Stewarts 1641 Depositions

From Trinity College Dublin 1641 Depositions

What was the 1641 Rebellion

Traditionally the rebellion was thought to be sufficiently explained as an inevitable response to the plantation in Ulster. Nowadays most scholars see that as an
oversimplification and treat the immediate outbreak of rebellion as a response to political developments in all three of the Stuart kingdoms. The deterioration of
the condition of Catholics under Lord Deputy Thomas Wentworth’s rule, the success of the Scottish revolt and the breakdown in relations between the king and
the English parliament led Catholics in Ireland who retained property and social position to fear that they were in danger of expropriation and persecution if the
power of the king were to be significantly limited. In the belief that the king was seeking allies to assist him in defending his prerogative, they entered into a
complex conspiracy to seize control of the Irish government on his behalf.

In the event, the enterprise lost support and the plan was carried out under the leadership of a small group of Ulster Irishmen, members of the ‘deserving Irish’
who had been treated favourably in the plantation. They failed to achieve the primary aim of seizing Dublin Castle and the revolt was initially confined to
Ulster, where they relied on the support of the dispossessed Irish. The situation was ambiguous, because the leaders solicited support by claiming that they were
acting under a commission from King Charles to take arms on his behalf. Before long, however, it became clear that although most of those who joined the
rebellion believed that they were ‘the king’s soldiers’, they were nonetheless determined to overthrow the plantation. It was the limited and loyal aims of the
rebels that made it possible for the Old English of the Pale counties, some of whom had been involved in the early stages of the conspiracy, to join with the
northern army in December when the hostility of the Dublin government left them defencless. Their lead was followed in the other provinces and the outbreak
of civil war in England, followed by the alliance between the English parliament and the Scots, served to vindicate the original claim to have acted in the king’s
interest. The leadership of the Confederates never sought the dispossession of the planters and forbade the repossession of property. But there is no doubt that
there was a mismatch between the aims of the leaders and the expectations of many of their followers: the ethos of the rebellion was suffused with resentments
of past injustices and a determination to exact retribution.

The plan to seize Dublin Castle failed but Sir Phelim O’Neill, nephew of Hugh O’Neill, second earl of Tyrone, seized as number of key strongholds across south
Ulster. Under severe pressure from government forces, the rebels increasingly relied on the support of the dispossessed Irish, who had a more radical agenda to
overturn the entire plantation settlement.

In addition, shortly after the discovery of the Dublin plot the Lord Justices publicly blamed all ‘illaffected papists in Ireland’ for the rebellion. This anti Catholic
rhetoric now prompted members of the Catholic Old English community to join the rebellion of Ulster Irish in the name of the king. In November 1641, at a
choreographed meeting at the Hill of Crofty, near Trim in County Meath, leaders of the Old English and Ulster Irish communities formed a new catholic alliance
to coordinate their military efforts.

Initially, the war went badly for the rebels, as government troops, reinforced from Scotland and England, won a number of important victories. In August 1642,
the outbreak of the civil war in England prevented further supplies reaching Ireland. As the government counterattack ground to a halt, the Catholics gained vital
breathing space to formalise their alliance in the confederate association, based in Kilkenny. For the next seven years, until the arrival of Oliver Cromwell in
1649, an indecisive, yet bloody conflict devastated much of the country.
Contemporaries in Ireland, England and Europe interpreted the Irish rebellion of 1641 as part of a universal catholic plot to destroy the protestant faith.
Martyrologies, such as Samuel Clarke’s, and new editions of John Foxe, contextualised the Irish rebellion alongside earlier persecutions.
During the early modern period, several notorious sectarian massacres were committed by both Catholics and Protestants across Europe and the Americas. In
1572, thousands of French Protestants were murdered by Parisian Catholics, an event which helped shape European Protestant identity and reinforced the idea
that Catholicism was akin to tyranny. Batholomé de las Casas, a Spanish bishop who accompanied Spanish forces to South America, alleged that they massacred
20 million native Americans. English polemicists pointed to the religion of the Spanish soldiers to explain the extent of this barbarity. In 1655, the catholic duke
of Savoy ordered his troops to clear the Waldensian Valley of Protestants. Many historians explain these atrocities as part of a wider ‘General Crisis’ across
Europe, and it is clear that memories of these massacres captured the popular imagination and shaped religious identities not just in Ireland and Britain, but also
in Europe and the wider world.

Bartholomé de las Casas, An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most exact relation hitherto
publish’d, of their unparallel’d cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people (London, 1699), produced by the courtesy of the
Board of Trinity College, Dublin

The 1641 Depositions constitute the chief evidence for the sharply contested allegation that the 1641 rebellion began with a general massacre of Protestant
settlers. Propagandists, politicians and historians have all exploited the depositions at different times. The 1641 ‘massacres’, like King William’s victory at the
Boyne (1690), and the battle of the Somme (1916), have played a key role in creating and sustaining a collective Protestant/British identity in the province of
Ulster.
This process was officially promoted after the Restoration when October was declared a day of commemoration, marked by church services and a sermon, to
serve as an annual reminder of Catholic treachery and savagery. The promulgation of such views each year helped to affirm and perpetuate a sense of communal
solidarity among Irish Protestants. Indeed, histories of the 1641 rebellion, including numerous editions of John Temple’s Irish Rebellion, were reprinted
throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to lobby against the granting of Catholic rights.
Iconic images from the 1641 rebellion, such as the drowning of 100 Protestants in the River Bann at Portadown in County Armagh, frequently appeared in
publications. To this day, the Orange Order Lodge at Portadown carries a banner depicting the massacre when they parade every 12th of July.

1641 depositions PortadownIncident Lurgan 1641 depositions

Deposition of Henry Boyne 16/2/1642 MS 839 010r Andrew Stewart Tyrone
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Death, Killing, Military Action, Robbery, Stripping
Henry Boyne of Mullaghtean in the Barony of Dungannon & Countie of Tirone Clerke sworne & examined deposeth
That on or about the fower & twentyeth day of October Last past hee was forcibly at the house of Andrew Stewart distant from his owne house about two myles,
at which time a Scottishman brought word that the Castle of Mountioy was taken by Tirlogh a Groome o Quin & Phelim Coggie o Neil & others, and withall
related that hee himself was in the said Castle at the takeing thereof, & was demanded what Country man hee was to which hee replyed hee was a Scottishman,
wherevpon they comanded him to depart from thence for they had nothing to say vnto doe with any Scottishman, but onely with the English, wherevpon this
deponent presently departed towards his owne house where in the way hee say sawe one James Duffe mc Camwell of Mullamoyle of the County of Tirone &
about forty or fifty other Irish men robbing & dispoiling all the English thereabouts, beating & abusing all that offered any way to resist. And when hee was come
home to his house hee symbol found there an Irishwoman that was come (out of goodwill) from Donoghmore about 6 miles distant, to tell the Deponents wife that
it were best for him too beebegone Least hee might bee killed, (for as the said woman related) the rebells had cutt of one Mr Madders head a Minister, & that
their cheife malice was against Churchmen. & shee also said that about twenty of the o Quins were comeing toward the deponents house, to whome (as shee
likewise said) shee replyed that his house was already rifeled, & that they answered they cared not, for it was himselfe they came for. And the day following the
deponent repaired to the hill of Tullyoge about 3 myles from his house, where hee found about three hundred Scotts assembled together in Armes, with whome
hee began to reason how that present outrage might bee suppressed, & did desire that the English & Scotts might draw togeather & putt themselues into hundreds
& so fall vppon the rebells & rescue the goods which they had taken away but they denyed it Saying they had noe warrant for it, wherevpon the deponent replyed
that hee had rather fall into the hands of a mercifull Prince, then into the hands of vnmercifull tyrants, yett they told him hee was but a fresh water souldier & that
they were vpon a Parly with Sir Phelim roe ô Neil, & would not imbrace his this Deponents motion at all, and in the meane time there came a messenger from to
one Mr Bradley an Englishman a minister certifying him that about fowerscore of his Cattle was then taken away by the Irish rebells neare vnto that place, & hee
desired to have thirty or fortie of the scotts to helpe to rescue the said cattell, but it was denyed by the Scotts then present. And in the meane while the deponents
wife & some other English had brough brought some of their goods into the Castle of Castlestewart, (for safeties sake) & towards the Evening the deponent
repaired thither where there mett him Mr Robert Stewart brother to the Lord Castlestewart, who had beene all that day (as this Deponent was informed)
drinkeing at Mountioy with the Rebells, but however hee had procured a warrant from two of the Rebell Captaines to apprehend any of the Irish that should bee
found pilfring or stealing thereabouts By vertue of which warrant the said Mr Stewart had apprehended three rogues & brought them to lodge in the Castle that
night, & about 9 of the Clocke that night Mr Stewart went out of the Castle & proffered to have locked all the English in the said Castle & to have carryed away
the Keyes (to what purpose the deponent cannot coniecture) And on the morrow after at his returne hee came & swore & railed against the English threatning to
throw all theire goods out of the Castle, saying that the Irish had vowed to pull it downe for harbouring the English in it, And therevppon the rebells increasing
daily, & the English being now way assisted by the Scotts, And the deponent being credibly informed that the Rebells had vowed to have his head of before the
next day in the morning, hee was forced to change his garment & fledd away disguised accompanied with his brother & a school Maister that taught his Children
where they were forced to goe through many daingers, & were often besett with rebells, & about 5 miles from his owne house they were robbed of theire horses
& money, & so were forced to fly destitute of meanes through Scotland vntill they came into Yorkeshire to theire freinds. And hee further deposeth that hee was
then forced to leave behinde him his estate to the value following vizt his possession of Two Townelands in ffee simple in the 400 li. 150 300 Barony & County
aforesaid worth fower hundred pounds, of a Lease of two Townes called Mullaghtean & Vnicke in the Barony & County aforesaid worth an hundred & fifty
pounds, a Lease of halfe a Towne called Mullaghglasse in the said Barony & County worth fiftie pounds Corne hay & Cattle worth three hundred pounds, in
money & debts owing to him an hundred pounds or thereabouts, houshould goods, plate & husbandry worke tooles & such like things about his house, worth an
hundred pounds, all his Bookes worth an hundred & fiftie pounds Timber & Barrell staves worth two hundred pounds amounting in all to ffowerteene hundred
pounds a All which hee was forced to leave behinde him by reason of this rebellion, And verily beleiveth that all his said estate is seized vppon & possessed by
the Rebells in those parts And further saith that hee cannot certainly heare what is become of his wife & Children, whome hee could not bring with him in regard
hee was forced to fly such obscure & by wayes & to travaile in the night And hee also saith that in his iourney hee sawe many townes burning in the night time, &
multitudes of English people stripped of their Cloathes robbed of their estates & banished by the Rebells, & many others perished with hunger & Cold by the
meanes of the said Rebells whose names hee durst not stay to enquire after.
Henry Boyne jurat 16to ffebr: 1641. Roger Puttocke. John Sterne.

