite of his farme and other thinges of the value & to his present Loss of One thowsand One hundred seventy twoe powndes sterling <D J: Mr P> Jur xjo Nov: 1643 Hen: Jones Edw Pigott fol. 157v

84

{ } Nov: 1643 Intw

Edward Piggott Henry Jones

Oliver Smyth

3 1302 The Examinacion of Oliver Smyth taken vpon oath before me Sir William Ryves knight one of his Maiesties Justices of his highnes Courte of Kings Bench of Ireland this twelfe day of March 1643 The said Examinante sayth that at the begynnynge of this rebellion he did liue within the towne of Galway and that vntill the comming of Mr Patricke Darcy and Mr Richard Martin' to the said <A> towne of Galway which as this Examinante verely beleueth was about January 1641, this Examinante and all the other English within the said towne did liue quietly and enioyed theire estats, and had the libertie to goe to the Church, and to enioye the Protestant Religion, but after theire Commynge to the said towne the Inhi Inhabitants and townsmen of Galway which were the Cheife Governors of the said towne did send for the English Iri sh people of Erre Connagh as they themselues related whoe dayly did robb and murther the English and particulerly vppon the Sonday after Easter followinge within the said towne of Galway John ffox and his wife, one Mrs Collins and a Carpenter of Mr Clearkes Shipp were cruelly murthered by the Irish and further saith that after the said John ffox was Murthered, they cutt of his head and vppon a Pike did carrye the same about the streets of the said towne, and after tumbled it aboute the towne said streets. And this Examinante further sayth that about our Lady day in Lent followinge after January 1641 this Examinante with the rest of the English protestants of the said towne were called before Mr Linch Walter Linch <C> then Maior of Galway and the Councell of eight which was then latly there establised (Att which Councell [ ] Sir valentine Blake Patricke Darcy Richard Martin Sir Dominicke Browne and Andrewe Browne fitz Oliver were present and as this Examinante beleeveth were of the said Councell) and there they did enforce this Examinante to take his Corporall oath to be true to them and to the said towne, which if this Examinante had refused he beleeveth some Mischeife would haue bene done vnto him. Oliver Smyth William Ryves fol. 158v

1303 fol. 159r

1304 fol. 159v

1305

The examinacion of Oliver Smyth of Galway rec 15 Marcij 1643

Galway

William Ryves

Thomas Martyn of Galway

The Examinacion of Thomas Martin <A> of Gallway merchant taken before vs Commissioners for administracion of Justice in the precinct of Gallway. The 7th of December 1652 Being examined whether hee was aboard the Captain Clarkes ship when his men wer murthered there, hee saith hee was, and that hee did not goe aboard with those that surprized the ship but went in a boate of his owne after they <A> wer aboard, and further saith that hee went thither to fetch some salt which hee had bought before from the ship, and denyeth that hee knew any thing of their intencions but that while hee was on the decque saluteing such as hee mett there hee heard the noise of the surprize Being examined whether hee saw the boate which Kirovan went in to surprize the said ship before it sett [ ] out, hee saith hee for ought hee knows hee did see the boate before, but that hee did not see it setting out or know of it or of any preparacion made for it, or of any armes that wer sett aboard the boate, & that hee knew nothing of the setting out of the boate till hee saw it at the ship side Being examined how whither hee saw the murther fol. 160v

1279 committed hee saith hee did not, but that fo{r} fear of the surprizers hee fled with [ some ] {forty?} eight more into the forecastle & mainteyned <A> it against them vntill they threatened to fire a peice of Ordnance that was planted against the forecastle, & then vppon promise of good condicions. they came out. Hee saith that hee was with the Chirurgion on the decque when the vproar began, & on a sudden they fell on the Chirurgion who leapt downe into the hould Hee saith hee doth not remember the names of those that acted in the murther but Stephen Lynch & walter Martin, Brian Roe & {Murogh} More Hee saith that when the sur Chirurgion & hee was on the decque when the vproare began & a man came with his sceane to fall on his the Chirurgion & this examinant pushed him away & that the Chirurgion men jumpt into the hould & this examinant saw him no more th vntill after they had made the aggreement. Hee saith hee had no armes about him, no{t} soe much as A dagger Being againe examined vppon the occasion one present who testified that hee had told him fol. 161r

1280 before that hee had a sceane dagger about him hee confesseth that hee had a sceane dagger & that hee did not draw it vntill after the aggreement was made when they would have fallen vppon thos that wer in the forecastle notwithstanding the aggreement & hee cutt a Man in the forehead therwith hee doth not remember the mans name

Mr Thomas Martyn did Make this Confession before us December the [7]th though he denyed to sett his hand to us it Cha: Coote: Peter: Stubber Robert Clarke fol. 161v

1281

The Examination of Thomas Martyn of Gall: concearneinge the murther of Captain Clarkes men in the begininge of the war & Comitted to the Goale of Gallway: 7th Dec: 1652

Gallway

4CD

Charles Coote Peter Stubber Robert Clark

Andrew Darcy

The Examinacion off Andrew Darcy Esquire off Mace in the County of Golloway Taken on oath beffore Charles Holcraft and John Eyre Comisioners of R e venue of the Precinct at Golloway at Tuam the 12th off November 1652 Sayeth that in Springe Tyme 1641 There was a Counsell off eight men Constituted in open Court by the Mayor Aldermen and ffremen of Golloway at a Towsall Conveaned by the <A> instigacion off Richard oge Martin and John Blake fize Robert with an intent to rebell against the goverment of of the English Nacion as afterwards appeares viz. Sir Robert Lynch Barronet, ffrancis Blake 2d sone to Sir Vallintine Blake after made Generall (by the sayd Counsell) off the aiacent Irish fforces John Blake fize Nicholas, Andrew Browne ffiz Dominicke, John Blake fize Robert, Patricke Martin Alderman, Water Lynch then Mayor. which sayd Counsell or any ffiue off them were impowred and Comissioned ffrom the sayd Towne with Marshall Power whoe in persuance of theire sayd Comission did direct some off the inhabitants of the said Towne To buy a shipe with Ordinance intending the said Ordinance ffor the strenthning the say Towne Captain Robert Clarke' then Comaunding the sayd shipe but they not agreeing on the prisce off the sayd shipe, didthe sayd Counsell did giue order to [ ] Tho: Martin ffrancis, Walter Martin, Steephen Lynch ffize Andrew, Dominicke Kirwan and severall others to surprise the sayd shipe and ordinace which accordingly was effected principally by Dominicke Kerwan whoe had a part off the goods aboard the said shipe and vnder Culler off Goeing aboard ffor salte did with skeanes Murder two of the said Captain Clarks men all which this examinant sayeth was deposed beffore the Archbishope of Tuam himselfe and Captain Wilowby <Then Comissioners ffor Civill and Marshall goverment of The Towne and Cou[n]tyes of Golloway> (by Certayne off those that were actors in the fol. 162v

1283 <E> sayd Surprisall, being afterwards taken by the sayd Captain Willowby and Executed they being three in Number which act was afterwards made by Publike and Generall vote of the Counsell and inhabitants at a Townsall the act of the Towne, as was Towld this deponant by Sir Ric. Blake and others that were present at the sayd Townesall. and after the sayd act of Murder and surprisall the sayd Consell did list Men and beseedeged the fforte and English and like wise entred on the Kinge Customes and did associate with divers off the Irish whoe were the Murderers off severall of the English in the Towne of Golloway and in particuler John ffox a Chandler and his wife and an English gentlewoeman belongeing to the Bishope of Tuam <f> andrue oge Lynch off Ambally was allsoe an actor in the surprisall off the shipe. And: darcy

(endorsement on fol. 163r )

Charles Holcroft John Eyre

Christopher French

Mr Christover ffrench Publicke Notary of Golloway being <A> Deposed sayeth that those that surprised Captain Clarkes shipe and Murdred his men were at the tyme of that act vnder the Comand off the Councell of Eight, and he likewise heard by severall persons that some of them gaue a warrant ffor doeing the same Chr ffrench

Depositions of Andrwe Darcy and Chris: ffrench taken 12th Novem: 1652 conc. the surprize of Captain Clarkes ship fol. 163v