Deposition of John Kerdiff 28/2/1642 MS 839 012r Robert Stewart Tyrone
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Captivity, Desecration, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Signs and Wonders, Stripping, Succour,
At Dongannon they had reported of a vision seene a little before this insurrection began, a woman compassing about the town with a speare in her hand when any
would approch her she would seeme to goe from them when any would goe from her she would draw neere to them. the like they say appeard before Tyrones
last former rebellion At armagh Colonel Plunket told vs of another vision seene at Lysnegarvy which he & about twentie more beheld after the battle (wherein
the Irish lost very many of their men & most of their armes) there was an house sett on fier at the end of the towne, by the light of which fier they discerned a
number of horsmen riding to & fro, the number seem’d to the Colonell to be about a 1000 or 1500, vpon which relation I was bold to inquire whither they
seemd their owne or their enemies, he answered that somtyme they conceiued them their own: otherwhile their enemies yet I beleeue they could hardly seeme
their owne because amongst them they had not neere so many horses: I further desired to know what they supposed them to bee he sayd they were conceiued to
be fayries or such like. At Ardtra we were sett vpon by some of the scotts (of whom Robert Stewart brother to the Lo: of Castlestewart was cheife) who tooke
some of the goods out of the house and many of our horses & armes from vs.
John Kerdiff Jurat the last of ffer: 1641 William Aldrich Jo. Sterne fol. 12v 1381 fol. 13r 1372 1.
John kerdiff Rector of the parish of Disertcreagh in the Barony of Dungannon and countie of Tyrone duly sworne saith. That on or about the 4th day of November
Last, he was at Ardtra at mr Bradleys house the parson of Ardtra & Balliclogg in the same Barony and Countie and there robbed and despoyld by the Rebells of
his goods of the valews following
li. s. d.
In bookes 2000
In horses 1700
In debts & reddy moneys & arrearages of rents 9400
In wearing Clothes & houshold goods 3600
In Tieths this yeare 1642 10000
All amounting to the summ of 26700
for The trayterous actions committed, and words spoken by the rebbels against the protestants were as followeth oct. 23 & 24 1641 they surprisd these forts
viz. + Dungannon, Charlemont, Castle caufield, Mountjoy Munnymore, Castle Blaney, Monaghan Newry in a word & all the Cheife forts in the Counties of
Armagh and Tyrone. and ransackt euery towne & house wich belonged either to Englishman or Scotch They murthered the very first day mr Mader minister of the
parish of Donoghmore by some of the Donellies within a while after they murthered mr New Curate to mr Bradley of the church of Ardtra by one of the Quins the
minister of Dungannon (mr Blith) with eight more were murthered, being first stript, & after driuen out of the towne vnder Colour of Conduct and within half a
mile, to the towne murthered, mr Blith holding Sir phelomys protection in his hand as if he would call Gods vengeance downe on such treacherous
trucebreakers.
It was also related to me that mr Fullerton minister of Loughgale and mr Morgan Aubrey were kild at the Bridge at port of Downe, at which tyme about
threescore 4xx or an 100 of the inhabitants of Loughgale were cast into the river & there drowned Many more murthers were comitted on the English and Scotch
And as to robberies This deponent says Mr Brodely of Ardtra was robbed to the value of 1000 li. as I suppose and Whiles he was robbing Sir Phelim o Neile
& his company passed by Thos and they passed by and soone after he was turned out naked out of his house, the Rebbels neither, leauing dublet coat hat nor shirt
with him his wife is fallen into an extreme frenzy by these outrages. Mr Dunbar minister of Donoghenrie with his wife and fiue or six small children with and old
father and mother were al of them shipt & rob’ds of whatsoeuer goods ther or wearing clothes they had so that for a while the man was distracted, & after
compeld to tye some straw about his thighs to couer his nakedness and was whipt as I was certainly informed and what was becom of him his wife or children
no man in that country could tel me, thogh I Liued within 3 miles of him. mr Wright Archdeacon of Dromore had his house which cost him much burnt; I see
himself his wife & two children in most extreme misery at charlemont from whence they journeyed to kinard. Mr Robison minister of kilmore and his wife liued
miserably at Loughgale hauing nothing left to satisfy nature but what they could procure by begging other s distressed like them Mr Hastings was thr minister of
Tullaniskin did was turnd turned out of his lodging & stript stark naked and clad in beggars clothes not a sho to his foot in which state he came to the house
wherin I was lodged where we dur the people of the house durst not giue him lodging lea fearing least he should be murthered, for twice the next day there was
serch made for him. Sir William Brambey had his towne & Castle burned and al his goods taken away. what that I say more And indeed Al the English & Scot’sh
in the countys of Armagh & Tyrone (a few onely excepted) were not left worth a farthing at Armagh Archdeacon maxwel related that about fortie men women &
children were drowned at Corbridge neere glaslough the children going merily hand in hand as to a place of refuge, and one of their company having licence to
pray prayd so effectually, that one of his exectioners went frantick with the conceite of his impious fact When the rebbels came from the siege of Oghar they
(Like so many bears robbed of their whelps) kild euery scott they mett withall; two they kild within less then a flight shot to the house where I was. at one mr
Harisons neere benburb, where by an ambush layd for me, by one of mr Harisons seruants I was brought into an ambush from the house about .10. of the clock at
night and was by 3 rogues more & my guide, I was stript of al my clothes & left stark naked, and compeld with a sternles shirt & a skullious Jerkin, which he gott
without any thing to couer my lower parts, in the company only of a poore Englishman a Tanner to trauell about two miles in the frost and snow, and were
compeld to lye in a cold open barn, expecting euery hower of the night to be slaine by rogues that went about the barn, this was the 3d tyme, but most cruel of my
stripping The words which I tooke notice of was these Sir Phelim o Neyle told others in my hearing that he had commission for what he did, not onely from most
of the cheife of the nobility of this kingdom, but from his Maiestie; and had also letters to that purpose from the Erle of Argile.and that their intentions were onely
for the libertie of their religion, and for the recouery of those lands which should appeare by the law of the land to be T vniustly held from them. and for the
Kings prerogatiue & There were certain reports spread among them that the king was beheaded in Scotland. Colonell plunkett told vs at Armagh that seing this
exploit was begun he was one of the cheif plotters therof & was seauen years Employd in the T compassing of it. At Newry we found a prophesy much
vndervaluing his Maiestie wherby may be seen the loyalty of such as would Entertaine such fopperies them here And saith & saith The men which I tooke notice
of b which bore part in this caus rebellion were Sir Phelim o Neyle general, of Kinard Turlogh o Neyle lieut general Turlogh grom o Quin in the parish of
Donoghmore Marshal gouernor of Mountjoy Cormock o Hagan Governor of Munnimore Nele oge o Quin Capt. at Lissan Randal mc Donelly Gouernor of
Dungannon Patrick Moder oDonelly of Castle Caufield Capt. Shane o Neyle of killaman of Charlemount Capt. Manus o Cane Esq? of Loughgale Capt. Bryan
Kelly of Charlemont Capt Alex Hovenden in the parish of Tinan Capt. o Hagan Junior son to Cormock o Hagan Phelim o Donelly At Armagh they rested better
then in other places, for elswhere as at Dongannonn Loghgale Monimore & the parts adiacent al the English & Scotsh a very few onely except were robd & stript
& cast out of their houses but at Armagh some of the English fared but somwhat better, for thogh al their beasts abroad were taken from them, yet many of them
enioyd whatsoeuer they had within their houses, and some of them had their houses filled with the distressed English, as mr Chappel where was mr southwick mr
whittakers mr Bradly & his wife, mr Bennet, & divers others so that the euery roome of the house was filled. At Tom Taylors likewise were Sir William
Bromley & his lady & his children & many others so in like manner elswhere where I was not acquainted. these at Armagh had better quarter then Elswhere for
at the first insurrection they fortified the ch. and kept out the rebbels, but at length vpon the promise of faire quarter vnder the hand & seale of Sir Phelomy they
trusted themselues to his promise. mr John Kerdiffe com. Tirone Mr Cheesman minister of Lyssan and disertlin was the 1st day imprisoned in the Castle of
Munnimore al his goods and moneys seysd vpon and a fortnight after with the rest of the inhabitants of munnimore was sent out of the towne. Mr Beveridge
minister of Killaman was Robd & stript and turnd out of his house with his wife & children and liued at Loghgale when I left the Country. 1638 John Sterne
William Aldrich
Examination of Isobell Jamieson 29/1/1653 MS 838 019r John oge Stewart Rebel Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Killing
The Examination of Isobell Jamieson of Ballygavan spinster age yeers or therby
Sworne & Examined agrieth with the former Deposition of brother Robert in all poynts and further sayeth that she and her brother henry was both horsed &
Caried away to Glenarme presently and that the said Mulligan Caryed her behind himself where being brought into the howse of one John oge Stewart where
torloch oge o Neill there Gouernor lay the said henry her brother being first Caried before him was presently takne away to the of Glanarme and there hanged
and afterwards this Examinant was caried before the said gouernor who asked hir some questions Concerneing the howse of Ballygelly, what provision or
furniture they had in it
Examination of Alice Countesse Dowager of Antrim 9/2/1653 MS 838 022r James Stewart Victim Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing,
The Examinacion of Alice Countesse Dowager of Antrim, taken at Colrane the ninth day of February 1652. Before Richard Brasier Esquire Major of Colerane,
& Colonell Thomas Coote Governour of Colerane Commissioners for Administracion of Justice and Justices of Peace within the Province of Vlster
Whoe being examined saith, That shee dwelt in the house of Bally Castle at the beginning of the Irish Insurrecion which was part of her Jointure & A left her by
her late husband the Earle of Antrim, and that she continued in the same house untill the Scotch Army sent in Ireland under the Command of Generall Major
Robert Monroe Marched into the Roote, which was about three weekes in May in the yeare 1642. And being demanded, why shee left Bally Castle house her
owne Jointure, when the Scotch Army came into the shee saith, Because shee could not keepe it from her her Enemies And being demaunded who those Enemies
were shee said Monro and the Scotch Army who were marching fromCarrickfergus & had almost catched this Examinant before shee was well over the Bann.
And being demanded upon what Ground shee imagined the Scotch Army to be her Enemies her Answer thereunto was, Because the Scotts Army tooke her B
sonne Randell Earle of Antrim Prisoner out of his own house of Dunluce. But being told that That could be no Reason for her to leave her house & flee over the
Bann, because that her said sonne was not taken Prisoner untill three days after shee left her said house & fled over the Bann; shee then answered That the Scotts
Army comming on one side by Land, and McCallins Army by Sea from the Raghries, who were alwaies Enemies to the mcDonnells, shee fled for her Life over
the Bann as aforesaid And the said Examinant being further demmanded why shee did not aswell take & imagine the Irish & Highlanders who murdered the
Brittish att Portnaw (& who came over the Bann and burnt all the Countrey & murder(ed C man woman & childe of the Brittish all along in their March from
Portnawe unto Ballentoy & besiedged the house of Ballentoy her Enemies aswell as the said Scotch Army and mcCallin men, To which shee said, That shee
could not keep not maintain her house, and therefore shee went away. But being severall times told That that Answere was not pertinent to the Question; shee at
Last Answered That if shee were to be hanged shee could not Answer the said Question any otherwise. The said Examinant being likewise demanded whether
William Glover with severall D of the Brittish Inhabitants of the Towne of Bally Castle the next morning after the Murder at Portnaw did not offer to come into
the house of Bally Castell to make that house a Shelter to Protect them from the Irish Murderers, and whether some of them namely James Stewart & Thomas
Stewart did not enter the house, and whether her Ladyshipps servants, to witt Edmund O Haggan & Shane O Haggan and others, came not upon those that entred
the house with drawne swords, (her Ladyshippe & her daughter the Lady Sarah being present) and forced them out of the Gates; Shee saith shee did not heare of
the Murder at Portnaw, untill a long time after it was committed. And that shee never saw or heard that the said William Glover or any others entered the said
house, or ever were repulsed by her, or any of her servants. And her Ladyshippe being further demanded, whether shee & her servants refused not to suffer any
of the Brittish Inhabitants of the Towne of Ballycastle or Countrey thereabouts to enter into the house of Ballycastle for safety of their Lives; shee answered shee
nor her servants never refused any to enter for shelter. And being further demanded what Brittish her Ladyship did save and protect in her said house, shee
answered that her house was full of Irish Scotch & English, of whom remembers none but an English TuckMiller whose name shee knowes not, who was father
in law to Edmund O Haggan E her Ladyships servant & Coaltagh, and one John Hunter Carpenter his wife and their Children as shee thinks. Ands her Ladyship
being told that not onely the said English Tuck Miller, Anthony Knowles by name, and the said John Hunter Carpenter with his wife & Children, but likewise
John Murghlan Smith, Alexander Begg Stewart Moulterer of her Ladyshipps owne Mill, and John Kidd Mason were preserved by her Ladyship and servants and
those with them, not soe much out of any good intention in preserving their lives as out of particular respects viz: Anthony Knowles for his relacions aforesaid
John Hunter and the rest because they were Tradesmen, and so necessary as that her Ladyship and the rest could not be without them, when as many others both
men & women not not so necessary to be preserved for their purpose were drawne from the Castle Gate if not out of the very house, & bawne & babarously
murdered under the very Walls of the Castle besides ff such as were murdred neer the Castle & in and about the Towne To which last Question her Ladyship
answered that shee did not know of any that were there murdred & if there was that shee was no souldier to go out and defend them. And her Ladyship being
further demanded, if shee knew one Jennett Speir wife vnto John Smith, unto which shee answered shee had some little knowledge of the same Jennett. And
being asked whether the said Jennett did not come into the Castle and prayed her Ladyship to save her life, and whether shee did not at the same time hold her
Ladyship by the skirt of her gowne, & whether her Ladyship did not command the Carlin should be taken away from her, and whether according vnto her
Ladyships Command, was not the said Jennett presently taken out and murdred. Unto which her Ladyship answered, that shee knowes not that the said Jennett
ever came into the said house, or that ever she spake unto her, or tooke her by the skirt of her Gowne, or gave any Command concerning her, but shee saith, that
long after shee was murdred shee heard of it, & that shee was kild G behinde her owne Stable, but by whom shee knowes not. And being demanded whether shee
knew one Thomas Robinson who was murdred either the same day or day before that Jennett Speer was killed, and at or neer the same place shee saith shee
knew no such man or that any such man was there murdred. And being demanded whether her Ladyship did owe the said Jennett Speir 20 li. or 30 li. or any
money, shee answered, shee never in all her life did owe her one penny, but that the said Jennett Speir did owe her 15 li. And being further demanded whether
her Ladyship knew Margaret Moneypenny wife unto Andrew Cowburne Laird of Traiton, And whether the said Margaret came unto Ballycastle her Ladyships
house desiring shelter and protecion under her roofe or within her Walls, and wase refused refused safegard for her life by her Ladyship or those belonging unto
her, vpon which refusall was shee not afterwards murdered To which her Ladyship answered that shee never knew the said Margaret Moneypenny, neither did
ever heare that any H such woman was murdered. And her Ladyship bering further demanded If shee heard of the defeat which Alester mcColl and the other Irish
gave vnto the Brittish in the Layney beyond Ballymony, she saith she heard of that defeat but how soon after, or by whom shee knowes not. And her Ladyship
being likewise demanded whether shee did receive a Lettre from Sir James McDonnell Alester McColl McDonnell, James McHenry O Cahan and James
McSworley upon Satturday the next day after the defeat given in the Laney dated from Ballymoney wherein they certified her Ladyship That they her servants had
obtained a victory the day before (since called Blackfryday) against her Ladyship & their enemies wishing her to make her Liquour a little stronger then the Last
was, or they would no longer be her servants To which her Ladyship ansered that shee neither knew of or received any such Lettre And further shee saith not.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Gilduffe O Cahan10/3/1654 MS 838 024r James Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Military Action, Multiple Killing,
The Examinacion of Gilduffe O Cahan of Dunseverick in the County of Antrim Gent taken before us at Colerane the tenth day of March 1653
Who being examined saith, That upon Sunday the 24th of October 1641 in the morning, he came from his house of Dunseverick unto the Towne of Dunluce with a
little foot boy with an intent to heare a Masse at Dunluce, having no more Company with him, A that there being no Masse there that day he this Examinante went
into James Stewarts house In Dunluce to drinke a Cupp of wyne, that about ten of the Clock the same Sunday morning Henry McHenry his son in Law, and his
owne sonne Manus O Cahan who had been visiting his said brother Henry mcHenry came vnto this Examinant unto the said house where they drunk three or
foure pottles of wyne, That about one or two of the Clock the same Sunday in the afternoone Capten McPheadrie Mr Archibald Boyd, & about ten or twelve
horsemen more with swords and some Pistolls, came unto Dunluce and reported that Sir Phelomy roe O Neill and the Irish in Tirone, were risen in Rebellion,
and the said Capten McPheadres and the rest with them made the Scotch in Dunluce arme themselves & draw downe into the new Pavement in the inner Court
next the DrawBridge and outer gate of Dunluce Castle, which this Examinant hereof hearing of, and also being very soone after told by one Doole McSparran a
highland Scotchman, who dwelt at Bushmills, & came into the said house, where hee this Examiannte and his said son in law Henry McHenry and his said son
Manus were drinking B wyne, That five hundred of Argiles men were comming over the Bush Bridge (a mile distant from Dunluce) to take Dunluce Castle and
command the Countrey. Upon which Newes this Examinante left his said sons drinking wyne in the said house, and went downe alone (having no weapone but
his Rapier) about three of the Clock the same afternoone into the said Inner Court where the Scotch were gathered, and asked Capten McPheadres what newes
brought him and the rest thither Capten McPheadres told him that Sir Phelomy Roe O’Neill and all the Irish in Tirone were risen in Rebellion, whereupon this
Examinant told the said Capten McPheadres that he rather believed that the Scotch C and the said 500 men intended to joyne together to take the Castle of
Dunluce Whereupon this Examinante alone went into the Castle and bolted the Outer gate, and staid there alone about halfe an houre, And then Anthony, Capten
Digbyes man who had the key of the Castle came to the Outer gate, and this Examinante unbolted it, & lett him in, and demanded of him the key of the Inner gate,
which he gave this Examinante And this Examinante opened it and went into the Castle, That about one quarter of an houre after, Capten Digby and his said sonns
Henry McHenry & Manus O Cahan came downe unto the Castle with about eight English men belonging to the Earle of Antrim and Capten Digby to whom this
Examinante opened the Castle gate, and lett them in, but he this Examinante saith, that both he & Capten Digby after his entrance refused to suffer the Scotch to
come in, lest they should surprise the Armes in the Castle untill an Order came from the Deputy of Ireland or Earle of Antrim. And this Examinante being
demaunded whether the newes was true that 500 of Argiles men were comming over the BushBridge, saith that it was a false Alarum, and an untrue Report as he
understood forthwith after hee this Examinante had entred the Castle as aforesaid. That bout ten of the Clock the same Sunday symbol at night, the Earle of
Antrims brother Mr Alexander McDonnell D Archibald Stewart Esquire and this Examinants son Tirlagh Oge O Cahan came unto the new Pavement neer the
Castle gate the Bridge of the Castle being drawne vp, and the Gate lockt & called into the Centinell. Wherevpon this Examinante went vp into an vpper Roome
over the Castle gate and thrusting out his head, asked who they were, and what was their busines, The sayd Mr Alexander McDonnell answered this Examinante
that he was there and Mr Archibald Stewart and his son Tirlagh Oge O Cahan, who desired to come into the Castle. And this Examinante and the said Capten
Digby told them that they three might come in, provided none came with them, and promising none should enter but themselves, the Drawbridg was lett downe
and the gate opened at the said houre of the night, and then three were admitted entrance. That after Mr Alexander McDonell with the said Mr Stewart and his
this Examinants son Tirlagh were entred the Castle, Mr Alexander asked this Examinant wherefore he entred the Castle of Dunluce in such manner and kept out
the Scotch, To which this Examinant answered That it was by reason of the foremencioned Report E of 500 of Argiles men that were comeing, whom with the
Scotts, he feared would have surprized the Castle: That this Examinant and his sons Henry mcHenry and Manus O Cahan stayed in the said Castle untill
Thursday following with the said Capten Digby & his men upon which day, a Lettre comming from the Earle of Antrim directed unto Capten Digby to take
Charge of the said Castle, this Examinant and his said sonnes Henry McHenry and Manus O Cahan departed the Castle, and went to their owne homes. That he
the this Ex aminant (from) that day vntill the Murder at Portnaw joyned with Mr Archibald Stewart in keping the Roote in Peace and Quietnesse: W hich Murder
was plotted by his son Tirlagh Oge O Cahan, Alester McColl McDonnell, James McColl McDonnell and others now dead, as his said son Tirlagh and others
told him, That the said Murder was committed by them and their men vpon the third day of January 1641, as he remembers, and that he heard there were 60. or
80. Of the Brittish there killed That after that Murder the Irish on the other side and this side the Bann having for their Chiefe Commanders James McColl Mc ff
Donnell, Alester McColl McDonell, Patrick McHenry, Manus Roe O Cahan, John Mortimer, Tirlagh Oge O Cahan this Examinants sonne & divers others since
dead did with fire & sword march through the Roote and killed the Scotch whereosever they gott them as he heard, That this Examinant being at his owne house
at Dunseverick Alester McColl McDonnell, and other the Chiefe Commanders last mencioned about two dayes after Portnaw Murder comming over the Bush
Water sent for this Examinant who dwelt but a mile thence to goe along with them unto Ballentoy; That he mett them neer Ballentoy and that the Garrison of
Scotch there, being summoned to yield Ballentoy house by Alester McColl and the said Commanders they of the said Garrison refused to yield Vpon which the
said Commanders to witt the said James McColl McDonnell, Alester McColl, John Mortimer and his sonne Tirlagh Oge O Cahan, with others now dead and
their men, consisting of about 300 men marched that night to Craigballinoe and encamped there, & G this Examinante with Colonell Manus Roe O Cahan who
came with his men over the Bann after the Murder at Portnaw, went that night along with this Examinante unto his said house at Dunseverick, where his two
sonnes, Henry McHenry and Brian Modder McHenry with their wives & families then Lived; That the next day the said Commanders and their men marched
from Craigballinoe unto Dunluce, & compelled this Examinante to go alonge with them, to see if Captain Digby would take this Examinants Councell sooner then
theirs to yeild the Castle of Dunluce unto them. That the said Capten Digby after summons sent by them & Councell given by this Examinant unto him by a boy to
yield the Castle upon quarters he refused to yield it & to take quarters, After which some of the Common souldiers, without any Command to this Examinants
knowledge, sett a house on fire, whereby the whole Towne was burnt. And he saith, That he did not see any kild that time at Dunluce, but he heard that one
Scotchman called William Galt was killed by one of Collonell Manus roe O Cahans souldiers called McJasson by the new Buildings in the Court next the
Castle. That the same night after Dunluce was sett on fire the said Commanders & their men quartered at Ballymagary a mile distant from Dunluce and that he
this Examinant & his sonns in Law Henry mcHenry, and Brian Modder McHenry, stayed with them that h night, and that the next day the said Commanders &
their men marched towards Old Stone, and this Examinante went home to his said house, but where his said sonnes in law went, or whether they went with the
Army or no unto Oldstone he doth not know And this Examinant being demanded who killed John roe Spence, his Tennant, and his wife, and two or three more at
Ballyallarty upon this Examinants Land neer his house; He saith That about two dayes after the Murder at Portnaw his son Tirlagh Oge O Cahan, came unto this
Examinants house at Dunseverick late in the night with some few soldiers, and told him that this Examinants said Tennant John Roe Spence, & his wife and three
or foure more whose names he doth not remember were killed that night by his men. And this Examinante asked his said sonne Torlagh if he gave Commanded so
to do, and he said J he did not give full Command, but he did not hinder it: Wherevpon this Examinant cursed them for killing his good Tennants And this
examinant saith, That Alester McColl McDonnell sent orders unto this Examinante in the beginning of March 1641 to besiege assault & gett in the Church of
Ballentoy then kept by the Brittish upon peril of his life; That soone after this Examinante not daring to do otherwise went into Ballentoy & he this Examinant &
his sonne Tirlagh Oges men and Donnell Grome & Dwaltagh mcAlesters men who then lay about Ballentoy went & assisted him to g the said Church That
accordingly this Examinante and the same assaulted the Church seeking to force the doore, that three of the Assailants were killed by shotts sent out of the Church
this Examinante, he being under or neer the ChurchWall was upon his headpeece with a small stone throwne out of the said Church, whereupon he & the said
men retreated. That soone after his said sonne Tirlagh Oge O Cahan, & his men, and the said McAlesters men, did againe assault the same Church, and
endeavoured to breake the Wall with Pickaxes, but were beaten off with the Losse of two men. And this Examinants further saith That after the Irish had beate the
Brittish in the Layny and killed very many and taken severall Colours he this Examinant & his sonnes Henry McHenry & Tirlagh Oge K O Cahan wrote a Letter
unto Mr fullerton & Archibald Boyd then in Ballentoy house, for surrender of it, certifying (among other things) That Mr Stewart & Churches forces were all
killed with no other forces then their owne & so wished them to surrender the house, and as they had soules to save they would Conduct them with a good
Convoy for Colerane or Inver, which Letter containing much more, being now shewed unto this Examinante, he saith That he & his said two sonnes subscribed
that Letter & sent it unto the said persons hoping that upon the Newes therein, they would surrender the said house. That the Brittish in the said house not
surrendering it upon the said Letter this Examinante said sonne Tirlagh Oge O Cahan & Alester McColl McDonnell, according as he was threatned in the same
Letter, sonne after sent for a L Cannon & brought it against Ballentoy, and shott two shotts at the said house, and also caused a Sow to be made which they
brought neer unto the house but did no service against the house either with the Cannon or Sow. And the Examinante being demanded which of the Irish Gentry
commanded the Irish who encamped at Ballyreshane and straitened the Towne of Colerane & Besiedged the Brittish fled thither he saith, That James McColl
McDonnell now prisoner at Carrickfergus and Alexander McColl McDonnell James McHenry & divers others now dead were the Chiefe Comanders of those
who besieged the said Towne. And being demanded where Henry McHenry & Brian Modder McHenry his two sonnes in law then were, he saith they were
sometimes with him this Examinante at his house at Dunseverick, and sometimes with the Irish Campe M at Ballyreshane aforesaid and that himselfe never came
thither but once all the while the Irish Campe Lay there, and at that time he went to see his Gossip James McHenry whom he heard was sick. And the Examinante
being demanded who killed James Kerr and a boy fetching water from the Spring neer Ballentoy Church, he saith he heard it was one Patrick O Levarty now in
france & then a souldier of his son Tirlagh Oge O Cahan, And further saith not.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Henry McHenry 11/3/1653 MS 838 027r Archibald Stewart Derry
The Examinacion of Henry McHenry of Ballymulvannagh in the Parrish of Ballywoollan in the County of Londonderry Gent taken before us at Colerane the
eleventh of March 1652 Who being duely examined saith That vpon Sunday morning being the 24th of October 1641 he & his boy onely went from his dwelling
at Ballymulvannagh aforesaid unto Dunluce to heare a Masse there. That when he came unto Dunluce he found his father in law Gilduffe O Cahan drinking wyne
in his sonne Roger O Cahans house at Dunluce where they sate alone drinking wyne (except for the time that the Masse was celebrated by Neill McLam the
priest) vntill about one or two of Clock the same SundayAnd being demanded in what place the Masse was said that he saith he doth not remember. And further
this Examinante saith That about the said houres of one or two of the Clock in the afternoon of the said Sunday Capten McPheadress with about 15 horse men
having swords about them came ryding into Dunluce, but this Examinante did not enquire what they came about. That sonne after Capten McPheadress & the
Scotts came thether A scotch highland man, came into the said house, where they were drinking (whom this Examinant knew not) & whispered this Examinants
said father Gilduffe in the eare, upon which he went out of the doores, without saying any thing, and tooke the key of the Castle Gate, from one Tony who kept the
Castle and dwelt with Capten Digby, and after that he the said Gilduffe entred the Castle & shutt the Gate, And this Examinante saith, That about halfe an houre
after that Capten Digby who had been walking abroad came into Dunluce Towne, and this Examinant went unto him and they together went downe unto the
Castle, & his said father opened the Gate B unto them & Lett them in, there being onely some few of the Warders of the Castle which were Irishmen within with
him. That after the said Capten Digbie & this Examinant were entred the Castle his said father in law told them, that the man whom he this Examinante see
Whispter him in the eare, told him that Argiles men were comming over the Bridge at the BushMills, distant about two Miles from Dunluce; That after he was in
the Castle with his father & Capten Digby & the Warders, he see the said Capten McPheadres the same Sunday in the afternoone with those Scotts he brought into
the Towne and some of the Townsmen come into the Court before the Castle and demanded the Castle for the Kings use, as he this Examinante remembers, &
Capten Digby & his said father Gilduffe told him That they would not deliver it untill they heard from the Earle of Antrim. And this Examinante saith, That the
said Report of Argiles men comming over the Bushbridge proved false and untrue. And further this Examinant saith, That about 9 or ten of the Clock the same
Sunday at night as he remembers, Mr Alexander Mc Donnell the Earle of Antrims C brother, & Archibald Stewart Esquire came unto Dunluce and demanded
entrance into the Castle, that after by a Candle lighted & sett in the Window, the said Gilduffe & Capten Digby discerned him to be the Earles brother, they
opened the Gate and suffred onely him & Mr Stewart to enter, Who after their entrance had a Discourse in the Hall with Capten Digby and his said father
Gilduffe O Cahan, but what it was he doth not know. That after about two houres stay in the Castle the Earles said Brother and Mr Stewart went out of the Castle
and ridd that night to Colerane as he hath heard Leaving this Examinante & the said Gilduffe and Capten Digby with the said Warders in the Castle. That they
kept it & abode there for foure or five nights & dayes and afterwards a Letter from the Earle of Antrim declaring that Capten Digby should have the Charge of the
Castle this Examinant and his said father Gilduffe left it & went unto Dunseverick. That from thenceforth vntill the Murder at Portnaw this Examinante went up &
downe the Countrye with Mr Stewart to assist him in all things wherein D he was required That he hath heard it reported amongst the Irish, That James McColl
McDonnell Alester McColl McDonnell, & his brother in Law, Tirlagh Oge O Cahan, were the Chiefe Plotters & Actors in the Murder of the Brittish Companyes
lying at Portnaw, & that he hath heard the reason thereof was because they were jealous of the Scotts, who as it was muttred amongst the Irish had an intent to
cutt them off; That about two or three dayes after that Murder James McColl McDonnell, Alester McColl McDonnell, Tirlogh Oge O Cahan, Manus roe O Cahan,
John Mortimer, Donnell G or me McDonnell Donnell Grome McAlester, with about five hundred men Rendezvoused at Craigballinoe about a Mile from
Dunseverick That the said James McColl and the rest of the Gentleman Last named sent unto this Examinante and to his said father in law Gilduffe O Cahan &
his brother in law Brian Modder McHenry being then at Dunseverick, that they should come & joyne with them or they would kill them & burne their houses &
plunder their goods, that thereupon out of feare they went to them and marched with them the next day E into Dunluce where after the said James McColl and
other the Irish Gent: aforemencioned had summoned Capten Digby to surrender unto them the Castle of Dunluce, which he refusing to doe some of them sett, or
caused to be sett on fire, the Towne of Dunluce and burnt it, that at the same time this Examinant with others of the Irish were standing upon the Hill a little above
Towne, that he did not see or heare of any scotch that were at Dunluce, That the next day the said Army marched towards Colerane, and from thence returned
over the Bush & so marched through the Countrey towards Oldstone. That this Examinante did not see any of the English or Scotch kill’d by them in all their
said March through the Countrey from Colerane to Oldstone, neither did he see any English or Scotch in their March from Colerane unto Oldstone. And being
demanded where all the Brittish who Lived in that Countrey were gone, he saith they fled to Colerane and Ballentoy & towards Carrickfergus after that they
heard of the Murder at Portnawe for feare they should be killed by the Irish whom they heard were come over the Bann & had ff joyned with those who
committed the Murder at Portnaw: That when the said James McColl McDonnell, and Alester McColl McDonnell James McHenry this Examinants brother,
Tirlagh Oge O Cahan his brother in Law, John Mortimer, Donnell Gorme McDonnell & diverse other Irish Gentleman whose names after so long time he cannot
remember were come unto Oldstone they mett with a Party of Irish commanded by Art Oge O Neill of feenagh and joyning with him they summoned the Castle of
Oldstone commanded by Walter Kennaday and the Brittish which was forthwith yeilded but upon what Condicions he doth not know, but saith he did not see any
of the Brittish kill’d in or neere the Castle; But heard that some women & Children who were in the Castle & had gott quarter were about a Mile from the said
Castle neer Clanravell water murdred by Toole McHugh O Hara and his men. This Examinante being demanded whether he did joyne with his father Gilduffe O
Cahan and his brother Tirlagh Oge O Cahan in drawing & subscripcion of a Letter sent unto the Brittish in Ballentoy house for surrender of it; he saith he did,
and was forced thereunto by his said father & brother And being demanded whether the Letter now shewed him, directed unto Mr fullerton & Archibald Boyd be
the same Letter, he saith G it is, and that the hands thereunto subscribed is the proper hands of his said father & brother, & of him this Examinante And he saith
That he was at Ballentoy the same time that his said Brother Tirlagh brought the Carnon & Sow against Ballentoy house; That there was onely two or three shotts
made at the house with the said Carnon; That the Officers who comanded the Irish which besieged Ballentoy were his said Brother Tirlagh, Donnell Grome
McAlester, Coll McAlester, and some others whom he cannot remember. And being demanded who commanded the forces who besieged the Towne of Colerane,
he saith, it was James McColl McDonnell, Alester McColl, Donnell Gorme McDonnell, Toole McHugh O Hara, his brother James McHenry & Brian Modder
McHenry and that he this Examinante came unto the Irish Campe neer Colerane sometimes when the said Officers sent for him, & staid with them two or three
dayes and then returned back to Dunseverick where he then dwelt. That he never see any kill’d neere Colerane but heard some were kill’d there. That upon the
Scotch Armyes March in May 1642. Into the Root towards Colerane, all the Irish fled over the Bann, and this Examinante also amongst the rest did also flee
over. And further he saith not.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Donnell Gorme McDonnell 11/3/1653 MS 838 030r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The examinacion of Donnell Gorme McDonnell of Killoquin in the Parish of Magheresharkin in the County Antrim Gent taken before vs at Colerane the said
eleaventh day of March 1652 Who being duely sworne examined saith That he hath heard & doth very believe that Allester McColl McDonnell & Tirlagh oge ô
Cahan who had the A Command of two Companies of the Regiment vnder the Command of Archibald Stewart Esquire & lay at Portnaw were the cheife Actors in
the Murder of the Brittish Companies of the same Regiment which lay with them at Portnaw That the Murder was committed vpon this Examinants father &
Henry ô Haggans lands about a mile from the place where this Examinant dwelt, & that he thinks that about thirty of the Brittish soldiers were murdred there That
the rest of the Brittish Regiments the day after the said Murder marching towards Magheresharkin to meet as hee supposes with those forces who had murdred
their fellow soldiers this Examinant & his wife with their goods feareing they would revenge themselves for the said Blood fled vp to the woods This
Examinante saith That he heard that some forces came over the Bann vnder the Command of Manus roe ô Cahan & John Mortimer but he see none of them neither
came neere them & that they joyned as he heard with the said Allester McColl & Tirlagh oges forces & marched vnto Ballimony towne & burnt it & thence
through the Countrey into Ballentoy & Dunluce That he this Examinant & his wife & goods the same day the Brittish forces retreated from Maghereshakin
returned vnto his house & followed his husbandry That after the Irish Armies returne from Ballentoy & C Dunluce the said Allester McColl McDonnell sent for
this Examinante vnto Stronstom in Ballymoney parish to ioyne with them there & beare them Company & that he went thither & staid with them one day & then
returned home And being demaunded what Irish Gentlemen had Command of the Irish Army then at Stroneton he saith Allester McColl & Manus roe ô Cahan, &
being demaunded what Gentlemen else he see there, he saith that James McColl McDonnell was there, whom vntill that time he did not heare of or know to have
ioyned with the Irish. That James McColl McDonnell then or soone after tooke vpon him to be Collonell of an Irish Regiment & that with all the strength he &
the rest of the Irish could make they marched vnto the Castle of Oldstone, which as he heard was surrendered vnto James McColl That soone after to witt on or
about the 11th of ffebruary 1641 The Irish under the Command of Allester McColl James McHenry & Toole ô Hara routed the English & Scotch forces & killed
five or six Hundred of them in the Layney within five mile of this Examinants house, he being then at home & not heareing of it vntill the next day That after the
defeate given the Brittish the said James McColl McDonnell Alester McColl McDonnell James McHenry with their men beleagured Colerane & camped at Peter
Lowries & the Sterlins houses about one mile & a halfe from Colerane That the said Allester McColl sent for this Examinant to come & ioyne with them & bring
some men with him wherevpon he this Examinant went thither & tooke fiue or six men along with him that he had noe Command there but stayd with James
McColl McDonnell (Allester McColl McDonnell who sent for him being gonn vnto the Glenns before he came) & with James McHenry & the rest (whom he
doth not remember who then were there) about fower or fives daies That dureing his being there he see one Donnoghy McDeltan hang a D Scotchman vpon a
Carr at Peter Lowries house end but by what order or wherefore he did it he knowes not & that he was then about to hang another scotch boy called George
Tomson whom this Examinant saved & made him his man & gave him his owne cloake & targe to beare least any of the Irish shold doe him hurt, that at his
returne home he tooke the said George Tomson home with him & sett him to worke That sometimes afterwards he came to see the said Officers who lay at
Ballyreshane to besiege Colerane & sometimes as he went to Oldstone Castle to see James McColl McDonnell & his wife who lived there after it was
surrendered to him except at such times as he came vnto the Irish Campe lying before Colerane And this Examinant saith he never see any kill’d or put to death
but the said Scotchman who how was hang’d, but he hath seene very many dead Corpses of men ly in the who had beene killed by the Irish, but by whom he
knowes not That when the Scotch Army under the Command of Generall Lasley or Munroe came into the Roote he & all the Irish that could escape fled over the
Bann & joyneing themselves with Sir Phelomy roe ô Neill went & sought the Brittish forces at Glanmackquin where the Irish wer routed, but this examinant saith
that he had noe command there but served as a horemann or Trooper And that after the defeate at Glanmaquin he lived by his husbandry for about five yeares
After which haveing noe mantainance left him he tooke on to be a Capten in Mr Alexander McDonnell the Earle of Antrims brothers Regiment of foote & served
two yeares in Mounster under him against Ormond & Inchequins forces And further he saith not.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Maior