1285

James Linch fitz Stephen

1286 The Examination of James Linch fitz Steephen touching the seizeur <A> of Captain Clarkes ship <January the 20th 1652> the Examinant sayth that he was in the towne of Gallway when Captain Clarkes ship was seised vpon and that he knoweth Noething therof but by hearsay and Denieth to haue Carried any armes <A> to those that Did it, and sayth that he knew N ot the boatmen which went to the said ship he further saith that Sir vallentine Blake tould the Examinant that the said Sir vallentine Blake and Nickolas Bodkine weare Imployed to bargaine with Captain Clarke for his ship and that they weare allmost agreed and that Captain Clarke had borrowed time for to Resolue them of the same, and the said Sir vallentine Blake afterwards tould this Examinant that Captain Clarke had sent word that he would not sell his ship at any Rate and within A day or two after the Examinant being at Sir vallentine Blakes Chamber one thomas Linch fitz Andrew D Domnick Kerwan with three or foure More (Whom the Examinant Remembreth Not) Came into the said Sir vallentine Blakes and asked the said Sir vallentine how the buisnes wen{t} betwixt them and Captain Clark Concerning the Ship vpon which the said Sir vallentine Answered that Captain Clarke would Not parte with his Shipp and that the bargaine was broake off fol. 164v

1287 Wherevpon the afforsaid thomas Linch fitzAndrew Sayd I Can tell yow a good Way to ffasten the bargaine <C> vpon Captain Clarke ffor his ship and Sir vallentien Asked him what was that way vpon which the said thomas Linch answered that he would Imploy Men to Secure the said ship vntill the said Captain Clarke would be Glad to take Mony for the said ship then Sir vallentine asked him Whoe Weare the Men or in what maner would he Imploy them to Accomplish it the said thomas Linch Replied he would Imploy such of the Comons and young Men of the towne (Whome the Shepmen Would Not suspect) soe as the said Comons and young men should gett som thing for thier paines Where vpon the said Sir vallentine and the Examinant tould them that it was a ffooleish Attempt and the said thomas Linch Said that if he Did take it in hand he would bring it to pass then the said sir vallentine tould the said Thomas that he had Noe Monnies to giue him and that if he the said sir vallentine had any thing to Doe with the Surprisall of the said ship he would giue Mony or this Examinant as Security for [ ] to those that weare Imployed for that purpose and on the Next Morning the said Sir vallentine <D> Blake tould this Examinant that he had tould the Afforsaid thomas Linch that he would Not Medle with Imploying any Men about the said ship at all fol. 165r

1288 Whervpon the said Thomas Linch Parted with the said <E> Sir vallentine Blake and in few dayes after the Examinant heard that the afforsaid thomas Linch and Domnick Kerwan had Imployed a party for the surprisall of the said ship and had performed it and had kiled some and Wounded som of the said shipsmen and further this Examinant knoweth Not James Lynch fitz stephen Examined [by] vs Peter Stubber Robert Clarke fol. 165v

1289

Examinations Concering the takeing of Clarks ship

The examinacion of James Lynch fiz Stephen prisoner.

Peter Stubber Robert Clark

Margaret Rolricke

1314

The examinacion of Margarett Rolricke late of the towne of Galway widowe taken, vpon oath before me Sir William Ryves Knight one of his Maiesties Justices of his highnes Court of Kinges Bench in Ireland this twelfe day of March 1643 This examinante vpon her oath saieth that for fowerteene yeeres before the begynnynge of the Rebellion she lived within the towne of Galway that And that about the seaventeenth day of March in the yeere of our Lord God 1641 there was A shipp of one Captaine Clarkes which was within the harbour of Galway which was surprised & taken by Dominicke <A> Keaghran factor to Thomas Linch fitz Andrewe A Marchant of Galway & seuerall other Marchants Inhabitants of the said Towne & further saieth that the said Keaghran & the rest with hym did barbarously three of the men murther three of the men which belonged to the said Shipp which she saw e brought dead to towne & wounded others of the said Shipp one more whereof beinge A shipp s Carpenter of the said Shipp presently after died of the said woundes And this examinante further saieth that one Walter Linch was then Maior of Galway & he & the Rest of the Aldermen of the said towne had & tooke notice of the said Murther yett neuer punished the said offenders but rather cherished & abetted them And further this examinante saieth that vpon the Sonday after Easter then next folowinge The Irish within the said towne did disarme disarme all the English Inhabitants there & after the doinge thereof they did robb this examinante of all her substance & estate & in this examinante house did cruelly murther one mrs Collins as she was kneelinge att her praiers in this examinantes h ouse And further saieth that this Examinante & the rest of the English were not intervpted in their estates vntill such tyme as mr Patricke Darcy & mr Richard Martin did come to the said towne (after whose commynge) the Irish people of Err Connagh were sent for into the said towne & by dayly did Robb & spoile the English And further saieth that she did seuerall tymes heare [ ] Murtagh O fflartye & others of the Irish men say that the townsmen of Galway did send for them to come to the said towne & promised them 300 li. & the pillage of all the English goodes the marke of Margarett [mark] Rolricke William Ryves fol. 166v