Examination of Edmund ô Haggan 12/3/1653 MS 838 032r James Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Assault, Multiple Killing, Succour
The examinacion of Edmund ô Haggan of Ballycastle in the Parish of Ramoane in the County of Antrim Gent: taken before vs at Colerane the said 12th day of
March 1652 Who being duely examined saith That he was the Countess of Antrims waiting man for many yeares & lived at Ballycastle with her Ladyshipp That
the day after the Murder of the Brittish at Portnaw to this Examinants best remembrance William Glover James Stewart & Thomas Stewart with some ten
Scotchmen of the Towne of Ballycastle came vnto the Gate of the Castle That James mcHenry Esquire who since was kill’d at Enniskillen as he hath heard mett
with the said William Glover without the Gate where they were talkeing together this Examinante being present but not so neare as to heare what they said That
James Stewart & Thomas Stewart went in at the wickett of the Gate the Broadgate being shut as it was accustomed to be And William Glover & the rest of the
Scotts staid without That soone after the said James Stewart & Thomas Stewart were entred into the Castle the said James McHenry went in at the Gate & this
Examinant followed him that assoone as they were gone in they found the Porter of the Gate & the said James Stewart & Thomas Stewart quarrelling and that the
two Stewarts swords were drawne vpon which the said James mcHenry & Donnell grome McDonnell (since likewise kill’d with the men which hee had in the
Castle to keepe the Castle for his owne or what end he knowes not, disarmed the said James Stewart & Thomas Stewart And being demaunded upon what
grounds the said two Stewarts drew their swords after they were within the Castle Gate he saith he beleives it was to force the Porter to open the Gate & make
way for William Glover & the Scotts without the Gate to come in That soone after the said two Stewarts haveing their swords restored them were sent out of the
Castle And the Examinant being demanded if any of the Brittish came after vnto the Castle for safety of their lives he saith that all who came thither for Shelter
were received in & their lives saved And being demaunded who those were he saith John Murghlan a Smith a Carpenter John Kidd a Mason Allester begg
Stewart afterwards the said Countesses Moulterer & some other men & woemen whose names he doth not remember That he did not see or know of or heare of
any murdred at Ballycastle but one Jennett Speir who was kill’d on the Backside of the said Countesses stable neere the Castle but by whom he knowes not That
Allester McColl McDonnell and James McHenry came to visitt the Countess at Ballycastle after the Murder at Portnaw & in the Layney soe often as they
pleased & that this examinant sometimes did see them & others there And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Deposition of John Kairnes 14/4/1642 MS 839 033r John Stewart Debtor Tyrone
Nature of Deposition: Robbery, Lost in Debts
That John kairnes of personstoun in the barrony of Clogher and County of Tyron a Scottishman and a protestant, Aged 45 yeers or theerabouts, being duely
sworne deposethThat he was Robbed and had stoolen from him by Shane oge o Neell Bryen mcShane oge o Neell Torlogh grome mccawell and many others
Rebells since the Rebellion began vizt about the 29th of october 1641 as The true note of his goods and Chattells & expelled & deprived from his lands
followeth viz the proffitts of his lands following
of oxen sixe scoor and tuelue and other young Cattells worth 160 li.
of Cows & Calpaghes 24 030
of horses meares & Coltes 20 40
of househould goods & furnitureof it & plate & Cloathes wort 200
of hydes & Tanned leather & barks& his tanhouse worth 90
of Rent of Lands per annum thatis wasted & distroyed & kept by the Rebells worth aboue 90 li.
besydes his duelling house of personstoun being a faire stone house well bvilded new over with shingles, and about other stone houses of xiiij Couples &other
faire english houses of timber to his loose abou all burned & distroyed
with the Rebells to his loose aboue 250
of debts that he hath lost vizon Robert Bath of Cookstreet 70
off debt on Iwane mcswyne of Roy inthe County of Dunegale esqr now in Rebellion 10
& the loose of my Cornes worth 200 li
on vinphrad? polter that was killed & robbed by the Rebells 4
on Capt Torlogh o Neell a Rebell 5 li.
on Donnoghy mcswyne of fauat esqr 210
on John Stewart of Ballilaien esqr 10 li.
and in other small debts on severall persons lost aboue 50
And off sheep worth 20 li. 1222 10 s.
The said John Kairnes further deposeth that about a short tyme before the said Irish Rebellion, he bought 1500 acr of Land from Richard Coop of blittoch esqr
and from his sonne Nicholas elcok which Lands ar Lyeing in the said Barrony of Clogher & County of Tyron for which he payed in ready gould & mony 1230 li.,
All which Land is by the said Rebells Robbed wasted & by them Retayned the Land is Called the manor of Kilfadie b which was worth per annum 160 li. per
annum one yeares profitt whereof he hath already lost, and in danger to loose the future profitts thereof worth 160 li. per an n um as aforesaid vntill a peace be
setled The said John further lost 4 tounes of ffrehould in the said barrony of Clogher viz Clawmoor & Clonneblaagh in the manor of personstoun and the 2 tounes
& seshagh of land Called Tulligluss and Clonroyess & sess of Syane that weer worth per annum 30 li. The said John Kairnes hath further lost the benefit of his
office as Clerk of the peace in the County of Dunegall, and his place of feodary of the Countyes of Antrim, and Dunegall which weer better worth then 30 li. per
annum He further deposeth that he knoweth ther ar still in open Rebellion of the Rebells that he did knowe that persued him & robbed him and severall of his
majesties good subiects in the barrony of Clogher, these persons that he knoweth Torlogh grome mccawell of altnerne gen & his sonnes donnell mccawell &
Bryen mccawell and alsoe Donnogh bane mcquire neer to blessingbane esqr Bryen oNeell gent Henry o Neell gent both of Slate Shane mccawell of fenaghdrome
gent Bryen mcsyane oge o Neell of the barrony of Clogher gent Bryen mcArte mcRory o Neell of the brady gent Doniell o daly of fernaghdrum yeoman James
buy o donnelly of keadagh gent Patrik o hoane Late of Aughalen gent Shane o Neell Late of brade gen Patrik mcquire Late with the s ai d donnoghy bane mcquire
gentleman Richard mcgill Late of Aughor generall of the County of Tyron, yf they be not killed since lately
Jo: Kairnes Jurat: Apr: 14o 1642 Hen: Brereton William Hitchcocke

Examination of Alexander McKay 16/3/1653 MS 838 035v Andrew Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Assault, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery
The Examinacion of Alexander McKay of Ballytirrin in the Parish of Culfaghtrim in the County of Antrim Gent: taken before vs at Colerane the 16th day of
March 1652 Who being duely Examined saith That he heard some who were his tennant after the Murder at Portnaw did ly in wait vpon the hills in the A
mountaine of Cary & did stopp & plunder the Scotts (who (fled that way from the Irish for safety of their lives towards Redbay) of Garrons & goods which
persons afterwards to Witt in August 1647 dyed at Coshendun of the pestilence And this Examinant further saith That some whose names he doth not now
remember brought him word that some of Allester McColls men & some of this Examinant & the McAwleys tennants at Andrew Stewarts house at Coshendonn &
were about to breake his kill where many of the Scotch who fled with their goods were locked in for feare the Irish should kill & plunder them. That vpon the
newes this Examinant with some of his Tenannts went thither, and the said persons who were assembled there being ready at this Examinants comeing to breake
the kill doore or sett the house or fire he saith vpon condicion made with those that they should shed noe blood he required the said Andrew Stewart to give this
Examinant the key of the doore or open it That after this examinante & the rest were entred (contrary to his will) they plundered & tooke B from the Scotts two
pieces of woollan cloth & a piece of Linnen cloth but he saith he see noe none of them stript or killed or any money taken from them And he this Examinante
further saith that after the Murder at Portnaw he was three or fower times sent for vnto the Campe which lay against Colerane by James McColl McDonnell to
stay with him in the Campe that accordingly he went & would stay there two or three daies & then returned home And being demmanded if he see any Brittish
kill’d there or elswhere in the Countrey He saith he never see any killd or ly, dead in the way as he travelled, but he hath heard many Brittish were kill’d by the
Brittish Irish in severall places but by whom he knowes not And further he saith that at such times as he came vnto the Irish campe aforesaid he see there with the
said James McColl McDonnell divers Irish Gent now dead, & Henry A McHenry Brian Modder McHenry William O Sheile his fellow prisoners yett alive And
being demanded whether his tennants & servants came vnto the same Campe he saith he could not keepe them at home though he wold have given them, double
wages And he saith that when the Scotch Army came into Ireland and marched into the Roote he went over the Bann because he heard there was noe pardon or
proteccion for any ofthe Irish And further the Examinant saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier

Deposition of Henry Langford, Robert Browne and James Browne 18/7/1643 MS 830 036r Thomas Stewart Victim Roscommon
Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Death, Desecration, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping
Henry Langford of Abbey Boile in the Countie of Roscommon Clothier Robert Browne Late of Ardneglasse in the County of Sligoe Merchant, and James
Browne his sonne sworne and examined depose and say And first the said Henry Langford for and by himselfe saith That William John Langford his brother
Clothier, since deceased: & hee att the begining of the present Rebellion hadd at Dunmoran & other places nere the same in the County of S l igoe and were
Jointly possessed & interressed as partners of an estate Consisting of Corne cattle howseholdstuffe & other thinges: But for the values thereof hee Leaveth the
same vnto the apprisement & expression of the other deponents: Thone of which vizt the said Robert Browne was trusted with the manageing thereof And the
said other deponents Robert Browne, and James Browne further say That the said william Langford their Agent whoe was then aliue and their neere neighbor
being in the begining of the presente Rebellion affrayd that the Rebells would take away his liffe & resolveing to leave that part of the Countie of Sligoe where
hee then was, did then deliuer into the handes and custody A of Edmond Mc Swyne and Roger Mc Swyne of Ardneglas in the said Countie of Sligoe the said his
and his said brothers goods and chattells vizt Corne Cattle and howsholdstuffe, worth ffive hundred threescore and seventeene powndes sterling vpon speciall
trust and promisse of the said Edmond & Roger Mc Swyne. to keepe the same saffely and to redeliuer the same to him the said William Langford or the said
Henry & John Langford when they should demande the same: Howbeit the said Edmond and Roger Mc Swyne did apparantly since run into Rebellion and not
only they but all the rest of their name and sept thereabouts became and were absolute Rebells Soe as theis deponents are verely perswaded that the said goodes
are quite lost from the said owners thereof: And theis deponents further s Robert Browne and James Browne further sajth That Hugh ô Connor Coll oge ô Connor
brother to the cheefe Rebell there Teige oge ô Conner all of Sligoe Hughe Mc Toole ô Gallogher of in or nere the County of Donegall: & others (all notorious
Rebells) at Sligoe aforesaid Committed to Prison one Robert Gambell then provost of Sligoe & a Brittish honest protestant William Welsh a gent of good
accompt & his wiffe & one of their children Sampson Port and his wiffe Sergeant John Lewis & his wiffe: William Braxton John Gate James Scott & his wiffe
Thomas Stewart and his wiffe and 2 children William Sheele and his sonn Robert Scyance the yonger one Abraham an ould man another ould man that was a
Cutler William Chapman St & divers others in number to t Amounting to about ffortie about thirty nyne all good protestants & forced them all into the Common
gaole of Sligoe & about Christmas 1641: And then and there those wicked & bloudy Rebells together with divers other murtherers in the night time stript all
those protestants stark naked: & that done most cruelly & barbarously stabbed slashed hackt & hewd into peeces and murthered them all: Howbeit saveing the
said Robert Gambell & John Gate: which said Robert Gambell haveing twoe thrusts vizt one in his head and another in the side of his belly crept behynd the said
Tho: Stewart whoe was a very bigg & fatt man & sheltered behynd him & when the said Thomas Stewart fell downe dead: Hee the said Robert Gambell fell
downe with him behynd at his back and partly pulled the fatt man vpon him and lay as he were dead And then alsoe the said John Gate haveing a wound fell
downe amonst the rest as if hee had beene dead alsoe: & hee & the said Gambell lay bleeding in that state and predicament vntill all the rebells went away &
left them all for dead. And not long after the Rebells were gone. the dores of the prison being left open the said Gambell and Gate taking hould of that advantage
and of the darknes of that present night secretly crawled vpp & fledd away and escaped: & afterwards theis deponents meeting him the said Gate recouered of
his wowndes and in saffty at Relee in the said Countie of Sligoe Hee there informed and tould them of the strippings & murthers aforesaid in the gaole of Sligoe
and how hee and the said Gamell escaped away wounded as aforesaid: And further B sayth that the Rebells with at Ardneglasse and Skreene in the County of
Sligoe aforesaid murthered and putt to death by hanged hanging and the sword about thirty protestants people of men women and children: And it was & is a
Comon report that the Rebells at Shrewle murthered and putt to death fowrscore and tenn protestants that came from Killalley in the County of Mayo and the
parts thereabouts Many of them being ministers & the rest gentlemen of the Cuntrie of good value: And the Rebells alsoe att the Moine in the County of Mayo
stript stark naked ffifty nyne protestants & then and there with th swords skeines pykes & other weapons slasht hackt hey hewd stabbd and cutt in peecs all those
poore naked people & soe most barbarously murthered them E C. all: And the said Robert Gamble and John Gate confidently tould them theis deponents, (and
they themselues verily beleeue are assured the their report is true) that when the Rebells hadd in the gaole of Sligoe cutt the protestants in peeces & one Limbe
from another they the Rebells att length gathered vpp the peeces and Limbes & Joined or sett them againe to the bodies and layd the bodies of those soe martired
men in most base & scornfull manner betwixt the womens leggs: & there left them: Howbeit one Robuck ô Crane a Merchant of that towne: buryed them all in a
hole together as was credibly reported & bestowed wynding sheets vpon some of them: which, (as was alsoe reported) the Rebells afterwards stript and robbed
them of. And the deponent James Browne further sajth that hee heard it credibly reported that twoe of the sonns of one Mr Mountgomery a minister were
murthered by the Rebells as they were comeing towards D. the Moine. And the deponents Henry Langford and Roberte Browne further say that there were at the
begining of the Re b ellion of theis deponents Knowledgs about One hundred and fforty familyes within the County of Sligoe of the English & Scottish
protestants: ffew very few of which escaped with Liffe (that the deponents could heare of): But were almost all murthered by the Rebells as that theis deponents
could heare of: Hee this deponent Robert Browne haveing Lived amongst them a yere & a half after the Rebellion began, but still in great danger of his liffe, And
this deponent Robert Browne further sayth that since the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof: Hee was and is deprived, robbed, or
otherwise dispojled of his goods chattles & meanes at Ardneglass & elswhere of the value of twoe hundred Powndes sterling at the Least
Henry Langford robert broun James Browne Joh Watson: Hen: Brereton. William Aldrich