1315 fol. 167r

1316 fol. 167v

1317

The examinacion of Margarett Rolricke of Galway rec 15 Marcij 1643

William Ryves

John and Jane Sheeley and Margaret Rowleright

45 John Sheeley of the towne & county of of Galway Baker and Jane his wiffe Magdelin the Relict of Richard Smith Late one of the gunners of the forte of Galway & Margaret and Margret Rowleright the relict of Edward Rowleright late souldier of the fort of Galway (& whoe wereas there slaine by the Rebells shott,) sworne and examined before his maiesties Commissioners depose and say That although the present Rebellion began in other parts on or about the xxiijth of October 1641 & that these deponents had notice thereof & were too much driven to feare the diasters which ensued in the towne of Galway: yet theis deponents stayd there hopeing for amendement vntill the on or about the 18th of March 1641 on Sunday next before Sct Patricks day 1641 on which day Mr deane york in St Nicholas the English Church in Galway (at the request and by the direction of the irish Inhabitants of that towne, then seeming to beare speciall affection to the English) openly in the pulpit of the said Church divulged, That it was the mynd of the Irish [ ] and Inhabitants in that towne That all the English in the towne should take an oath to be true to his Maiestie & to that towne & they that were irish Inhabitants wold doe the like, with this further expression that if the English should refuse that oath It would be worse for them all: And then vpon the comeing of the English out of that Church a great company of rude & deboist [ ] irish souldjers gathered and flockd about them: & haveing a writing drawne inforced all the English that came out of the Church to take oath to be true to the King and towne, & cawsed all the Englishmen alsoe then comeing out of the Church to putt their handes to that 45 fol. 168v

46 writing which they had soe contrived and in readines the tenor & effect was, That the Irish inhabitants of Galway were loyall subiects & had vsed the English with well or to that effect as nere as theis deponents can now call to mynd, which signeing & subscripcion of the said writing (althoughe thitherto partly true) yet those English soe subscribeing the same were plainly overawed and inforced thereunto by meanes of the multitude of the Ruffian irish barbarous souldjers & their Armes then & there present, Howbeit the very day following the signeing of that writing the irish of Inhabitants of that towne shutt vp the gats & would suffer the Kings fort there to haue nothing at all for their mony: and then surprised Captain Clarks shipp in the harbour there, and forceibly & cruelly murthering 4 of his men & woundinge others dangerously Insasmuch as one of them soe s hurte vizt Robert Rawlins being dangerously wounded in his back cam was brought soe wounded to the howse of this deponent Magdelen Smith, & another was brought into the same his howse whose belly was ryfled ripped up by the Rebells soe as his bowells came out, of which hurt he quickly died, but the said Rawlins with much adoe recouered, And then & there the irish <A> Rebells vizt Dominick D Ker Kervan agent for Tho: Linch of Galway merchant: Lawrence oge Bodkin of the same merchant & james Linch fitz Stephen of the same merchant and divers other Irish Rebells: surprised tooke out of the said shipp 8 peeces of ordinance and 2 murtherers: Whereof they planted instantly fowre against the fort of Galway within the towne, & the rest 46 fol. 169r

47 they planted against the fort and to keepe hinder releef to be brought thither and erected a gibbett at the crosse whereon to hang the English in the towne of Galway which <gibbett was taken downe vpon the daparture of the English> And on Trinity Sunday then next following 1642 The Rebells souldjers of Ere Connaght hy (hyred by the irish Inhabitants of Galway) murthered one Mris Collins a worthy & religious woman as she was at her prayers on the same sabbath day in the deponent Margret Rowlerights howse & they then and there alsoe murthered one Mr John ffox and [ ] his wiffe <the said foxes head being cutt of & was carried vpon a pike vp & downe the towne & tossed & vsed with very much disgrace & kicked with like a footeball in the streets: And the said ffoxes wiffe being extreamely wounded the preists and fryers resorted to her to seduce and convert her but not prevaileing that wicked rebell that had wounded her before, then murthered her outright>, & the Carpenter of the said Captain Clarks shipp & a yong gallant yowth of about 12 yere old being the sonn of one mr ffisher of Tuam fled thither for succour the Rebells murthered alsoe :, And at that tyme and other tymes afterwards the same Rebells sett Centries at the Dores of all the english protestants soe as they durst not goe out neither night nor day without danger of their lives (being subiect euery day to their scandalls and oprobrious words as English dogs, and threatening often by what deaths the english doggs (as they tearmed them) shot should suffer death, (their very children according to their powers exceeding the men insomuch as their very frie or yong base children would with skeanes (wherewith generally they were armed) come to the English women & say yow with their skeanes presented, you English Jades or doggs I will cutt your throats The distresse and present misery & danger of the English being then such that none durst soe much as contradict any of those graceles impes but were inforced to brooke & endure their base and almost intollerable provocacions: And then the Rebells in the towne of Galway robbed all and deprived all thenglish protestants of their goods And Insomuch as theis deponents John Sheeley and Jane 47 fol. 169v

48 his wiffe say that the Rebells of the towne of Galway & those others in the cuntry thereabouts forceibly or in the month of March aforesaid deprived and robbed them of their howsholdgoods Corne bills bonds debts & other chattells of the value & to their damage of 100 li. 200 li. or thereabouts And the And the said Magdelen Smith saith That her said husband & shee were about the same tyme deprived robbed & dispojled of their goods chattells & meane sworth 100 li. And the said Margret Rowlright saith That by meanes of the Rebellion her husband (then aliue (but since dead shott to death by the Rebells) & she were deprived & lost their goods & chattells worth 40 li. And the said Magdelen Smith seuerally And further saith that the principall man that soe as <A> aforesaid robbed her of her goods was her landlord Tho Butler of Galway merchant, assisted with the rude & barbarous multitude of Rebells of EreConnaght who weare imployed by the irish Inhabitants of Galway to rob, murther, & stripp, the English: And all the deponents aforesaid say, That whenas the English protestants in Galway were deprived & stript of their meanes, those very rude Rebells of EreConaght seeing the covetousnes and rapine of the irish townsmen of Galway: fell into this passion and swore Gods wounds you (meaneing the irish merchants and Rebells of the towne of Galway) have hired us to be their your butchers to kill thenglish (as we have done) & promissed us all the pillidge of them, & now yow will not suffer vs to goe on, becawse you will haue all their goods yourselues: Therefore we will doe you noe more service becawse you will not give vs the booty promissed 48 fol. 170r

49 promissed or to that effect: wherevpon those of the English goods which the townsmen had not taken (they indeed haveing culld out and taken the best) Those rude Rebells of EreConnaght from thenceforth were suffered to take away, and they and the rest tiranized ouer the poor English that stayd in the towne murthering the most that stayd, the deponent and others for saffty flying into the fort there: John Scally signum predicte [mark] Jane sheeley signum predicte [mark] Magdalene Smith signum [mark] Margaretæ Rowleright Jurat. 25. Martij 1644 Hen: Jones Edw Pigott

Margrett Rowleright abovenamed and Oliver Smith haue bin alsoe examined before Sir William Ryves knighte

49 fol. 170v

50

John Sheely & his wife and Magdalen Smith, & Margaret Rowleright C. Gallway.

50

Edward Piggott Henry Jones

Jane and John and Margaret

John Sheeley of the towne and County of Galway Baker & Jane his wiffe and Margret Rowleright widow formerly examined in addition to their former examinacions saith say That at the tyme when deane yorke advised the English in the Church to take the oath & signe the Certificate in their former examinacion mencioned the Bishop of Killallagh was present in the Church and soe was Justice Donnellan: And the same Bishopp was aswell before as after that downe tyme, well intreated there by the papist inhabitants whoe made collections of money for him and gave him and his wiffe some clothes and apparell and vsed them soe kindly that the said sayd they should never want & indeed vsed them soe Kindly that the Bishops wiffe said there, she would returne againe vnto them John S[ch]ally Signum Jane [mark] Sheeley Signum [mark] dictæ Margaretæ Rowlright Jur 25o marcij 1644 coram Hen: Jones Edw Pigott