Examination of William ô Sheile 16/3/1653 MS 838 036r Mr Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing,
The Examinacion of William ô Sheile of Ballymoney Parish in the County of Antrim Gent taken before vs the said 16th day of March 1652 Who being duely
examined saith That he haveing marryed one of the O Neile & being fearefull of the Scotts that they should hurt or apprehend him he with his wife & two
servants fled over the Bann about fower or five daies before the Murder at Portnaw & that likewise before he with his wife & two servants did fly over Henry ô
Haggan was fled over unto the Irish on the Westside the Bann And being demanded why he feared the Scotts would hurt or apprehend him he saith his brother
Manus O Sheile now dead told him he heard in Mr Stewarts Campe at Portnaw that he this Examinant would be apprehended And this Examinant further saith
that about six daies after the Murder at Portnaw he returned over the Bann & lived in an Irish Tennants house of his neere or in the Lainy & that after his returne
over the Bann he never marched with the Irish or came neere their Campes in any place neither was at any of their fights or victories or seige of or over the
Brittish, neither did he see any houses fiyred or any of the English or Scotch any where killd neither did he see any dead bodies of men woemen of Children save
of a few brittish who were killed about three myles from this Examinants house B in the Lainy vpon the 11th of ffebrurary 1641 since by the Brittish called
Blackfriday but who kill’d them he knowes not further then he hath heard that Allester McColl commanded the Irish party who fought them that day & routed
them And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Deposition of Amy Hawkesworth 12/1/1644 MS 830 039r Elizabeth Stewart Victim Roscommon
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Captivity, Death, Killing, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping,
Amy the wife of ffrances Hawkesworth the now of Abbey Boile in the A. Countie of Roscomon Taylor, and late the wife of Edward Mewsham Newsham late
of the towne and County of Sligoe Clothier murthered by the Rebells sworne and examined deposeth and saith, That about the first of November 1641 the
Rebellion of the Irish papists brake out and was discouered at & in the towne of Sligoe aforesaid: And then the Rebells A vizt Teige o Connor Sligoe Cheefe
Comander there or reputed generall there Brian ô Connor, Captain Charles ô Connor a fryer, Captain Hugh o Connor all brothers to the said Teige ô Connor
Sligoe Captain Brian Mc Donnogh, Captain Luke Taafe, Captain ffrancis Taafe Captain Patrick Plunckett Captain Donnell Mc Brian Dorroghe o Connor Captain
John ô Crean Captain Brian mc Swyne Captain Roger mc Owen mc A Swine Captain Phelim Connor Captain Teige Boy ô Connor Captain Teige o Connor of the
Glann Captain Con ô Connor of the same Colonell Owen B: ô Roirk Captain Teige mc Brian Ballagh o Roirk, Captain Hugh mc Donnogh Captain Robert Mc
Nemy Captain William oge Mc Phelim mc Glanogh of the Dartry in the County of leitrim Captain William Mc Glannaghe of the same Captain Teige Mc Phelim
mc Glannagh of the same Mr James ffrench and Geoffrey ffrench his sonn, Mr Keadagh ô Bannaghan Edmund C Mc Brian Mc Swyne gardian of the dominicans
of the Abbey of Sligoe Charles Gilgin of Sligoe sonn of John Gilgin of the same, William Crean of the same towne sonn of Andrew Crane of the same Esquire a
Justice of the peace James ffrench of the same towne Merchant, and divers other lewd Irish papists whose names she cannott for the present Remember
assembled themselues together at Sligoe aforesaid, And then and there being Armed and arrayed & in warlick & Rebellious manner with pyks swords skeanes
and other weapons fell suddenly vpon all the brittish protestants thereab in that towne Consisting of threescore families at the least & amongst the rest vpon the
said Edward Newsham her husband & her this deponent, and from those protestants then and there by force and Armes tooke & carried away all their Cattle
horses & sheepe then and there being they being a great number & of an extraordinary value, And about a fornight afterwards those Rebells aforenamed and their
confederats by force & armes attempted and beseiged the Castle of Sligoe then kept by protestants, but they being not able to defend the same long nor oppose
the beseegers were inforced to surrender and yeild vp the said Castle vnto them: But yet vpon quarter offered & promised by the Rebells, that euery howsholder
in the Castle should haue 10 s. in money & their best suite of apparell & shold be saffely convoyed to the Boile, But the Rebells would haue & did by force
deprive the protestants of all the rest of their goods & dryve them from their habitacions, & amongst the rest they then and before deprived robbed & dispoyled
her then husband Edward Newsham and her this deponent of goods & chattells and expelled & stripped them of their habitacion & meanes of the value and to
their losse of twoe hundred Pownds ster: But whenas this deponent and her husband and the rest were (as depending vpon their Quarter promissed) were come
out of the gate of the said Castle Then those Rebells most perfidiously & in breach and violacion of the quarter promissed, assaulted and sett vpon them all & str
i then & there stript them of almost all their clothes: and vyolently thrust them into a howse, where they restrained and kept them in extreame misery fo & almost
starved them with hungar and cold for 6 daies & nights together Insoemuch as some young children thereby died, And then the Rebells sent about forty of those
Robbed protestants away to the Boyle, & vndertooke (and principally the A: said ô Connor Sligoe) then and there faithfully promissed to protect the rest from
danger & gave such his vndertakeing vnder his hand And withall hee promissed that if they would stay and live amongst them at Sligoe as formerly they hadd
done their goods should be restored vnto them. And this deponent and her said then husband being then sent for by her this deponents mother to come away to her
to Abbey Boile & haveing sent some on purpose to bring them hither the said ô Connor Sligoe & James ffrench would by noe noe meanes suffer them to depart
but suffered them to goe & stay in their owne howse, yet restored nothing vnto them nor any of the rest but thay lay in the howse on a little strawe in great
distresse for about three weeks or above, And then some of the said Connor Sligos Rebellious tenants by his Comand or sufferance (vs vyolently halled & thrust
all most of the protestants that stayd there into the gaole of Sligoe, The said ô Connor Sligoe for excuse saying he putt them there for feare the Common souldjers
should doe them mischeife Howbeit this deponent and her twoe children & Elizabeth the wife of Tho: Stewart and one Mris Braxton were not putt into the gaole
amongst the rest, but this deponents said then husband & a servant woman & 2 prentices were amongst many others then thrust into the said gaole about 3 o clock
in the afternoone, And about B A: one of the clock of the night following, The said Hugh ô Connor Charles o Conner the frier Charles Gilgin Robert Butts a
Butcher James Butts his brother another butcher and others whose names she cannott now call to mynd came with swords Rapiers skeines & other weapons, (as
the said Edw: Newsham her then husband the on his de a t h bed afterwards informed her) into the said goale where the said prisoners were, And then and there
they the same Rebells did most barbarously and divellishly Cutt slash hack stabb wound and cutt in peeces the most of those poore protestants their prisoners
vizt Thomas Stewart aforenamed, merchant Sampson Port and his wife mr William Walsh and his wife Mr William Braxton James Scott & his child & one
Pawle, father to the wife of the said Sampson Port. John little Arthur Martin. William Doolittle, his wife & children: William Carter Serieant John Lewis and his
wiffe Elizabeth Harlae the deponents servant woman Robert Siens and William Blatt & Jeremy Blatt, her husbands late Apprentices & seuerall others whose
names she cannott remember: And then and there the said wicked Rebells gave this deponents said husband soe many seuerall slashes and cutts in his head &
shoulders that he those parts might well be compared to a griskin cutt and thick slyced to be bruiled in the fyre, with which wounds he falling downe to the
grownde & after some that were slaine falling and lying vpon him he there lay in the blood of himself & the rest vntill morning & then being fownd with 2 or 3
more alive, the keeper of the prison in the morning would not suffer the other bloody soldjers to kill them outright, But for that tyme saued their lives And then
quickly after one Robuck ô Crean at the intreaty of the deponent begged her said husbands life: wherevpon her husband having hidden some money hee & she
gaue 20 s. to come into one Dermotts Boys howse whilest she had should wash and dresse him which she performed aswell as she could, & then & there her
said husband related vnto her the manner of the said Massacre in the gaole to be as aforesaid. But they this deponent & her husband being euery howr in danger
to be murthered, did by meanes of the said Robert Robuck ô Crean procure a passe from the friers there for them and there children to goe to Abbey Boile But
her husband being extreame weake & faint with bleeding & his cloths stiff with his blood, she hyred 2 horses & for him & the Children B & gaue 22 s. for the
hire of them But had not passed aboue a myle but the wicked Rebells stripped her husband & her & her children to their very skinns exposeing his many wounds
to the snowy & cold weather, & soe shee carrying thone of her Children thother walked in her hand, and her poore fainting husband f staggering & crawleing
with extreame paine and difficulty most miraculously as farr as Ballinefadd the wicked Rebells there that then layd seige to a Castle held there by the English)
where surprised them and then and there one of them with a sword gaue her husband such a blow on his head that he therewith fell downe to the grownd, and for
all their passe shewed, they would not suffer them neither to goe to the Castle nor depart out of the towne, but at length sayd that for tenn shillings they would
saue his liffe or otherwise they would Kill him but as for her she & her children should goe amongst the English into the Castle to help to eat them out:
wherevpon she & her children were forced to Leave her said poore wounded husband husband there amongst those merciles villaines & went into the Castle,
And there she haveing a brother that was a souldier she borrowed x s. of him for redeeming her husband, & came and deliuered it to her those Rebells whoe
having received it, would not release him but quickly after hanged him to death & kept & deteined her in miserable restraint amongst them till her poore brother
for redeeming her life & liberty gave them fiftie shillings more, But how often she was threatened by those and other wicked villaines to be hanged. & how many
swords & skeines were presented at her & her children with oaths & threats to take awaie their lives: although it was very often and too true yet it may seeme B
incredible to relate, And this deponent further saith that at and soone after the said massacre in the gaole of Sligoe the Rebells there murthered in the water the
wife of James Scott & gave her such a wound in her belly that the childs Arme (wherewith she was great) appeared through the wound, and she & her child in
that posture were carried down with the streame of the Rivervnto a mill, where they were taken vpp, And about the same tyme there were murthered in the
streets of Sligoe fowre Scochmen that had Lately fled to the towne for succour. And this deponent was a miserable spectactor & ey witnesse when the Dead
bodies of those that were murthered in the gaole were carried out the nexte morning after the massacre Comitted, which bodies were throwne into two great
holes made in the orchard of one Mr Ricroft a late minister there, and there buriedSignum predictæ mark Amiæ Jur xijo Octobr 1644 Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton
And this deponent further saith that her now husband ffrancis Hawkesworth hath bin and is by meanes of this Rebellion deprived robbed & spoyled of his goods
chattells & meanes of the value & to his losse of 60 li. & above, & had his howse burned to the ground by the Rebells And that he & she have a charge of 7
poore children signum predictæ mark Amiæ
Henry Brereton Henry Jones

Information of Captain John Perkins 8/3/1644 MS 839 040r Robert Stewart Tyrone
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Captivity, Death, Killing, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping,
Amy the wife of ffrances Hawkesworth the now of Abbey Boile in the A. Countie of Roscomon Taylor, and late the wife of Edward Mewsham Newsham late
of the towne and County of Sligoe Clothier murthered by the Rebells sworne and examined deposeth and saith, That about the first of November 1641 the
Rebellion of the Irish papists brake out and was discouered at & in the towne of Sligoe aforesaid: And then the Rebells A vizt Teige o Connor Sligoe Cheefe
Comander there or reputed generall there Brian ô Connor, Captain Charles ô Connor a fryer, Captain Hugh o Connor all brothers to the said Teige ô Connor
Sligoe Captain Brian Mc Donnogh, Captain Luke Taafe, Captain ffrancis Taafe Captain Patrick Plunckett Captain Donnell Mc Brian Dorroghe o Connor Captain
John ô Crean Captain Brian mc Swyne Captain Roger mc Owen mc A Swine Captain Phelim Connor Captain Teige Boy ô Connor Captain Teige o Connor of the
Glann Captain Con ô Connor of the same Colonell Owen B: ô Roirk Captain Teige mc Brian Ballagh o Roirk, Captain Hugh mc Donnogh Captain Robert Mc
Nemy Captain William oge Mc Phelim mc Glanogh of the Dartry in the County of leitrim Captain William Mc Glannaghe of the same Captain Teige Mc Phelim
mc Glannagh of the same Mr James ffrench and Geoffrey ffrench his sonn, Mr Keadagh ô Bannaghan Edmund C Mc Brian Mc Swyne gardian of the dominicans
of the Abbey of Sligoe Charles Gilgin of Sligoe sonn of John Gilgin of the same, William Crean of the same towne sonn of Andrew Crane of the same Esquire a
Justice of the peace James ffrench of the same towne Merchant, and divers other lewd Irish papists whose names she cannott for the present Remember
assembled themselues together at Sligoe aforesaid, And then and there being Armed and arrayed & in warlick & Rebellious manner with pyks swords skeanes
and other weapons fell suddenly vpon all the brittish protestants thereab in that towne Consisting of threescore families at the least & amongst the rest vpon the
said Edward Newsham her husband & her this deponent, and from those protestants then and there by force and Armes tooke & carried away all their Cattle
horses & sheepe then and there being they being a great number & of an extraordinary value, And about a fornight afterwards those Rebells aforenamed and their
confederats by force & armes attempted and beseiged the Castle of Sligoe then kept by protestants, but they being not able to defend the same long nor oppose
the beseegers were inforced to surrender and yeild vp the said Castle vnto them: But yet vpon quarter offered & promised by the Rebells, that euery howsholder
in the Castle should haue 10 s. in money & their best suite of apparell & shold be saffely convoyed to the Boile, But the Rebells would haue & did by force
deprive the protestants of all the rest of their goods & dryve them from their habitacions, & amongst the rest they then and before deprived robbed & dispoyled
her then husband Edward Newsham and her this deponent of goods & chattells and expelled & stripped them of their habitacion & meanes of the value and to
their losse of twoe hundred Pownds ster: But whenas this deponent and her husband and the rest were (as depending vpon their Quarter promissed) were come
out of the gate of the said Castle Then those Rebells most perfidiously & in breach and violacion of the quarter promissed, assaulted and sett vpon them all & str
i then & there stript them of almost all their clothes: and vyolently thrust them into a howse, where they restrained and kept them in extreame misery fo & almost
starved them with hungar and cold for 6 daies & nights together Insoemuch as some young children thereby died, And then the Rebells sent about forty of those
Robbed protestants away to the Boyle, & vndertooke (and principally the A: said ô Connor Sligoe) then and there faithfully promissed to protect the rest from
danger & gave such his vndertakeing vnder his hand And withall hee promissed that if they would stay and live amongst them at Sligoe as formerly they hadd
done their goods should be restored vnto them. And this deponent and her said then husband being then sent for by her this deponents mother to come away to her
to Abbey Boile & haveing sent some on purpose to bring them hither the said ô Connor Sligoe & James ffrench would by noe noe meanes suffer them to depart
but suffered them to goe & stay in their owne howse, yet restored nothing vnto them nor any of the rest but thay lay in the howse on a little strawe in great
distresse for about three weeks or above, And then some of the said Connor Sligos Rebellious tenants by his Comand or sufferance (vs vyolently halled & thrust
all most of the protestants that stayd there into the gaole of Sligoe, The said ô Connor Sligoe for excuse saying he putt them there for feare the Common souldjers
should doe them mischeife Howbeit this deponent and her twoe children & Elizabeth the wife of Tho: Stewart and one Mris Braxton were not putt into the gaole
amongst the rest, but this deponents said then husband & a servant woman & 2 prentices were amongst many others then thrust into the said gaole about 3 o clock
in the afternoone, And about B A: one of the clock of the night following, The said Hugh ô Connor Charles o Conner the frier Charles Gilgin Robert Butts a
Butcher James Butts his brother another butcher her and others whose names she cannott now call to mynd came with swords Rapiers skeines & other weapons,
(as the said Edw: Newsham her then husband the on his de a t h bed afterwards informed her) into the said goale where the said prisoners were, And then and
there they the same Rebells did most barbarously and divellishly Cutt slash hack stabb wound and cutt in peeces the most of those poore protestants their
prisoners vizt Thomas Stewart aforenamed, merchant Sampson Port and his wife mr William Walsh and his wife Mr William Braxton James Scott & his child &
one Pawle, father to the wife of the said Sampson Port. John little Arthur Martin. William Doolittle, his wife & children: William Carter Serieant John Lewis
and his wiffe Elizabeth Harlae the deponents servant woman Robert Siens and William Blatt & Jeremy Blatt, her husbands late Apprentices & seuerall others
whose names she cannott remember: And then and there the said wicked Rebells gave this deponents said husband soe many seuerall slashes and cutts in his
head & shoulders that he those parts might well be compared to a griskin cutt and thick slyced to be bruiled in the fyre, with which wounds he falling downe to
the grownde & after some that were slaine falling and lying vpon him he there lay in the blood of himself & the rest vntill morning & then being fownd with 2 or
3 more alive, the keeper of the prison in the morning would not suffer the other bloody soldjers to kill them outright, But for that tyme saued their lives And then
quickly after one Robuck ô Crean at the intreaty of the deponent begged her said husbands life: wherevpon her husband having hidden some money hee & she
gaue 20 s. to come into one Dermotts Boys howse whilest she had should wash and dresse him which she performed aswell as she could, & then & there her
said husband related vnto her the manner of the said Massacre in the gaole to be as aforesaid. But they this deponent & her husband being euery howr in danger
to be murthered, did by meanes of the said Robert Robuck ô Crean procure a passe from the friers there for them and there children to goe to Abbey Boile But
her husband being extreame weake & faint with bleeding & his cloths stiff with his blood, she hyred 2 horses & for him & the Children B & gaue 22 s. for the
hire of them But had not passed aboue a myle but the wicked Rebells stripped her husband & her & her children to their very skinns exposeing his many wounds
to the snowy & cold weather, & soe shee carrying thone of her Children thother walked in her hand, and her poore fainting husband f staggering & crawleing
with extreame paine and difficulty most miraculously as farr as Ballinefadd the wicked Rebells there that then layd seige to a Castle held there by the English)
where surprised them and then and there one of them with a sword gaue her husband such a blow on his head that he therewith fell downe to the grownd, and for
all their passe shewed, they would not suffer them neither to goe to the Castle nor depart out of the towne, but at length sayd that for tenn shillings they would
saue his liffe or otherwise they would Kill him but as for her she & her children should goe amongst the English into the Castle to help to eat them out:
wherevpon she & her children were forced to Leave her said poore wounded husband husband there amongst those merciles villaines & went into the Castle,
And there she haveing a brother that was a souldier she borrowed x s. of him for redeeming her husband, & came and deliuered it to her those Rebells whoe
having received it, would not release him but quickly after hanged him to death & kept & deteined her in miserable restraint amongst them till her poore brother
for redeeming her life & liberty gave them fiftie shillings more, But how often she was threatened by those and other wicked villaines to be hanged. & how many
swords & skeines were presented at her & her children with oaths & threats to take awaie their lives: although it was very often and too true yet it may seeme B
incredible to relate, And this deponent further saith that at and soone after the said massacre in the gaole of Sligoe the Rebells there murthered in the water the
wife of James Scott & gave her such a wound in her belly that the childs Arme (wherewith she was great) appeared through the wound, and she & her child in
that posture were carried down with the streame of the River vnto a mill, where they were taken vpp, And about the same tyme there were murthered in the
streets of Sligoe fowre Scochmen that had Lately fled to the towne for succour. And this deponent was a miserable spectactor & ey witnesse when the Dead
bodies of those that were murthered in the gaole were carried out the nexte morning after the massacre Comitted, which bodies were throwne into two great
holes made in the orchard of one Mr Ricroft a late minister there, and there buried
Signum predictæ mark Amiæ Jur xijo Octobr 1644 Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton
And this deponent further saith that her now husband ffrancis Hawkesworth hath bin and is by meanes of this Rebellion deprived robbed & spoyled of his goods
chattells & meanes of the value & to his losse of 60 li. & above, & had his howse burned to the ground by the Rebells And that he & she have a charge of 7
poore children signum predictæ mark Amiæ

Deposition of Sir William Stewart 12/10/1643 MS 839 045r William Stewart Deponent Tyrone
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Captivity, Robbery,
The Right honorable Sir William Stewart of Newsteward in the County of Tirone Knight & Barronet one of his maiesties most honorable Privy Counsell of the
Kingdome of Ireland sworne examyned deposeth and saith: That since the begining of the presente Rebellion and by meanes thereof : Hee this depont hath had
three of his cheefe howses, one new built Church, twoe markett townes & certeine villages of his owne totally burnd and distroyed by the Rebells: which cost
him above twoe thousand 2200 li. 2000 li. per annum twoe hundred powndes ster: And hee hath beene alsoe & is by meanes of the present Rebellion forceibly
deprived and dispoyled of the possession Rents and proffits of his Landes worth neare 2000 li. per annum, and of eight hundred sheepe three score Cowes fforty
horses and Mares: Wheate barly oats howsholdgoods provition and other his goodes & chattells of great value: And besides all his brittish tenants that
possessed or dwelt on his Landes, were alsoe by the Rebells forcibly deprived or robbed of the most part of their goodes & meanes to their absolute
impoverishment, & his the said Sir William Stewarts further extreame Losse And saith that the names of the parties Rebells by or by whose meanes hee or his
said tenants have been soe depriued robbed or dampnifyed and that beare Armes with for and amongst the Rebells against the kings Maiesty and his loyall
subjectes and that Comitt divers great outrages & Cruelties are theis that followe a vizt Sir Phelim ô Neile Knighte Brian mc Art oge ô Nelle Captain Turlogh ô
Neile gentleman his elder brother Brian Bane o Neile of Cappey gentleman P Phelim o Neile of Ballinemurley in the Barrony of Clogher gentleman Henry
Ballaghe ô Neile of kilkarney gentleman Rory ô Neile of Cappey gentleman Hughe Boy o Neile of kilkarne gentleman, Turlogh ô Neile of Kilkarn gent Patrick
Roe ô Tharrenan of Ashragh gentleman Walter ô Tharrenan of Ashraghe aforesaid gentleman Rory mc Brian of Killamartin gentleman Cormuck ô Quin tenant to
Brian ô Neile & a great number of others their complicees and partakers A all of the County of Tirone And further sayth, that some of his this Deponents
Regiment haveing L ately apprehended and taken prisoner one Cullenan tytulary Bishop of Raphoe, and brought him beforee Sir this Deponent. He this Deponent
asked the said tytulary Bishop why it was reported amongst them of the irish Rebells that the Kings Maiesty had given them a Comission for what they did: With
this further expression That he this Deponent much admyred they were soe impudente and shameles as to divulge such a manifest wicked vntruth Wherevnto the
said Titulary Bishop answered That all the best of them the irish knew well enoughe that his Maiesty had given them noe Comission att all But he confessed and
sayd That one Plunckett had forged & counterfeited such a Comission & pretended it to be the kings Comission and that the Comon sort of people knew nothing
but that it was really the kings Comission, and that induced & led them into those their forward actions and crueltyes
Mr Dr J: Mr P Will: Stewart Jur xijo Octobr 1641 Tirone Sir William Stewart Jur 12o Octobr 1643 Edward Piggott Henry Jones