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Christopher Cooe

Christopher Cooe late of Tuam in the County of Galway Merchant sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That about Allhallontide 1641 when the Rebellion was begun in that County this deponent with divers others of his protestant neighbours intending for safety of their lives to fly to Galway they had direction & incorragement from the right honorable the Erle of Clanrickard for to stay at Tuam aforesaid for that his souldjers (which he then sent thither) should guard & defend them whereon this deponent & the other protestants relying they staid there for some tyme, Howbeit becawse those souldjers (being irish) devowred & eate vp all their provision & att the length fell a robbing and pillageing them & whenas one of those souldjers whoe was billetted at the deponents howse, threatened to lett out his the deponents gutts becawse he read a prayer booke on the sabbath day, & had killed him as he thinke{th} had he not bin prevented) Then this deponent with his wife & 4 children came privately and secretly away with xviij s. only in money, but noe goods & gott with much danger and difficulty to Galway yet not without much great danger of being murthered in the waie Howbeit this deponent was at Tuam aforesaid before he came away deprived robbed & dispojled by those souldjers (their promissed guard <a> & by one Rickard ô Bourk of Ballendarick in the County of Galway Esquire whoe is said to be next kinsman to the said Earle of Clanrickard, & One Laughlin ô Connor of Tuam aforesaid g Merchant, Oliver Kerrin of the same Merchant, Patrick Towell Merchant, Richard Kerrin of the same merchant Lawrence Stray of the sa Suffren of the same towne Lawrence Bodkin of the same merchant, and by divers other rebells whose names he cannott now call to mynd, of his goodes and chattells Consisting of wares Merchandize howsholdsgoods Cattle bills bonds specialties and other thinges worth ffive hundreth pownds being all his substance & att the same tyme those Rebells and others their adherents alsoe robbed & spoiled all the rest of their protestant neighbours of Tuam & of other parts thereabouts & killed & murthered divers as this deponent hath credibly heard & verely beleeveth: And further saith that about the t a little before <{symbol}> this deponents comeing from Tuam vizt about the begining of Januarie 1641 one Mary that was servant to one Greene a merchant of Tuam confessed vnto this deponents wiffe <b:> and to this deponent alsoe That a Rebell vizt one Liuetenant Bourk had at her Masters howse in Tuam aforesaid forceibly ravished her, and to prevent her crying out one of his souldjers thrust a napkin in into her mowth and held her fast by the haire of her head till the wicked att was performed, And the said 1 fol. 172v

2 Mary then complained and sayd that shee had layn sick vpon it for 3 or 4 dayes and was in such a condition that she thought shee should neuer bee well nor bee in her right mynd againe the fact was soe fowle & greivous vnto her Christopher Cooe Jur xxjo October 1645 Hen: Jones Will: Aldrich

{Galway} Christopher Cooe Jur xxjo October 1645 Intw C: f non sol

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Stephen Linch of Galway

The Examinacion of Stephen Linch marchant of Gallway taken the 19th of January 1652 concerneing the Surprisall of Captain Captain Clarkes shipp. <symbol> Being demanded whether the Councell of Eight satt the day before the surprisall of the ship, concerneing the manner how it should be done. The Examinant made answere that they had otherwise the he had never gonn vpon the designe and that they satt att the Mayers howse, who did <A> promis to saue the vndertakers harmeles being Examined who they were that went aboard the day before this Examinant went for to surprise the said ship who made answere tha{t} there were Some 40 men, viz the Sheriff John Martin, and likewise to his best remembrance the other Sheriff Mathew Martin, but cannot call to mynde the rest but he saw them all coming into the gate, and further that hee went att that tyme downe to the poynt with his musket to goe aboard the ship (thinkeing that the worke for the Surprisall of the vessell had bin done) for to gaurd the Ship, who demanding of those that came from aboard the ship. what the reason was that they had not Surprised the Ship, made answere to him that it could not be done by reason that the forecastle and Steridge were shutt vp and soe were preuented Stephen Lynch Taken before Collonel Peeter Stubber & Mr Robert Clarke

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