Examination of Shane O Coll 28/2/1653 MS 838 048r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Killing, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The examinacion of Shane O Coll of Ballycastle in the County of Antrim Innkeeper taken before vs the day & yeare first above written Who being duely sworne
& examined saith That he being enlisted in one Capten Glovers Companey part of the Brittish forces of the Roote under the Command of Archibald Stewart
Esquire, the same Companey for security of the Countrey were appointed to garrison at Portnaw And that vpon or about the second day of January 1641 one
called Colonell Tirlagh A oge ô Cahan & Allester McDonnell with two Companies of men fell vpon part of the said Capten Glovers Company & one Capten
Peebles Company there engarrisoned a littell before day & murdred about threescore men. that this Examinante & onely three more of Capten Glovers Company
then there, escaped to Ballycastle. That a short time after he see Thomas Robinson ledd starke naked downe the street of Ballycastle by fferragher mcKay &
Patrick mcAhoy, who with swords slashed him downe on the backside of the Stable of Ballycastle & murdred him, And this Examinante further saith That he this
Examinante mett with one Dunkin Greer at Ballycastle who was grievously wounded in his backe with a Pike of which wound he soone after dyed, that this
Examinante asked him who stabbed him And he told this Examinante that it was one Donnell McPhelomy McCormacke who now dwells at Glanbush in the
Parish of Armoy And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Recognizance of Alexander Beg Stewart 28/2/1653 MS 838 049v Alexander Stewart Deponent Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Recognizance
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The said Alexander beg Stewart acknoweledgeth himselfe to owe as aforesaid. Vpon the Condicion of appeareing prosecuteing & giveing in evidence as
aforesaid & not departing without license as aforesaid__ xx li.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Alexander Beg Stewart 28/2/1653 MS 838 049v Alexander Stewart Deponent Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing
The Examinacion of Alexander beg Stewart of Ballycastle in the County of Antrim yeoman taken before vs the day & yeare first above written Who being duely
sworne & examined saith That about 2 or 3 daies after the Murder at Portnaw which was the fifth day of January 1641 as he remembers he was present & did
see & behold when Donnoghy McGuiggan McAwley together with some of the Dullenans who are dead did kill & Murder one John Arthur Miller of Ballycastle
Milnes at or neere Ballycastle aforesaid And further he saith that he hath credibly heard that Murghy oge McMurghy of Ballycastle aforesaid did Murder a
woman at or neere Ballycastle about the same time And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Thomas Giffen 1/3/1653 MS 838 050v John Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Succour
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The Examinacion of Thomas Giffen of Tobbercough in the parish of Billy & County of Antrim labourer taken before vs the said first day of March 1652
Who being duely sworne & examined saith That one Murghy McDuffee of Cary in the Parish of Culfaghtrim about three daies after the Murder at Portnaw for
that his this Examinants brother had beene tennant vnto him saved (as he conceiveth) this Examinants life And further he saith that he was present & did see &
behold when an Irishman whom afterwards he heard was called Donnoghy McGuiggin A McAwley did stabb & kill this Examinants brother about the fifth of
January 1641 at the Port: brittish neere Portnagree & Ballycastle with a shorte halfe pike & that then this Examinants breeches were taken of his body by an
Irishman vnknowne vnto him And that there were present & neere the place where his said brother was killed neere three hundred Irishmen some lookeing on the
Murder & some goeing about the plunder whereof he knew none being then young but one Daniell Magee of Carie in Culfaghtrim parish Gent who onely was
horsed of all the said number haveing a sword by his side & a long fowleing piece in his hand, & John Stewart the younger of Maghereboy who was prisoner
with the same Daniell Magee, & that he see but three swords & two long fowleing pieces amongst all the said number of Irishmen whereof the said Daniell
Magee had the piece & sword aforesaid And that he the said Daniell Magee came vnto the said place (before his said brother was killed) armed as aforesaid &
that there was but 5 or 6 came there before him but saith he did not see the said Daniell Magee doe any hurt neither did he see him hinder any bloodshed or hurt
to be done, but rideing vp & downe amonst The Irish were there. And further he saith that he beleiveth & hath credibly heard from the Irish (but their names he
doth not know or remember) that the Laird of Traiton Gilbert B Gamill Robert Gamill & Hugh Hill were murdred the same day at Portnagree a Muskett shott
from the Place where this Examinants brother was murdered And further he saith that he heard from the said Murghy McDuffee & other Irishmen that one Jennet
Speir for safety fled into Ballycastle house where she remained some few daies & where he heard her money was taken from her by those in the house whose
names he knowes not, & that afterwards he was thrust out of the said house & murdred neere the same on the backe of the stable, but by whom that it was told
him he doth not remember And further he saith that he heard it from One hundred Irishmen at least whereof the said Murghy McDuffee C & Hugh Boy McNeile of
Ballynecloy in the Parish of Armoy are two that the laird of Traitons wife fled vnto the Gates of Ballycastle for succour, & that she was taken thence & murdred
by one Magee (as he heard) who came out of Island Magee. And further he saith That one John roe McLester now dwelling at Glanbush in the Parish of Armoy
as he heares did in this Examinants sight stabb one John Young in the back with a skeine soe dangerously about the fifth day of January 1641 at PortTimble, in a
rock where he was fled vnto for safety, that he dyed thereof about halfe a yeare after. And further he saith not.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of David Gray 1/3/1653 MS 838 052r Mr Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The Examinacion of David Gray of Billy parish Miller taken before vs the first day of March 1652 Who being duely sworne & examined saith That after the
Murder at Portnaw all the Countrey soe farr as it consisted of Scotch were running to holds & rocks & Caues for safety of their lives the Countrey houses being
sett on fire by the Irish who were commanded by A Gilduffe ô Cahans three sonnes Tirlagh oge ô Cahan Manus ô Cahan & Connagher reagh ô Cahan, who alsoe
were commanded by Allester McDonnell And this Examinante saith that at that time he was Miller of Mr Stewarts Millne neere the house of Dunsevericke & that
he flying for feare of his life towards Ballentoy sonne Musketiers were sent after him who belonged vnto the said Gillduffes said sonnes who overtakeing him
gave it to his this Examinants Choise whether he would goe backe with them to the said Gillduffe or be there killed wherevpon this Examinante went back to the
said Gillduffe ô Cahan who said he would save his life & about a moneth after he imployed this Examinante to keepe the said Mill And he saith that sometimes
he see Allester McDonnell, John Mortimer, & his said sonnes B with him the said Gilduffe at Dunsevericke. And further he saith That the said Gilduffe ô Cahan
went twice with his said sonnes & Companies vnto Ballentoy to witt at the time when the Church of Ballyntoy was assaulted & alsoe when they carryed the Saw
& the Cannon against Ballentoy house And further he saith That John Mortimer being at Dunsevericke told this Examinante that he knew by his eyes that he was a
Scotchman & that he would kill all Scotchmen And further this Examinante saith That Gillduffe ô Cahans said sonnes & their soldiers killed & murdred John
Spence & his wife & his Mother & Allester McNeiles daughter Gay Coghranes sonne &Robert McCurdiss sonne, about the 4th of January 1641 within a mile of
Dunsevericke & that he heard the said Connogher reagh D ô Cahan confess that he killed the said John Spence with his owne hands And further he saith not.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Fergus Fullerton 1/3/1653 MS 838 056r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Succour,
The Examinacion of ffergus ffullerton of the Parish of Billy Maltman taken before vs the first day of March 1652 Who being duely sworne & examined saith That
he was one of the Brittish soldiers vnder the Command of Capten ffergus McDowgall which lay at Portnaw to keepe the Bannside. That the 2d of January 1641
the Irish & Highlanders who were part of the Regiment vnder the Command of Archibald Stewart Esquire did rise in the night about two houres before day &
murdered about twenty of Capten Glovers Company & some Brittish of other Companies in the same Regiment to the number of sixty as he hath heard & that this
Examinante was the same time wounded in the head by one of Alexander McDonnells soldiers, that Alexander McDonnell gave him Quarters for his life And the
examinante being demanded who ledd & commanded the Irish & Highlanders who then murdred the brittish, saith That it was James McColl McDonnell
Alexander McDonnell Tirlagh oge ô Cahan And that in the morneing soone after the same Murder soe committed Brian ô Haggan Henry ô Haggan Art ô Haggan
& all their tenna tennants & followers being Inhabitants of Magheresharkin Parish in the County of Antrim (the said Mr Stewart being called vp with his
Regiment to quiet a riseing or vproare in the Brayd) went over the Bann into the County of Londonderry then in Rebellion & returned back againe the said
morneing with one John Mortimer & about five Companies of Manus roe ô Cahanes Regiment to assist the said Murderers and ioyned with them instantly &
marching through the Countrey sett maney houses on fire and burned the whole Towne of Ballymoney & killed all the Brittish soe farr as he hath heard that they
could lay their handes on And further he saith That Donnell Gorme McDonnell Neile oge McMullan & Neile oge McMullan & severall others whose names he
doth not know, assoone as the said John Mortimer & the foresaid Companies came over the Bann joyned with them & with the said James McColl McDonnell &
other the foresaid Murderers at Portnaw & marched through the Countrey with them (when they burned the said houses & Towne of Ballymoney & killed diverse
Brittish) all along vnto the house of Ballentoy from whence they marched to Craigballinoe & the next day day Gilduffe ô Cahan mett them & marched with them
vnto Dunluce & quartered their men at Ballymagary neere Dunluce & the next morneing James McColl McDonnell Gilduffe ô Cahan Alexander McDonnell &
John Mortimer wrote a letter into Capten Digby who with the Brittish kept Dunluce Castle, thereby summoning & requireing him to surrender the Castle or else
they would burne the Towne of Dunluce, that vpon refusall to surrender it Gilduffe ô Cahan & John Mortimer caused the Towne of Dunluce to be burned which
the said Alexander McDonnell would not consent vnto but went away with his Company The next day they marched back to Derrickighan where they made a
Proclamacion that any who thereafter spoake Englishbe should be hanged, vpon which Alexander McDonnell bid his soldiers & those D he had protected that
they should speake noe English for 24 houres being ready to fall out with the Irish that such a Proclamacion was made. ffrom thence they all Marched vnto
Oldstone where meeting with some of the Irish of the Baronies of Toome & Antrim they were neere 2000 men That they summoned Oldstone which was yeilded
vnto them within the space Of three quarters of an houre After which the Army severed & every Companey went to their vsuall quarters & this Examinante was
alsoe there sett at liberty And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of David McKenlaies 2/3/1653 MS 838 057r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The examinacion of David McKenlaies of Dunluce in the County of Antrim Cooper taken before vs the second day of March 1652 Who being duely sworne &
examined saith That he dwelt in Dunluce at the Begining of the Rebellion in Ireland. That vpon Saturday the three & twentith day of October 1641 Gilduffe ô
Cahan his son in law Brian Modder McHenry ô Cahan, & his owne sonnes Manus ô Cahan & Connogher reagh ô Cahan & Brian Ballagh ô Cahans two sonnes
with other followers came who vnto Dunluce Towne & stayd there drinking all that day & all that night vntill Sunday about twelue of the Clocke About which
time he the said Gilduffe ô Cahan Brian Modder McHenry ô Cahan with other the Persons forenamed entred & manned the Castle of Dunluce That the newes of
the Irish Rebellion on the other side the Bann did not come vnto the Brittish at Dunluce vntill about fower howers after the said Persons had surprized the Castle
which was about fower of the Clocke that Sunday in the afternoone Vpon which the Brittish in Dunluce manned the Outer gate above the Castle & then the said
Gilduffe & the other Persons forenamed drew vp the draw bridge of the Castle, & the Brittish cut of or broake vp the Conduits which conveyed water to the
Castle That about eight of the Clocke that Sunday at night Mr Alexander McDonnell the Earle of Antrims brother Archibald Stewart Esquire & Capten Digby
came to Dunluce & called before from the staires before the Castle to see who was in the Castle And the said Gilduffe treated with them out of one of the
Turretts over the Castle Gate, & after some Conference suffered them three alone to enter in And this Examinante further saith that afterwards the keepeing of the
said Castle of Dunluce was committed vnto Capten Digby & the Brittish partley by agreement with the said Gilduffe & partely by Order from the Earle of Antrim
After which the said Capten Digby & the Brittish in the said Castle and Towne lived peaceably vntill the Murder at Portnaw which was committed on or about
the second day of January 1641 Within or about fower nights after which Murder James McColl McDonnell Alexander McDonnell McColl Kittagh Randell
McDonnell Gilduffe ô Cahan John Mortimer Donnell grome McAllester, Coll McAllester Randell McAllester & Brian Modder McHenry ô Cahan with others
whom he knowes not came with all their forces vnto Dunluce, the Brittish being fled out of the Towne vnto the Castle & rocks about the Castle That they sent a
letter by one vpon a stick to summon Capten Digby to surrender the Castle which letter was signed by James McColl McDonnell & Gilduffe O Cahan & other of
their cheife leaders which Castle the said Capten Digby refuseing to yeild vp the said Gilduffe ô Cahan stood in the street of Dunluce & he & the rest of the said
leaders caused the Towne of Dunluce to be sett on fire & then murdred or caused their men to murder William Gault Merchant John Mathew (whom after they
had knocked downe they threw over the Rockes) John Arthurs throat was cutt through with a sword & two more poore people whose names he knowes not were
stript & throwne downe the steepe rocks of Dunluce All which people soe slaine were naked & unarm’d And this Examinante further saith that in April 1642
Gilduffe ô Cahan & his men burned all or most of the houses & Haggards of Corne in the parish of Ballyagherane And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Hugh Colume 2/3/1653 MS 838 058r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing
The examinacion of Hugh McColume of Dunluce yeoman taken before vs the second day of March 1653 Who being duely sworne & examined saith That vpon
Sunday the 24th day of October in the yeare 1641 Gilduffe ô Cahan of Dunsevericke Brian Modder McHenry ô Cahan his sonne in law; Manus & Connogher
reagh ô Cahan his owne sonnes & Brian Ballagh ô Cahans two sonnes with other followers (haveing beene drinkeing in Mathew Stewarts house some certaine
time before) about twelue of the Clocke the same Sunday (none being in Dunluce Castle but one Anthony Capten Digbies man) they entred into the Castle of
Dunluce about fower houres after which their Entry newes came to vnto Dunluce that the Irish beyond the Bann were risen in Rebellion, And that the same
Sunday at night Mr Alexander McDonnell the Earle of Antrims brother Archibald Stewart Esquire & Capten Digby came vnto Dunluce & the Next day Capten
Digby with some Scotchmen were put in the Castle And about fower nights after the Murder at Portnaw the Irish forces commanded by James McColl
McDonnell Alexander Coll McDonnell Gilduffe ô Cahan John Mortimer Brian Modder McHenry ô Cahan Henry McHenry ô Cahan & Coll McAllester & others
of the Irish Gentry came vnto the Towne of Dunluce & the Brittish in the Towne fled vnto the Castle & the Rocks thereabouts that the said Commanders or their
men then murdred William Gault in the Towne & another man in the bowling Green & two men vnknowne vnto this Examinante they knocked downe & threw
over the Rocks & another they was Murdered by them neere the Counting house & that the said Commanders & their soldiers at the same tyme sett on a fyre &
burned the Towne of Dunluce And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examinacion of James Widderoe 2/3/1653 MS 838 058v Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The Examinacion of James Widderoe of Dunluce Backer, taken before vs at Colerane the second day of March 1652 Who being duely sworne & examined saith
That Gilduffe ô Cahan with others whose names he knowes not were, drinking in Dunluce vppon Sunday the 24th of October 1641 in James Stewarts house
vntill about ten of the clocke in the forenoone That about that houre (there being none in Dunluce Castle but one Anthony Capten Digbies man) he the said
Gilduffe ô Cahan with some followers entred the Castle, wherevpon the said Anthony came foorth of the Castle & went & told Capten Digbie who dwelt about a
mile from the Castle how Gilduffe ô Cahan with others had taken vp the Castle of Dunluce Wherevpon Capten Digby came vnto Dunluce & alsoe the same
Sunday at night Mr Alexander McDonnell the Earle of Antrims Brother & Archibald Stewart Esquire came vnto Dunluce & together with Capten Digby went
downe vnto the Castle, & the next day by some agreement betweene them which he this Examinante doth not know, Capten Digby & some Scotchmen were put in
the Castle & the said Gilduffe & his followers came foorth After which time the Inhabitants of the Towne & Castle of Dunluce lived peaceably vntill after the
Murder at Portnaw which was committed about the second day of January 1641 And that about 4 or 5 daies after the Murder the Irish forces vnder the Command
of James McColl McDonnell Gilduffe ô Cahan John Mortimer & some others who now are dead came vnto Dunluce & summoned the Castle but Capten Digby
refuseing to yeild it, the said Comanders, or their men, sett the towne of Dunluce on fyre & burnt it & murdred one William Gault & some fower men more in &
about the Towne & rocks of Dunluce And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Edmund Bane O’Connellan 8/5/1653 MS 830 059r william stewart Victim Roscommon
Nature of Deposition: Death, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery
Att the Towne of the Boile the viijth day of May 1653 Edmond bane ô Connellan of Boile aforesaid yeoman adged aboute fiftie yeares beinge duely sworne &
examined sayeth that aboute St Jamestide in the yeare 1642 beinge the first yeare of the rebellion, There was a gr a Campe of the irish assembled at
Bellanafadda, and this examinant beinge a tennant vppon the land of Carradoone in Terrerrill beinge of Sir Robert Kings land estate was Compelled by
Cormack buy mcdonnogh a Captain then amonge the irish but since killed in action to rise with him & goe to the Campe, and hee came as farr as the next high hill
to the Boile, and sawe that a partie of that army was sentt of, vnder the Comand of Tomultagh murry mcdonnogh & Shane mcffarrell mac Manus reogh mc
donnogh two Captaines melaghlin reogh mcdonnogh of ballyndowne a seriant, Melaghlin mc fardinando mac donnogh of Bricklene, Connor mc farrell oge mc
donnogh of Beghie Bricklene Tomultagh mc Muriertagh keigh mc donnogh of Tawnaghmore in Corren dennis mc Enogly of Ballyadderowen Cahill duffe mc
Dermott of drumdoe and seuerall others, whoe entered then the said Towne of the Boile in the night tyme, fell vppon the inhabitantts thereof plundered their
houses, and killed many of them amongest whome was Sara Nicholson, william stewart and his wife murthered, And that the said rebells tooke alsoe forty
Cowes the prey of that towne, And therewithall departed, This examinant at their returne towards Ballinafadda sawe them disper dispearse themselues, &
devide that prey amongest themselues. And further sayth not onely that hee hearde comonly reported that the abouesaid Dennis mc Enogly was the man which
killed William Stewart & his wife in manner as is before expressed.
owen bane ô Connellan Deposed before mee Robert Parke

Examination of Robert ffuthy 2/3/1653 MS 838 059r Robert Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The Examinacion of Robert ffuthy of Ballymoney parish in the County of Antrim Gentleman taken before vs the said second day of March 1652 Who being duely
sworne & examined saith That at the begining of the Rebellion he was leiuetennant vnto Capten Robert Stewart one of the Regiment vnder the Command of
Archibald Stewart Esquire & that the same Regiment being by Order from the then Commanders at Carrickfergus called into the Braid to suppress any
Insurreccion of the Irish there which was at that time likely to have beene In the absence of the same Regiment in their quarters Brian ô Haggan & all the other ô
Haggans of the Parish of Magheresharkin vpon the Bannside together with one William ô Sheile of Ballymoney parish went over the said river of Bann vnto the
Irish rebells who were Masters of the feild on that side D the River And this Examinante further saith that after the said Regiments returne to their quarters at
Portnaw to keepe the Bann side against the Enemy a part of the said Regiment all consisting of Brittish (the Irish & Highlanders refuseing) went to Convoy &
secure Mr Canning & his men (who all or most consisted of English) over the bann That whilst that, part of the Regiment was bringing over Mr Canning & his
men Tirlagh oge ô Cahans Company of Irish consisting of about 40: men & Randell McDonnells highland soldiers by the perswasion & setting on of James
McColl McDonnell & Allester McColl McDonnell did fall vpon that part of the Brittish, their fellow soldiers who were left at Portnaw vpon the second day of
ffebr January about two houres before day & murdred above threescore of the Brittish soldiers That this Examinante & about eighty of the Company whereof he
was leiuetennant fled & escaped vnto Ballymoney & that some of the Brittish soldiers that night had their lives saved by James McColl McDonnell & Donnell
gorme McDonnell as John McJennett who then escaped told this Examinante & alsoe as James McConnell reported to diverse who also told this Examinante
And further he saith that the morneing the Murder was done at Portnaw diverse of the Irish came over the Bann with one John Mortimer & some Irish Officers &
alsoe that the said Brian ô Haggan & other the Haggans & the said William ô Sheile who formerly had gone over the Bann in the said Regiments absence in the
Braid, came back (as he hath credibly heard) with Mortimer & the said Irish forces & ioyned with the said James McColl McDonnell & the rest of the Irish
Murderers at Portnaw And that they fyred severall houses in the Countrey & marched vnto the Towne of Ballymoney & burnt it And this Examinante further saith
That Patrick Collier & his wife & about forty persons more went to Toole McAllesters house at Carrickirin in Derrikighan parish the next night after the Murder
after the Murder at Portnaw being the third day of January 1641 as he hath credibly heard And that alsoe he credibly heard that Patricke Colliers wife run vnto
Toole McAllesters house at Carrikirrin & gave him six pounds & a bottle of Aquavite to save her & her Companies lives After which the said Patricke Collier
& his wife with about forty more of the Brittish were close by the said house murdred by the said Toole McAllester Coll McAllester his sonn Donnell ô Cahan
his sonn in law & their tennants & freinds there assembled as one Loggan wife to John Campbell now liveing with Capten McPheadress at Loughgeill who was
then wounded & left there for dead (but afterwards recovered & escaped) did report, & alsoe as John Hunter who had his father & mother then & there murdred
& himselfe desperately stabbed & wounded being left for dead (but afterwardes recovered soe much strength as to Escape vnto Colerane) where he told this
Examinante of the said Murders by the persons aforesaid he himselfe being then at Colerane vnder Cure with William Sterlin of the wounds received by the said
McAllesters & their men at Carrickirrin aforesaid of which wounds he dyed in Colerane as this Examinante beleives. And this Examinante further saith That
after Generall Lasley in or about August 1642 had received into proteccion Toole Mc Allester Coll McAllester Donnell ô Cahan Hugh ô Heale & other of their
followers he this Examinante mett with the said Hugh ô Heale & Coll McAllester at the Cross in Ballymoney parish And this Examinante questioned the said
Hugh O Heale why he would be soe vnkind as suffer Patricke Colliers wife whom he called ffoster Mother to be killed at his fathers house who answered this
Examinante that it was Coll McAllester then present, & the wicked Crew with his father & brothers that killed her & the rest at Carrikirin & that he the said Coll
& the rest might yet be questioned for it, wherevpon the said Coll McAllester went away & Hugh ô Heale & he parted in Anger And this Examinante further saith
that the said Hugh ô Heale further told this Examinante that he went to Carrickirrin aforesaid heareing the said Patricke Collier & his wife & other the Brittish
were fled thither on purpose to save them but that they were murdred either the same day or day before he came there by the said Toole McAllester his said
sonnes Coll McAllester Donnell ô Cahan & his ffollowers & friends And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Andrew Stewart 4/3/1653 MS 838 063r Andrew Stewart Deponent Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery,
The examinacion of Andrew Stewart of Coshendonn in Culfaghtrim parish yeoman taken before vs the said 4th day of March 1652 Who being sworne &
examined saith That about nine or tenn daies after the Murder at Portnaw about 24 Brittish young & old came vnto this Examinants house at Coshendonn
(Alexander McKay haveing received order from Alexander Coll McDonnell to secure A this Examinante; which Brittish with their goods this Examinante put
into his kill that he this Examinante vpon some occasion being angry with two Irish boyes his servants they went vnto the said Alexander McKay & the companie
of Irish which were which with him about halfe a mile thence & told him how this Examinante had some Scotch hid in his kill Vpon which the said Alexander
McKay with about sixteene men came vnto this Examinantes house & demaunded of him the key of his kill & caused the said Examinante to open the doore
telling him he heard there was good store of gold & money there, & he would Veiw it, And assoone as the doore was opened all the men with him went into the
kill & tooke away & robbed the Brittish of their packs & fardells & of all their goods & moneys whatsoever to the Clothes vpon their backs That two nights after
this Examinante & all the said robbed people for safety of their lives gott away in a boate for Scotland And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Recognizance of Andrew Stewart 4/3/1653 MS 838 063r Andrew Stewart Deponent Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Recognizance
The said Andrew Stewart acknowledgeth himselfe to owe as aforesaid. Vpon the Condicion of appeareing Prosecuteing & giveing in evidence as aforesaid &
not departing without license as aforesaid_ xx li.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Recognizance of Robert oge Stewart 4/4/1653 MS 838 063v Robert Stewart Deponent Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Recognizance
The said Robert oge Stewart acknowledgeth himselfe to owe as aforesaid. Vpon the Condicion of appeareing prosecuteing & giveing in evidence as aforesaid &
not departing without license as aforesaid__ xx li. Carr 10o May 1653 The said Robert being thrice called did not appeare This Recognizance stayed from being
estreated and past appearance admitted by order of the 13th of May 1653
Richard Brasier Thomas Coote

Examination of Robert Hamill 4/3/1653 MS 838 064r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing
The examinacion of Robert Hamill of Ballymoney Parish yeoman taken before vs the said 4trh of March 1652 Who being duely sworne & examined saith That
he was one of Capten Peebles Company in the Brittish Regiment vnder the Command of Archibald Stewart Esquire And that for secureing this side of the Bann
the same Regiment lay vpon the Bannside That but vpon Tuesday the second day of January 1641 to his best knowledge James McColl McDonnell & Alexander
McColl McDonnell perswaded & tooke of the Highland Company part of the same Regiment & drew together some Irish & early in the morning of the same day
(the Brittish heareing an Alarum but suspecting noe danger drew vp towards one Coopers house) where they heard Mr Stewart was drawing the Regiment
together & in their March thither they espied A great number of men with the Highland & other Colours of the Brittish Regiment (their friends as they supposed)
and the Brittish sent one John Murdogh of to the said men whom by their Colours they supposed their owne men, to see what newes; which man comeing vp to
them this Examinante see one come from the same Highland Company & other the forces with them, who runn him through with a sword; And he saith that he see
the said James McColl McDonnell & the said Alexander McColl McDonnell lead on the said Highland Company & the Irish whom they had gathered with their
Headpieces on And that when they came neere, where the Brittish forces were, drawne vp, they went to the right & left hand & wellnigh encompassing the
Brittish (who vntill then by reason of their Coulours did not suspect them) powred in vpon them a volley of shott vpon which the British conceiveing themselves
betraied runn for their lives And he saith that of eleaven files of Capten Peebles Company he, never could heare of any that escaped alive besides himself & six
men more And this Examinante saith that he believeth that the number of them who were gathered together to murder the said Regiment were about 2000: And
further he saith not.
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of John Turner 7/3/1653 MS 838 065v Allester Stewart Derry
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Captivity, Military Action, Robbery,
The examinacion of John Turner of Colerane yeoman taken before vs at Colerane the seaventh day of March 1652 aforesaid Who being duely sworne &
examined saith That he was at Vintnerstowne in the County of Londonderry vpon Saturday the 23th of October 1641 being the second day after that the Irish
Rebellion begun in, that County That vpon Sunday this Examinante & one Mr King came to their owne houses three miles thence & gave notice of the Irish
Insurrecion vnto the Countrey And that about a fortnight after Sir Phelomy Roe ô Neiles forces consisting of Irish gained the Castle or Mannor house of
Vintnerstowne vpon Capitulacion made with Henry Conway Esquire (the Towne being first burned) & this Examinante after the surrender of the Castle went the
same day vnto Mr Conway to heare newes who told this Examinante that vpon surrender of the Castle he had eight weekes time graunted vnto him & the Brittish
to convey away themselves & their goods with bagg & baggage, notwithstanding whereof, whilst he this Examinante was discourseing with Mr Conway one
Owen beg ô Haggan came & told Mr Conway that he must be gone out of the house for he had Order from Sir Phelomy roe ô Neile to burne the Castle that night,
& that the same Castle with very much goods therein were burnt that very night, That the next morneing after the said Castle was burned this Examinante & the
said Mr Kinge & one Mr Maxwell & Allester Stewart had gathered together above two Hundred head of Oxen Cowes & young Cattell of their proper goods to
bring them vnto the Eastside of the River of Bann then secured & vnder the power of the Brittish That in the morneing being the day after the said Castle was
burnt they mett at the river side Murtagh McErlane fferiman at Clanowen with one Edmund ô Reilly John Mortimers man bringing over vnto the Westside the
Bann his household stuffe clothes & other goods. That in the said fferriman told this Examinante & the said Persons with him that John Mortimer (who then lived
on the Eastside the Bann) had forbidden him to bring over any goods from the Westside the Bann wherevpon they no could gett none of their Cattell over That
therevpon this Examinante with his said Neighbours returned vnto this Examinantes house & about 7 daies after the said John Mortimer & others of the Irish
Gentry with about 30: men came vnto this Examinante house in the night & there being with the Examinante about 7: or 8: able men with 5: or 6: firelocks they
intended to keepe the house against them, but the said Mortimer with the rest threatening to burne the house vnless it were yeilded this Examinante, & the rest
yeiled, it vppon it vpon promise to take noething from them, that notwithstanding the soldiers vnder the said Mortimer & other the said Irish by their Command
searched & rifled the house & tooke from the Examinant & the rest of the Brittish their said Armes. That at the first fight at Garvagh the said John Mortimer was
present & carryed this Examinante & about 10 brittish more as prisoners a long vnto the fight That about five daies after the fight the said John Mortimer & his
men tooke from this Examinante 140: Cowes, Oxen & steeres & all the rest of his said neighbours goods formerly hindred to be carryed over the Bann And
further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of John Moore 7/3/1653 MS 838 067v James Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery,
The Examinacion of John Moore of the Parish of ffinvoy yeoman taken before vs at Colerane the said 7th day of March 1652 Who being duely sworne &
examined saith That on ffriday the 22th day of October 1641 he this Examinante was workeing with one Quarter Master James Stewart who then liued about 3
miles from Moneymore & now in Ennishowen that one William Taaffe neere Cookestowne since lieutenant Colonell Taaffe comeing by the said James Stewarts
house the same James desireing him to stay & drinke he told him that he was invited to a share of a barrell of beere in Moneymore & that would serve his Turne
& soe went away without drinke And this Examinante saith that at the said 22th of October & some time before he was tennant vnto Neile oge ô Quin now
Prisoner at Colerane & dwelt about three Miles from Moneymore that vpon Saturday the 23th of October newes came that Money more Castle & Towne with the
Brittish Inhabitants & their Armes were surprised seized & taken by Cormacke ô Haggan the said William Taaffe (who would not stay for a drinke) & the said
Neile oge ô Quin his said landlord. And this Examinante further saith that about a fortnight after the said Neile oge ô Quin with above 20: men armed some with
swords & firelockes & others with Clubbs halfe pikes pitchforkes & such like weapons came vnto this Examinantes house & Rifled it of all the goods (not
formerly sent to Lawrence ô Cullens which the same day they tooke thence) & alsoe the said Neile & his party the same day tooke sixteene Cowes thirty sheepe
& three Mares with a Colt & foale & droue them to lissan That this Examinante haveing hid himselfe in a bush by his house he heard the said Neile oge ô Quin
aske his wife where the rogue her husband was & said if he could catch him he would cutt his head of And this Examinante further saith that the said Neile oge ô
Quin with his party of the Irish the next day after Moneymore was taken possessed himselfe of Sir Thomas Staples house at Lessan & kept his lady & some of his
Children along time Prisoners & that divers of the Brittish were murdred about lessan as since he hath heard both from Brittish & Irish & James McIvagh now
prisoner in Colerane murdred Andrew Young there, as he hath since likewise heard both from the English Scotch & Irish And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Donnoghy ô Cahan 8/3/1653 MS 838 070v Robert Stewart Derry
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery
The Examinacion of Donnoghy ô Cahan of Killowen parish in the County of Londonderry yeoman taken before vs at Colerane 8o March 1652 aforesaid Who
being duely sworne & examined saith That he this Examinante & three soldiers more of Sir John Borlases Companey garrisoning at Colerane on St Patricks day
being as he remembers the 17th of March 1641 went over vnto the Westside the River of Bann to gett some Corne (Mr Cossens Company being gon over before
them for the like purpose) that the Irish Rebells on that side the Bann seeing the Brittish provideing themselves of Corne to carry into Colerane gathered together
& came vpon those of Mr Cossens Company who were getting Corne out of William Hanna’s Stackyard & made them retreat to the Bannside That some of
Eveney oge ô Cahans men who then had Command of a Companey of the Irish Rebells gott betweene this Examinante & the said River of Bann & tooke him &
the three soldiers prisoners & carryed them prisoners vnto the said Eveney oges quarters at Thomas Hasletts house in Dunboe parish & delivered them vnto his
leiutenant Rory Duffe McCormacke & his Ensigne Edmund McCormacke who kepr him this Examinant three nights vntill fferdoragh ô Cahan sent for him who
then kept & dwelt in Aghgeavy Castle & was called Lieutenant Colonell vnto Manus roe ô Cahan with whom he abode as alsoe John Brookes & Thomas Porter
of Castle derrig neere Strabane vntill Sir Robert Stewart & Colonell Mervin with the Brittish forces came vnto Ardicleave, at which time (being about the latter
end of April 1642) the Irish burnt the Castles of Mevannogher & Aghgeavy & thence this Examinante went into the woods with Donnell ô Cahan & others of the
said fferdoragh ô Cahans Creaghts That he hath credibly heard from diverse of the Irish that the said Eveney oge ô Cahan of Magillegan did at the begining of the
Irish Rebellion murder Augheltry McClery in or neere Magillegan and that the said Rory Duffe McCormacke his Lieutenant the night that the Brittish were routed
& killed at Garvagh did burne John Hilhouse house neere Sundaies well in the Marches of the Parishes betweene Dunboe & Macosquin & that the same time he
the said Rory Duffe murdred the said John Hilhouse himselfe And further he Saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Deposition of John Harrisson 23/4/1644 MS 831 072r William Stewart Victim Sligo
Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Assault, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The Examinacion of John Harrisson Esquire one of the Justices of the peace for the County s of s ligoe & Roscom m on touching the cruelties comitted by the
Irish against the English in Connaght taken before vs his Maiesites Commissioners to that end authorised whoe being This deponent duely sworne saith that from
the 24th of october 1641 vnto the xiiith of January 1642 hee remained at the Garrison of Boyle in the County of Roscomon in Connaght where hee heard of the
seuerall passages heere vnderwritten That about christmas an n o 1641 after the takeing of Taghtample Mr William Croftons house in the County of Sligoe there
came to the garrison of Boyle one Mrs olephant wife to William Oliphant minister and preacher of gods word where this examinant faleing into discourse with
her of the passages and there being at Titample and askeing of her what became of the husband shee then a in a very pittifull maner related vnto this Examinant
that after the takeing of the said house her said husband was surprised l a i d hands one by the direccion of one John o Crean who as shee thought was the cheife
man in takeing the said house and after prest by them to become a papist and that if hee would doe soe then they would spare his life which if hee did not then not
to expect any mercy at there hands but hee continueing stedfast in his religion at Lentgh was by the direccion of the said Crean draged at after a horse Taile for
the space of a Mile & a halfe and then they perceiveing that hee was not quite dead strip stobbed with him with skaines and cut of his head. John Rodes Clothier
& his wife great with Child stealing over the curlews to vs from Ballinafad were both hanged theon at one tree theother at another this was told this examinant by
them that saw them hang there John Stananaway of Sligoe butcher with his wife and Children were to be convoyed to vnto the boyle by some of the Irish that
vndertooke to doe it ouer the mountaine of Curlews his they directed the wife and children were directed to goe before who did soe and made good hast to vs to
the boyle but Stanaway never came but was afterwards found Murthered and b y the curlews, this was told vnto this examinant aswell by Stanawaies wife as by
them that saw him lye kild in that manner After Sligoe was taken vppon quarter before Christmas anno 1641 some of the English came to vs to the Boyle others
staid at Sligoe to the number of vijen or Eightscore persons being loth to leave there litle goods and being promised to enioy them quietly. who were in a
seemeing maner made much of by Teige o Connor Sligoe in soe much that they were his day guard waiteing vppon him in the day tyme with Armes who at
lenghth being fearfull and to carry favour with with the said o Connor went all to masse and soe continued for a matter of vj or vijen weekes, vntill some disaster
hapening to the Irish party in the North one of the Gallochgers as th is came to Sligo where which in a short space all these English that were there were
somoned to be at the Goale house being then a Court of guard where meeting alltogether that night were murthered save 2 or 3 that in that hurley burley gott out
from among them and by mean s of the dark e ness of the night gote away and afterwards related t his message to some that related t his message the same to this
Examinant
The deponent further saith that as he remembers faleing into discourse with Amy Phips wife vnto Edward Nusen C lothier soone after the takeing of the Towne of
Sligoe by the Irish shee related vnto this deponent to his best remebrance that her husband received seuerall woundes in the massacre of Sligoe comitted by the
Irish against the English and that the said Edward Nusen was hanged in his wounds hard by Ballinafad w which was confirmed wa vnto this deponent as well by
the relacion of his said wife as by some of the protected Irish with vs that sawe him there hangThis deponent further saith that after the Battle of Ballintobber
which was in August 1642 some of the Trope of the Boyle namely William Stewart & Richard Constable came from t hence to vs to the boyle where relateing of
the Joyfull victory had against the Irish the said William Stewart would needs goe to his wife being the daughter of Josias Lambert Esquire to a cabin without the
walls and Joyfully relateing the said Newes to his wife a party of the Irish stood heareing him at the door who were related to be Teige mcDermot in cheife
Robert mcNemee late of Ballinespurr & seuerall others of the County of Sligoe who at lentgh broke in and said are you relateing of your Newes and soe fell
vppon the said William Stewart & hee defending himselfe dragged him into the streete & there cruelly murthered him & likewis e his wife also e & left them
both where t he y both left vppon there faces in the streete & soe they were found next morneing and they likewise killed seuerall wome men women & Children
to the number of xvijen persons some of the Children lived some two daies after their woundes given whose gutts this deponent seuerall times sawe hang out of
thre sides seuerall tymes before theire deaths
mr Jo: Harrisson Jur 23o Aprilis 164 4Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton

Deposition of Jane Stewart 23/4/1644 MS 831 073r Jane Stewart Deponent Sligo
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Death, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Signs and Wonders, Stripping, Succour,
Jane the wiffe of Thomas Stewart late of the towne and County of Sligoe Merchant sworne and examined before his Maiesties Commissioners in that behalf
authoryzed deposeth and sayth That after the present Rebellion was begun vizt about the begining of december 1641 Her said husband Liveing as a merchant in
the towne aforesaid with her this deponent as for divers xxvj yeres he had done in very good estate and condicion And haveing contynually furnished the
Inhabitants of theat part thereabouts of the province of Connaght with all sorts of wares and marchandize: & by that Course haveing acquired & gained to himself
an estate of good, value He the said Tho: Stewart and she this deponent then possessing that estate estate were then at Sligoe aforesaid by Andrew Crane of
Sligoe Esquire then high sherriff of that County: Neile ô Hart of Donnely in the same County gent Roger o Connor of Skarden in the same County gent Donnell ô
Connor ofgent brother in law to Teige ô Connor Sligoe Richard ô Creane of Tirreraghe gent John ô Crane E squire & a Justice of the peace sonn to the said
Andrew Crane, Anthony Crane ofnere Ballyshanny gent forceibly deprived robbed and dispoyled of their howshold goods wares merchandize specialties Cattle
horses plate mony and other goodes & chattells of the value of one thowsand twoe hundred powndes sterling or thereabouts which Robbery and outrage was
committed in the in or about the begining of December aforesaid att the very tyme of the Rebbells surprising robbing & pilladging of all the English and Scotts of
the towne of Sligoe; In the doing whereof not only the persons Rebells beforenamed But alsoe Teige ô Connor Sligoe now of the Castle of Sligoe generall of the
Rebells in those parts James ffrench of Sligoe aforesaid Esquire a Justice of the peace (a notorious & cruell Rebell) Brian ô Connor of Drumcleeve gent Captain
Charles ô Connor a frier Captain Hugh ô Connor all three capt ai ns & brothers to the said Teige ô Connor Sligoe Captain Patrick Plunckett nere killoony in the
same County (a Justice of the peace) Captain Phelim ô Connor Captain Teige Boy ô Connor whoe dwelt with in 2 or 3 myles of Sligoe n ere the Glann Captain
Conn ô Connor of the same, and divers others whose names she cannot for the present Remember, were most forward and cruell actors, And those Rebells
haveing altogether deprived and stripped all the brittish of all the estats they had: shee this deponent and her husband & about many other Brittish were left in
that towne, and amongst the rest there were left there which she can well remember vizt William Braxton, the deponent and her husband: & six children James
Scott and his sonn of the age of fowre or five yeres Sampson Port and his wiffe Mary Port and her father (of thage of 70 yeres or thereabouts) John Littell Arthur
Martin William Dowlittle & his wiff & children William Carter & John Lewis and Elizabeth his wiffe Robert Lyons Elizabeth Harlow and one woman that was
then great with Child & within a month of her tyme Isabell Beard whoe was great with child & very nere her tyme and others whom shee cannott name, which
Brittish people brittish (although they were promised faire quarter & taken into the protection of the said Teige Connor Sligoe, whoe promissed them a
Collection yet they were daily threatened to be murthered if they would not turne papists within one month then next after, which, for saveing of their liues they
were inforced to doe Notwithstanding which, about the vjth of January then next following, the said ô Connor Sligoe (haveing before called a meeting of the
Cuntry w his followers & kinred in the Counties of Sligoe and Leitrim: and consulted with them and with a Convent of ffriers of the Abbey of Sligoe for 3 dayes
together where they sate in Counsell) All the men women & children of the brittish that then could bee fownd within the same towne saving this deponent whoe
was soe sick that she would not sturr were sumoned to Goe into the g aole and as many as could could be mett withall & one woman were carryed and putt into
the gaole of Sligoe, where about 12 a clocke in the night they were stript naked & after most of them w ere most cruelly and barbarously murthered with swords
axes & skeanes: & particulerly by twoe butchers namely James Butts and Robert Butts of Sligoe, whoe murthered many of them, th Wherein alsoe were actors
Charles ô Connor the frier & Hugh ô Connor aforenamed brothers to the said Teige ô Connor Sligoe And saith & Teige ô Sheile Kedagh ô Hart laborer Rich:
Walsh and Tho: Walsh thone the gaylor the other a butcher & divers others whom she cannot name, And saith that above thirty of the Brittish which were soe putt
into the gaole were then and there murthered, Besides Robert Gamble then provost of the said towne of Sligoe Edward Newsham and Edward Mercer whoe
were wounded & left for dead amongst the rest & John Stewart this deponents sonn was which foure being the next day fownd aliue yet all besmeared with
bloud were with muc spared, to live the deponent. All which particulars the deponent was credibly told by those that soe escaped and by her irish servants &
others of the towne: And saith that some of the women soe murthered being bigg with child (by their wounds received) the very Armes and leggs of their
Children in their wombes appeared & were thrust out And one woman vizt the said Isabell Beard hearing the pr being in the howse of the friers and hearing the
Lamentable cry that was made ran vnto the streete and was pursued by one of the friers men vnto the River where she was barbarously murthered & fownd the
next day with the childs feete appearing & thrust out of her wounds in her sides, And further saith that on the said vjth day of January there were murthered in the
streets of the towne of Sligoe theis brittish protestants following vizt William Sheiles & John Sheiles his sonn William Maxwell & Robert Akin And the
deponent further saith (as she was credibly informed by the persons before in that behalf named: That the Inhumane Rebells after their murthers committed in the
said gaole Layd & placd c a st some of the dead bodyes of the naked murthered men vpon the naked bodyes of the women in a most immodest posture not fitt for
chast eares to heare, In which posture they contynued to be seen the next morning by those Irish of the towne that came into the said gaole, whoe were delighted
& reioyced in those bloudy murthers & uncivill actions although those Irish stood vpp And that they of the Irish that came to bury them stood vpp to the Midlegg
in the bloud & braines of those that were soe murthered whoe were carried out & cast into a pitt digged for that purpose in the garden of Mr Rycrofts (minister of
Sligoe; And she further saith That whereas the River of Sligoe was before very plentifull of fish: Itt did not for a long tyme after these murthers afford any fish at
all And this deponent saw the friers in their white habits in great companies in procession goeing to sanctify the water Casting thereinto holy water, shee saith
alsoe That the prior of the Convent of Sligoe after the murther of the said woman in the River fell franticke & run soe about the streets beating of the & contynued
in that frenzie for 3 or 4 weekes. And saith that of her 6 children 3 nere starved & died after her release of imprisonment which had bin for 18 months amongst
the Rebells
Signum predictæ mark Janæ Stewart alias Meinzes
Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton Sligoe Exr Jane Stewart Jur 23o Aprilis 1644

Examination of Allen McRee 9/3/1653 MS 838 073r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Signs and Wonders, Succour,
The examinacion of Allen McVee Cart of Stronangalmore in the parish of Armoy husbandman taken before vs the nynth day of March 1652 Who being duely
sworne & examined saith That he was a solider in ffergus McDowgalls Company vnder the Comand of Archibald Stewart Esquire who had the Charge of a
Regiment of Brittish ordered to lye at Portnaw on the Bannside to secure the Roote against the Irish Rebells on the Westside the Bann That the said Mr Stewart
about the first day of January 1641 haveing called about 14 Musquetiers out of every of the Brittish Companies lying there to releive Mr Canning & bring him
over the Bann James McColl McDonnell Alexander McColl McDonnell Tirlagh oge ô Cahan John Duffe McAllester Donnell Gorme McDonnell & such other of
the Countrey as they could gett together to joyne with them (haueing noe confidence as this Examinante heard in the Brittish) tooke opportunity by the weakeness
of the Brittish then at Portnaw, and vpon the night of the same day murdred all the Brittish soldiers lying at Portnaw except a very few who escaped & some few
to whom with this Examinante they gave quarter vnto And this Examinante further saith that the day after the Murder at Portnaw he see Donnell Groome
McAllester & Coll McAllester now a prisoner in Colerane with a Companey of Men marching, & in company with those who murdred the soldiers at Portnaw
And this Examinante alsoe saith that one or two daies after he stole from the Irish he & went to his owne house neere Ballentoy And the Examinante being
demanded who did murder Jennett Dilliston als Wilson whom his vncle John McCart had protected & kept in his house, saith, That it was three men that Gilduffe
ô Cahan sent to kill her, whose names and were Connogher reagh ô Cahan, the same Gilduffes sonne Donnell grome ô Cahan, McDonnell Modder & Connogher
ô Cahan Brian Ballaghs sonne And being demanded how he knew that it was Gilduffe ô Cahan that sent those men to kill the said Jennett Dilliston als Wilson
Saith that the said Gilduffe ô Cahan haveing called that part of the Countrey to a Meeteing at the Crough This Examinante & his vncle John McCart went there to
the meeteing & after they had sitt there a little while The foresaid three men of Gillduffes came vnto the place of meeteing & told openly that they had killed the
said Jennett Dilliston als Wilson, At which the said John McCart was very Angry And the said Gilduffe ô Cahan bid the said John hold hold his peace ffor saith
he soe long as that old woemen Jennett Dilliston als Wilson is alive she would hinder vs to get Ballentoy with her Witchcraft & soe the Examinante doth verily
beleiveth that Gilduffe sent them, of purpose to kill her, And saith that she was killed about tenn daies after Portnaw Murder And alsoe this Examinante saith that
Owen McVee Cart this Examinants vncle alsoe found fault That the said Jennett Dilliston als Wilson was killed, Gilduffe O Cahan did say if his the said Owens
Mother were such an Old witch as to hinder him to gett the house of Ballentoy he would kill her And further he saith this Examinante cannot say
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of James McConnell 12/3/1653MS 838 075v Archibald Stewart Rebel Armagh
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Stripping, Succour
The examinacion of James McConnell of Ballymanagh Cooper taken before vs the 12th day of March 1652 Who being duely sworne & examined saith That he
dwelt at Portnaw, & wrought there vpon his said trade at the begining of the Rebellion, That all the Irish on the Westside the Bann being in Rebellion & the
English & Scotch who formerly dwelt there & could not escape being murdred as he heard, Mr Archibald Stewart raised a Regiment & leaguered at Portnaw to
keepe the Bannside That Allester McColl McDonnell & Tirlagh oge ô Cahan had command of two Companies of the said Regiment & that they & their men being
Highlanders & Irish vpon the second day of January 1641 before day did fall vpon seaven or eight of the Brittish Regiments who alsoe kept the Bann side & lay
in their quarters at Portnaw some quarter, halfe mile,or mile distance one from another & murdred them all to a very few who were saved by their old Irish
acquaintance That this Examinante was taken prisoner by the said Allester McColl & Tirlagh Oges followers the same morneing, & stript, but his life was saved
by one Neile modder McMullan his neighbour That after he was taken prisoner the said Allester McColl & Tirlagh Oge with all the whole Irish of the Countrey
who after the said murder did rise with them with a great multitude of Irish vnder the Command of John Mortimer & other Irish Officers who came over the Bann
marched vnto James McColl McDonnells house at the Vow neere the Bannside where they drew vp their men & he this Examinante being carryed along as
prisoner & haveing some acquaintance with the said James McColl McDonnell he desired him to save his this Examinants wifes life who answered he could not
save his owne wife if they would kill her That thence they whole Irish on both sides the Bann there present with their wiues & Children feareing the remnant of
Mr Stewarts Regiment as he conceived kept together & marched vnto the Crosse & sett it on fire & killed all the Brittish they could lay their hands on, save a
very few who were spared by their acquaintance but afterwards if they went but out of their acquaintance sight they were killd by others of the Irish That from
the Cross they marched vnto Ballymoney & came there in the evening of the day the murder was committed & burnt the Towne & murdred the Brittish not fled
thence without distincion of age or sexe That one Donnell gorme McDonnell of Killoquin in Magheresharkin parish being with the Irish Army there tooke notice
of this Examinant & told the Irish that he would make vse of the Examinante & soe sent him the next day back againe with his Tennants vnto his owne house at
Killoquin that he see ly dead in the way as they returned at least One Hundred men woemen & Children of the Brittish which had beene murdred the day before
& that he beleives many were killed on both sides the way they returned That the said Donnell Gorme McDonnell did not returne vnto his owne house vntill 2 or
3 daies after that That all the O Haggans went over the Bann from their owne houses in the absense of Mr Stewarts Regiment which went to Maheretoghill or the
Braid except Brian ô Haggan then sicke That he staid at the said Donnell Gorme McDonnells house about a fortnight & in that time he saith he oftentimes heard
the Irish call him Capten And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Donnell crone McCart 15/3/1653 MS 838 078r Archibald Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Succour
The examinacion of Donnell crone McCart of Ballycastle in the County of Antrim labourer taken before vs at Colerane the said 15th day of March 1652 Who
being duely sworne & examined saith That he being a soldier in ffergus McDowgalls Company About the first of January 1641 to his best memorie Archibald
Stewart Esquire was desired to releive & bring over the Bann Mr George Canning who was beseiged by Manus roe ô Cahan & his men consisting of 500 Vpon
which the said Mr Stewart instantly sent orders vnto Portnaw (where six of the Brittish Companies vnder his Command lay) to call 14 or 15 Musquetiers out of
each Companey vnto the Crosse (a place opposite vnto the Castle of Aghgeavey where Mr Canning was beseiged) to ioyne with Capten Kennadaies Company
who lay Constantly at the Cross, to bring Mr Canning his men & goods vnto the Eastside the Bann That vpon Tuesday the second day of January 1641 (as he
remembers) James McColl McDonnell Allester McColl McDonnell Tirlagh oge ô Cahan & Donnell gorme McDonnell seduced the Highland Companeys being
one of the Companies vnder Mr Stewarts Comand) who kept themselues entire & sent not a man out of that Company to bring over Mr Canning (excuseing B it by
their Capten Randell McDonnells absence) & what other Irish of the Countrey they could perswade to joyne with them. And in the absence of the Brittish partie
drawne vnto the Cross for releife of Mr Canning fell vpon the remainder of the said Brittish Companies (which quartered at severall places neere Portnaw
distant the space of halfe a mile one from another) two daies houres before day, where this Examinante & 5: or 6: more of the said ffergus McDowgalls
Company were taken prisoners & their lives saved by Allester McColl for that they were Highlanders And this Examinante saith that he believeth there were
above forty of the Brittish murdred that morneing And being demanded why noe resistance was made by the Brittish He saith that they did not suspect any danger
seeing James McColls white Colours which he brought out of Scotland (through the twilight C come along with those Highland & Irish soldiers who overnight
were part of the said Mr Stewarts Regiment But saith Capten Peebles Companey haveing some Jealouslie & sending one of the Companey to James McColl to
know what the Alarum then raised meant he saith That vpon the same Soldiers comeing to him he was killed knocked in the head & they fell vpon the rest of the
said Peebles Company & killed most parte of them And that the same day John Mortimer Manus roe ô Cahan & about fower or five hundred men came & ioyned
with them & that night they sett the houses at the Cross on fyre & severall other houses in the Countrey & burnt the Towne of Ballymoney & from thence they
Marched vnto Drummart where this Examinant made an Escape from them vnto Ballentoy And that the next night they marched to Darvocke & burned as they
went alonge & killed all they could mett with And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of John McCart 15/3/1653 MS 838 079r Mr Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing, Signs and Wonders, Succour,
The examinacion of John McCart of Stronangalmore in the parish of Armoy & County of Antrim yeoman taken before vs at Colerane the said 15th day of March
1652 Who being duely sworne & examined saith That he kept his owne house at Claghnagh neere Ballentoy the begining of the Irish Rebellion And after the
Murder of Portnaw this examinante saith that he protected one Jennett Dilliston als Wilson aged about ninety yeares an ancient tennant of this Examinants, And
that he this Examinante & others being called to a meeteing which Gilduffe ô Cahan of Dunseverick appointed at the Crough about 7: or 8: daies after the said
murder at Portnaw & haveing stayd there about an houre & being sitting besides the said Gilduffe ô Cahan he did see Connogher reagh ô Cahan the same
Gilduffes sonne Rory ô Cahan Brian Ballaghs sonne & Donnell grome ô Cahan McDonnell Modder now dead comeing to them And presently they had told that
they had killed the said Jennett Dilliston als Wilson At which this Examinant was angry ffor which the said Gilduffe ô Cahan reproved him bitterly, & told him
that he would not feed & mainetaine his Mother for nothing of that age, & said that the said Jennett was a Witch & deserved to be killed And this Examinant
further saith that presently after the Murder at Portnaw the McAllesters drew together into a Company to witt Toole McAllester Donnell grome McAllester &
Coll mcAllester his sonnes & some other Chiefe men now dead & satt downe at Ligivare, and Maghrienehar & camped, there being armed with such armes as
the Countrey afforded to keepe in the Brittish garrison at of Ballentoy, & to hinder Mr Stewart to releive Ballentoy, the said place called Maghrienehar being but
about a mile from the Garrison of Ballentoy And further he saith not
Tho: Coote Rich: Brasier Major

Examination of Robert Stewart 27/5/1653 MS 839 084r Robert Stewart Deponent Unknown
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery
The Examination of Collonel Robert Stewart taken the 27th of May 1653 Who being deuly sworne and Examined saith: that hee heard it Creddibly, and
publiquely reported that Turlough Grome O Quin now a prissoner in Carrickfergus did the first night of the Rebellion, surprise the Castle of MontJoye, takeing
then to his assistance all or most of his scept or Kindered, Liuing in the Barrony of Dunganon, in the County of Tirone, but this deponent did not see the acting
thereof, for that hee then liued about 10 miles distant from MountJoy, Hee saith that hee likewise heard that Bryan Modera O Quin, then one of his the said
Turlough Gromes followers and assistance in takeing the said Castle and forte of MountJoy did within fewe dayes after the takeing the said Castle, murder or kill
ten or twelue persons of the English prottestants, men, weomen and Children. Hee further deposeth and saith that hee saw the said Turlough Grome O Quin liuing
within the said Castle, after hee and Company had surprised the same, which doth cause him verily to beleeue, that hee the said Turlough & followers did take it
from the English then there. And that the said murders was committed by the said Bryan and others of that party, they being all then vnder the said Turloughs
Commande. And further saith not.
Robert Stewart Taken by mee the day & yeare aboue sett downe Roger Lyndon
27o May 1653 Leutenant Coll Robert Stewarte his Examination versus Torlagh Grome o Quin & Bryan Modera o Quin

Deposition of Charles Anthony 12/6/1642 MS 839 096r Archibald Stewart Mentioned
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Death, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery,
The testim ony of Charles Anthony Clerke 1641 Octo: 23 Charles Anthony late of Ballyaghy viccar of Balliscullen in the County of Londonderry Clark sworne &
exa m i n ed saith that Vpon the Rumour of the late begun Rebellion the 23th of October 1641 the Inhabitants of Balyaghy in the County of Londonderry wherin
the abovesaid Ch: An: dwelt were vp in armes for ther owne defence & safety, & the 24th of 8ber by the persuasion of Hen: Conway Esquire who lived in the
Castle belonging to that towne, the aforsaid Inhabitants repayred to that Castle bringing into it whatsoever goods & provision for dyet powder & shot
conveniently they could: to this Castle repaired divers Inhabitants of Magherefelt who being driven from ther dwellings brought ther Ammunition & a rm es with
them About 4 dayes after the said H: Con: & John ffreman clerke both Justices of the peace swore all the males which were able to beare Armes fidelity to the
King & obedience to the Command of the said Hen: Con: for Martiall assayers: the same time the said Hen: Con: chose some few to himselfe for advise &
Councell, protesting that whatsoever lettres should come from any to him he would impart to them, that Joyntly they might answere them, yet performed not his
protestation but privatly receaved & answered what lettres he thought good: sending privat lettres to Art ô Mullan & his brother in law Walter Downing alias
Walter ô Lin & to the Hagans: all then open Rebells, who had Robbed divers Brittish; & the contentes (as is reported since) was that if it he might have quarter
to carry away certaine trunckes from out his Castle he would surrender it & the towne vp: which seemeth true, for till then the enimy r ebells approached not the
towne for assault, yet stoole away the Cattle therabouts but November 1o: about night they assaulted the towne firing divers houses against whom not many shot
were suffered but prohibited on paine of death: A parly being first by mr Tho: Dawson sent with the Hagans & others: & after by the said Hen: Con: with them
& as some say with Sir Phil: ô Neale, the towne & Castle were surrendred to the Rebels: on condicion of liberty for two months to export the goods: But when
Mr Con: had had taken his trunkes gon were away: the Condicions were fustrat & the Inhabitants Robd by the rebells & the remainder of the towne & Castle
fired to ther vtter vndoing: And this dep onen t The abovesd Ch: An: fleeing for safety of his liff e to mr Tho Church Esq, accompanied with William Gardiner
Junior: hoping to raise forces to beat backe the enimy, but the said Tho: Church having his Castle then but weakly mand could not spare any men or munition:
Nor wold Mr Archibald Stewart in the County of Antrim doe it who but answered that he had no Commission to send forces over the land, so that the said C: A:
staying with the said William Gardiner at Portneaw in Com: Antrim about ten dayes, after went with him to Colerainne, & having bin there there over ten dayes
was intreated by the aforesaid Tho: Church to come backe & live with him in his Castle, which by he yeelded vnto & ther executed his Ministery about 5 weekes
vntill the Irish about 2000 had overthrowne the Brittish at Garvaghy to the losse of about 200: So that now then Mr Church being surrounded by the Enimy & far
from any releife; for mr Arch: Stewart would not promise any succour if cause required but said: Then God helpe you: was constrained to leave his Castle to the
guard of James mc Donnell who then was not in accion of R ebellion & so boating his Men women & children with some luggage & all his ammunition over the
Band water marched to Coleraine, haveing receaved lettres from the Mayor & Aldermen of that towne to comme thither, which was about december 16th 1641
wher the said Tho: Church raised two foot companyes of 100 men a peece each one vnder his owne Command, thother vnder the Command of his son Mr George
Church About Christmas or a little after the aforesaid James mc Donell with some of the mc Henries & others brake out into accion of rebellion & having some
of the Scotoish Ilelanders, who revolted from mr Stewart aforsaid on thire sid: slew some of the Scottish souldiers & gained the ammunition & increasing dayly
by degrees surprised the some Scots who & many flew to Coleraine for succour: The Scots being entred into Coleraine thretned the pillaging of the towne: viz
Arch: Stewart in the hearing of him Ch: An: & divers others openly in the Market place said to one mr Cousens the Recorder of the towne: We will search your
shops coffers trunckes Chests &c for what you have & make all common & what my souldiors want you shall supply: which words not well relishedg yet by
peaceable wayes the Scots were procured to depart the towne & make good goe to ther owne Castles On ffeb: 11th: 1641 Mr Stewart persuaded Capt Tho:
Church Capt Symon Hilman Capt Michael Beresford to joyne ther forces with his to repell the Rebells, who being therevnto persuaded, led forth ther forces that
ffriday some 8 miles against the Enimy, the English being about 10 or 12 score & the Scots about 800 or 1000 whereof were about 6 score horse: They pursued
the Enimy and the Scots aiming the glory of the day strove for the Van, & having made their body full for battaile chargded the Enimy: when after aboute few shot
betwixt the Enimy & the Scots (only one Scot being slaine) the whole body of the Scots suddenly wheeled about: Crying We are all Slaine we are all slaine: &
so runing confusedly amongst the English body bare downe the English, so that there were lost as it was reported about 800 men with all ther Armes, the horse
fleeing & neither releiving nor doing execution: vpon this losse: the Scots grew a little more temperate, yet have fled into Coleraine from all those adjacent parts
men woemen & children about 5000 besides about 1000 whom Mr Stewart brought afterward in for the ease of his Castle of Ballentoy, which Number so
pestred that towne that there fell a famine & whereas the suburbs of that towne might have sheltred the most part that then that? they puld downe the suburbs &
burnt the timber, still ruining all fences of hedges pailes railes &c: for fuell, this brought great Mortality, so that for many weekes together there dyed about 11
score weekly: 1642 Ap: 2d They of Coleraine being thus weakened & the Enimy strengthened for they stoale the Cattell within muskett shott & divers times slew
many plunderers being slaine God of infinit mercy sent some releife: Captain Strong with his Maiestyes ship & Capt Hill with his Maiestyes Pinnace meeting in
Loughfoile with some small boates loaden with provision for the releife of Coleraine beat off the Enimy from ther trenches & workes & brought the boates to
safe harbour at Coleraine: After w hich The Enimy being very strong on either side: on Antrim side the Mc Donells: Coll Kittaghs sons mc Henriys & others, &
on the other side the mcCahans & others: Captain Hill also beat backe the Enimy from mount Sandy where is the great Salmon fishing which now is in the hands
of them of Coleraine & saved Castle Roo from firing which the Enimy intended few howres after: About this time the Erle of Antrim came to his Castle of
Dunluce & by lettres to Coleraine intreated p ar ley, at which parley he with the Irish Captain promised liberty to them of Coleriane for safe grasing for ther
cattell & saffly for at lest 3 miles to passe: The Erle also sent into Coleraine about threescore horses loaded with Corne for the benefit of the Inhabitants & so
the state of that town & cuntry was at the departure of this aforesaid Ch: Anthony: from thence And this deponent further saith It was also reported by some of
Coleraine Souldiers that the Rebells on their side of Londonderry County demanded of them: If the Roague the King were not yet dead: & said that they were the
Queenes souldiers And further hee saith that by reason of this Rebellion he is impoverished in & deprived of Corne Cattell goods bookes to the value of
fowerscore pounds sterling & is forc e ibly expelled from his living in that Towne of Balyaghy being worth fforty pownds per annum besides the burning of
fower English buit houses, purchased for twelve yeares lease worth with the land therevnto belonging tenn pounds per annum
Charles Anthony June 12. 1642
John Sterne: William Aldrich
London Derry Carolus Anthonius Jur Jur 12o Junij 1643

Examination of Patrick Black 29/3/1652 MS 838 104r John Stewart Victim Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Assault, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery,
The examinacion of Patt: Black of Magherauly parish aged fifty yeares or thereabouts taken at Lisnegaruy 29 March 1652 Who saith that he Liued in Killelagh at
the begining of the Rebellion & one John ffulton Liueing within two mile of the said place had his Cowes taken away from him by the Irish vpon which the said
John ffulton desired one Mr James Hamilton & seuerall of his neighbours and also this examinant to be a iding vnto him in the recouery back of his Cowes from
the Irish being he knew whither they had caried them vpon which there was gathered togeather about fifty & fiue of Scotchmen as this examinant beleeues
whereof the said Mr James Hamilton was comander & this examinant fur saith that in their way alongst the mountaine towards Michaell Doines house where it
was being reported that the said Cowes were hard by vnto it he this examinant was not able to goe alongst with the rest of his company by reason the Collick had
taken him soe very much & this examinant saith that he taried about two houres on the mountaine (with one John Mather who is now in Scotland who was not one
of there company but onely an Inhabitant there) by reason he was soe extreame sick with the said Collick that he was not able to goe & after which time he grew
haueing growne something better & was returning homewards to Church being as it was the Sabbath day & vpon his way neere vnto his habitacion he heard a
great shout of some women which cried that declared that all such as went out with Mr. James Hamilton were murdred by the Irish & this examinant saith that
about a quarter of an houre after he saw three of the said Company comeing back being wounded vizt James Lowden who is kild in Scotland & one Andrew Hart
who is an Inhabitant there now & one John Stewart who now Liues in Temple Patrick & this examinant saith that he demanded the said James Lowden Andrew
Hart & John Stewart what befell vnto them that they came home after such a manner & alsoe where the rest of their Company which went alongst with them was
who replyed that within halfe a mile or thereabouts of Mich: Doines house there came to them about three hundred Irish men who demanded of the said James
Hamilton & those in his company whither they were come thither to rob or kill or what did they want who replyed that they came vpon noe such intent but onley
to bring back Mr. ffultons Cowes vpon which the Irish replyed vnto them that they should not feare anything although there was such a number of theirs & were
discourseing a while togeather in a faire way vntill such time as the said Irish had compassed them in round about & then fell vpon the said Scotts & killed such
as could not escape from their hands or out run them & this examinant further saith that one Mr Rupton of Temple Patrick being a Justice of Peace at that time
issued forth a warrant to Cullo moder McHollan & other Irish ther liueing in Killelagh which were not gone into Rebellion to be assistants in the bringing in of
the dead Corpses of such Scotts as were slaine by the Irish neere Mich: Doines house vpon which the waies of such men as were slaine at that time & also other
of their friends took Horses & Carrs to carry them alongst on & brought such of the said Corpses as they could find vnto the old Church of Carmony in Killelagh
to be buryed of which this examinant was one which helped to bury them & saith that he knew man y of them all of which there was William Harper the elder &
William Harper younger being the said Williams brothers sonne And Andrew Sloane James Hunter John Key John BCrison George McNaught Sanders Ross
John McLarge Thomas McLarge William Gardiner Tho: Boid Tho: Grier sonne & Dauid Miller & seuerall some others whose name he remembers not being in
all of dead Corpses brought thither at that time being about 16 sixteen or seuenteen & this examinant saith that the said John ffulton was slaine at that time with
the rest but his Corpses could not be found And this examinant further saith that the said James Lowden And: Hart & John Stuart told vnto him that they saw the
said Irish take along with them the said Mr James Hamilton alongst with the m who comanded them which was kiled after by them & also that they knew two of
the said Irish which fell upon them as aforesaid vizt. Alaster McQuilin & fferdorragh McQuillin And being demanded if he doth know where any of the said
Scotts which went in the Company of the said Mr James Hamilton & escaped are doe Liue now saith that there is one James Derumple which Liues in the
towneland of Carnegrany in the parish of Temple Patrick which was in the said Company vnder the comand of Mr James Hamilton and James Harper in the
towne Land of Shane Oges towne in the parish of old Stone & Mich: Pore who Liues in Kilmakeuitt & Robert ffurmult who Liues in the towne of Dunsilly in the
Parish of Antrim And further saith not
Patr: Blacks examination Ap: 1653 Mich: Duyn

Deposition of Henry Maxwell 7/7/1643 MS 836 118r John Stewart Rebel Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Robbery
Henry Maxwell Chancellor of Sct Saviours of Connor in the Countie of Antrim sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That since the begining of the present
Rebellion and by meanes thereof hee was and still is deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of the his the possession and proffitts of his Church Liveings
leases: & of other his goodes & chattells Consisting of bills bonds debts Cattell & other thinges of the value, and to his present losse of One thowsand eighte
hundred twentie three pownds And this deponent is like to be deprived of and loose this present yeres profitts together with the future proffitts & values of his
meanes and Church Liveinges (worth 440 li. per annum) vntill a peace be established And further saith that the parties that hee knoweth to be in rebellion against
his Maiestie are theis that follow vizt Teage Boy ô Hara Esquire Call mc Manus ô Hara gent Errell ô Hara gent Sir A lex ander James Mc Donnell Baronet
James mc Donnell Esquire James Mc Henry Esquire Turlogh ô Cane gent Donnell mc Gee gent: Hugh oge Mc Cormock gent John Stewart of Glanarne gent &
Alester Roe Steward gent all of the said County of Antrim
Henry Maxwell Jur vijo July 1643
Joh Watson: Will: Aldrich

Abstract of crimes committed in Connacht undated MS 830 120r Th. Stewart Victim Galway
Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Arson, Assault, Captivity, Death, Desecration, Killing, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Signs and Wonders,
Stripping, Succour, Lost by Debts
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 soldierslanrickard 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
on Roorks patent pretends a pa ttent comission for his horrid murthers & burings but hanged a patent seale got at Mohil to a counterfet writing Engl. 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
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 deponents husband left for dead escaped to the curlewes neere 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 & Teig o Connor of the Glan. Con Connor. Owen o Rork 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 French 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 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 SligoThat 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
Depos. of John Strawley vicar of Eskagh 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 murder them all there left viz 35 amongst them William oge
Buchanan & James the weauer of Killalla or Moyne & diuers othersdrowned 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
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 killedFriars 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 robbery 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 murder 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. 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 stephen Linch prior of strade sayes it is as lawfull
to kill an Englishman as a dog or sheep murther Kedagh Ro mc James clandonel bragged he killed at shroole cruelty to the deponents 2 childrenClanrickard
releeues him & many others Archbishop 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. robbed & 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 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 Ber Edm. Burk the Lordships son. all esquires

Deposition of Jane Stewart 16/5/1653 MS 831 120r Jane Stewart Deponent Roscommon
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Succour,
The Deposition of Jane Stewart the widow and relict of Thomas Stewart merchant in Sligo takne the 16o of May 1653 This deponent being sworne vpon the holy
Ewangelist, and examined, saith that shee Liwed with her said Husband Thomas Stewart at Sligo in the begineing of the rebellion, and so soone as they hard of
the samyn, this deponent sayth that they took in all thair goods into Andrew Crian his castle, wher they remained with thair goods, till the Irish Camp cam about
the towne to besiege itt, which seige continued for the space of eight or ten dayes, att the end whereof Ensigne Cotton than Commander of the castle tooke
quarter, vpon which quarter permitted Andrew o Crian to go outt into the campe, wher he remained for the space of thrie dayes, and efterwards returned,
whervpon hee the said Andrew ô Crean told the Ensigne and the souldiers that they should submitt and tak quarter which they att Last was constrained to accept
of, And this Deponent saith that shee knoweth not the substance of the quarter but as shee was informed, they wer to hawe thair cloathes and ewerie man to hawe
fortie shillings, with a safe convey towards the Boyll: And this deponent further sayth vpon Examination that when Mr Roycroft with so many as resolwed to go
towards the boyll wer ready to go shee this deponent Desyred her husband to tak the benefitt thaireof whervnto her said Husband answered that they both wold
go to OConnor Sligo and know what incoradgement hee wold giwe tham to stay; whervpon they went, and when they cam vnto him hee not only promised to
sawe thair Lywes but also promised to mak him vp a stock whervpon he might vse his trade of merchandizeing againe, and for his present incoragdement, he the
said o Connor Sligo sent his brother Hugh o Connor with this deponent and her husband who repossessed tham of thair hous being wast and plundered of all
thair goods; And further this deponent saith that they continued for a week peaceablie in the hous, till heareing of threatening of tham for thair Lywes they went
into on Ellein Trimble her hous, from whence the said Thomas Stewart was caried into the common gaole with the rest of the protestant inhabitants, wher they
wer all murdered: This deponent being demanded who caried her husband out of Helein Trimble her house into the gaole saith that on Hugh mcGennis than
footeman to O Connor Sligo, and Donald O Beolan cook to the said o Connor Sligo, and on Phelim o Connot now Liweing in the County of Galloway, who ar all
the persons this deponent knoweth to be Liweing besyd Hugh o Connor himselff, of all the number who cam into the said house, and further saith that when the
said Thomas Stewart this deponents husband saw the said Hugh o Connor com into the house, kneiling prayed to spare his Lyff, vnto for gods sake, whervnto the
said Hugh o Connor replyed that thair should be no mercie shewed to any whelp of tham all And this deponent being further examined concerneing the
instruments of that murder which was than committed, sayth that shee herself att that tyme fell extreem sick, and in the tyme of her sicknes, some of her nytbors
and serwants cam to wisitt and attend her, who told her that the Irish kept a jurie in the abbey thrie dayes tuesday wedensdsay, and thursday till two a clock when
they dissolwed, and vpon thair ryseing they fell a murdering of on William Sheils and his sons vnder the window wher this Deponent lay, without vpon the
streets in the backsyd in a reik of turff wher they had hid thamselfs: Which when this deponent heard notwithstanding of her sicknes she ryseth and went into the
Lower roome of the said house of the belongeing to Ellein Trimble widow, wher this deponent findeth Hugh o Connor Charles ô Connor Teag buy ô Connor
Donald o Connor with the matter of Twelf more captans, all drinking in the roome, wher this deponent stayed whill they drunk fyve quarts of Aquavytie and a
beeff and halfe putt into a brewing pann for thair suppers: And att Last this deponent prayed Brian Ballagh o Rork (who was tha n in the hous but not in thair
company ) to interceid for her husbands lyff att the hands of thes captans which was Denyed, notwithstanding that Brian Ballagh o Rork pleaded wery earnestly
with tham, and really as this deponent conveaweth: This deponent further deposeth that shee is confident that the murder was committed by vertue of that
councell held in the abbey of Sligo, for at the begineing of the night befor the murder was committed, o Connor Sligo sentt on Thurlogh o Connor of Crewis vnto
that hous of Helein Trimbles wher thes men wer (who wer appoynted to be the murderers) wer drinking, desyreing them not to do any thing with the prisoners till
the next morneing that hee should sie thame wherevnto they gawe no answer, but smyled and that night the murder was committed, and further this deponent saith
not.
Jane mark Stewart her marke
Signed, and acknowledged before mee as wittness my hand. Rich: Coote
About the Murther of Sligo Jane Stuarts examinacion

Examination of Brian Ballagh O’Roirke 17/5/1653 MS 831 122r Thomas Stewart Victim Leitrim
Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Words
The examination of Brian Ballagh O Rorik Esquire now Liweing at Cornelaght in the County of Letrim; Takne the 17o of May 1653 Brian Ballagh o Rork being
examined, saith that he Liwed at the forsaid place in the begineing of the rebellion, and did now and than come to Sligo efter the surrendring thaireof, And that
hee had no hand in any thing either in Councelling or asisting any of thes persones who wer att the taking of the towne, That he newer bore armes from the
begineing of the rebellion vnto this day; And this examinantt further saith; That about the moneth of Januar in the year 1641, hee this examinant being afrayd of the
excursions of the Garrison of Mannrhammilton did remowe with his familie and Cattle, and trawelling towards the County of Mayo, on Thomas Stewart
merchant in Sligo sent vnto, this examinant, and desyred him to come to the towne of Sligo, and to interceid with Hugh o Connor and Charles o Connor brothers
to O Connor Sligo, who had committed the said Thomas Stewart and the rest of the English that wer than in the towne vpon suspition of surpryseing the Castles;
Whervpon hee, this examinant out of his reall respects to the said Thomas Stewart cam to Sligo, and found the said Charles o Connor Hugh o Connor, and the
wyff of the said Thomas Stewart all togedder in the house of on Helein Trimble widow, and efter this examinant had interceided a long tyme with the forsaid
Charles o Connor, and had spent some moneyes for wyn and other Liquor att that tyme vpon him and his company, yett was not able to prewaile for the
enlargdment of the prisoner; and being further examined saith that hee had not so much as any conception that ewer they wold hawe presumed to hawe murdered
him or any of the rest of the prisoners; so that this examinant saith hee came out of the towne that night and from that tyme he Left the County of Lettrim & Sligo
and went towards the County of mayo wher this examinant setled himself, neither ewer returned here to the Contrey till till about the year 1652. In the moneth of
May and further saith not;
Bria: O RorikeSigned, and acknowledged before mee as wittness my hand:
Rich: Coote About the bysiness of Sligo Bryan Ballagh o Roirkes his deposition Examinacion Prisoner

Deposition of John Brookes 7/5/1653 MS 837 125r Mathew Stewart Down
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Multiple Killing, Robbery
The Examination of John Brookes of Glenarme aged about eight and fourty yeeres taken the 7th May 1653
Who being Examined sayeth that he certainely knoweth henry grom magill Gillaspick mc Adeory Brian roe Magill and Brian O Mulligin with others to be of
those that wer at the Murther of Symon wallace and the rest of the thirtein which wer murthered at the hill heid of Ballygelly, And the reason of his knowledge is,
he being a prisoner with the Irish was sent forth by one Mathew Stewart, who feared there partie had bein cutt off, to bring intelligence and ryding allong the
way to Ballygelly did met with the fore said personns and seuerall others in there Companie haueing the spoile of Cowes horses and Armes that they had taken
from the murthered personns
Jh Brookes Jurat G Blundell Ja Traill

Deposition of Hugh Gaskein 16/5/1653 MS 831 129r Thomas Stewart Donegal
Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Succour,
The Deposition of Hugh Gaskein of Bondoran Butcher takne at Sligo the 16o of May: 1653 This deponent being sworne vpon the holy ewangelist saith that att
the begineing of the rebellion in the yeare 1641; he was than aprentise vnto on John Sta who was than butcher in Sligo, and att the begineing of the commotion,
this deponent with his master went into Andrew o Crian his castle of Sligo for the saftie of their lywves and goods, where this deponent saith they continued a
moneth sometymes goeing out into thair houses and at Last about the the moneth being on a tuesday the Irish Camp camp cam about the towne, vnder the command
of Teag ô Connor Sligo, Colonell; Brian McDonogh Liewtenant Colonell, Captain Patrick Plunkett, Captain Owen ô Rork Captain Brian mcSwyn Captain
Richard ô Crean, Captain Roger and Phelim ô Connors John Captain John ô Connor o Haras Hugh and Charles o Connors with many others, att thair comeing
this deponent saith they layd seige to the Castles, and possessed thamselves of the houses and places of Adwantage for the siegde And particularly this deponent
saith that Captain John o Crean possessed himself and his company in the Gaole hous, into the which house he violently entered and mad spyk holes in the said
hous to play vpon as witt the Castles with thair musquets by which meanes the Castles wer constrained to enter into a parley with the Irish camp for Lack of
Amunition; they wer drywen to Capitulatt, And further this deponent saith that after they had parleyed att first Ensigne Cotton who than Comanded Andrew Crian
his castle, brok of the parley resolweing to stand outt, and so did still they sawe this enemy possessed of The Lady Jones his Castle which was nigh adjoyneinge
to Andrew ô Crian his castle which Ensigne Cotton perceiweing parleyed the second tyme, and obtained quarter: The sume of which quarter was that the English
within the Castles were to be conwoyed safe to the Abbey of Boyll with so much of thair goods as they wer able to carie vnder thair armes, And for thes who
thought itt fitting for tha m to stay in the towne of Sligo they wer to enjoy the on moytie of all thair goods and to stay in the towne, and for thair better securitie
they wer to stay a moneth in the towne whill they resolwed what course to tak either to go to the boyll or to remaine in Sligo: This quarter was written and
signed by o Connor o Sligo and the rest of the commanders and delywered itt vnto Ensigne Cotton who red itt publickly in the castle befor the surrendering
thaireof, att the which tyme The said Ensigne Cotton mad a speeche vnto the beseigded, and told tham what they might expect was hard, if they did not lyk thair
quarter hee should stand outt with tham and lywe and dy with tham, and did particularly question ewery particular man in the castle whidder they wold stand out
or lay down thar armes or tak that q w arter that was offered promiseing friely to dismisse those that wer willing to lay downe thair armes and to giwe ewery
one of tham two shillings with his passe and to maintaine the hold with so many as wer resolwed to stick vnto him, wher vpon on Mahown Connoghan on of the
garison souldiers replyed that he was afrayd of his lyff, if he should stand outt to the vttermost and thar for was willing to receawe his pass and to go outt vnto
tham whervpon Ensigne Cotton ga u e him a pass and tenn shillings butt when he saw that non else in the castle followed his course he stayed in the castle, butt
was disarmed, and spoke vnto by the said Ensigne Cotton who told him that hee was vnworthy to be trusted in the castle for he was a coward: Butt att lentgh this
deponent sayth they wer constrained to tak this quarter, which this deponent sayth they brok imediately for so soone as they entered into the Castle, they stript and
plundered all the british that wer in the Castle and sentt tham with a guard to prison into on Mr Braxton his house and on Mr Woodworth his house, wher they
continued till they wer lyk to sterwe: Whervpon Mr William Rycroft preacher sentt out this deponent from Mr Braxtons house vnto Liewtenant Colonell Brian
McDonogh, to desyre him to prowyd him and those that wer willing to go with him, a guard or Conwoy to the Boyll according to thair quarter, which message
the said Liewtenant Colonell Brian McDonogh imparted vnto Captan Patrick Plunkett, desyreing him to Joyne in the sending of the convoy according to thair
capitulation, whervnto the said Captain Plunkett replyed th at he had go tt pressing that itt was thair duetis according to thair covenant, and that if itt wer not
performed, that god wold reveng itt, adding further that itt was the Least they wuld doe, they had mad tham poore enough; and had plundered tham of all thair
goods, whervnto the said Captain Plunket replyed that he had got nothing of tham but on ten lib and on aquawyte pott, and that he wold go no further with tham,
except they should cary tham to the gallowes whitther he wold go to sie tham hanged, the said Liewtenant Collonell Brian McDonogh replyed that he wold
endewor to doe his duties, which he did, for he conwoyed so many as went with the said mr Roycroft safe to the Boyll, Which harsh answer giwen by the said
Captain Plunkett strook a fear in the harts of many who apprehended that they should be kild vpon the way, and thairfor chose rather to stay and to enter
themselwes in o Connors Sligo his company; as souldiers to witt mr William Welsh and so many as followed him; And this deponent further sayth that these who
stayed with the said Mr Welsh and himself wer permitted to Liwe peaceable amongst the rest of o Connors souldiers for the space of about a moneth, dureing
which tyme thair was no murders committed in the county, Till about the end of that moneth being about the 6o day of Januar in the year 1641 Att which tyme this
deponent saith on Hugh o Galogher, and on James Buy o Galogher came out of the County of Downegall vnto Sligo, wher many of the gentlemen of the contrey
wer this County of Sligo wer com into the towne, and some of the gentlemen of the County of Letrim to witt: Captain Plunkett, Captain Phelim mcShan O Connor,
Brian Ballagh o Rork gent Liewtenant Colonell Brian mcDonogh Hugh o Connor Charles o Connor Donald fitz fferdinando o Connor and others whom this
deponent cannott remember who all with the said o Connor o Sligo wentt into the abbey of Sligo, haweing these English who wer entered as souldiers vnto o
Connor Sligo Collonell, as a gard att the gatte whill they had finished thair consultation, which was (as this deponent conceaweth) for murdering of the said
English and protestants who wer att that tyme in the towne, ffor immediately vpon thair comeing out of the abbey The forsaid Hugh o Galogher and James o
Galogher mett with on William sheils and his sons, with two others that wer Tinkers on a scottishman and the other an Irishman bott a protestant, who fell vpon
tham and murdered tham in the street. This first murder was committed about two a clock in the afternoon and presently efter Hugh o Connor and Charles o
Connor with thair souldiers brethren to O Connor Sligo, perswaded the rest of the protestants to come vnder thair protection and promised that they wold sawe
tham, and to that end putt tham all in the common gaole, and putt a gard vnto tham for thair per ssaftie as they pretended and after supper the said o Connors to
witt Hugh and Charles was (as itt seemed) appoynted to be the murderers; for the forsaid Brian Ballagh o Rork cam vnto tham and besought tham to spare the
Lyff of on man to witt Thomas Stewart a merchant, which they refused sayeing that they wold not spare any of the breid whatsoewer, whervpon the said Hugh
and Charles with thar souldiers fell vpon all and murdered tham in the Goall: And this deponent being further examined whitther or no he knoweth any of the
murderers to be now alywe who was than actors, he saith that thair is on Edward Herbert sone to John Herbert, Captain Hugh o Connor brother to o Connor o
Sligo Rory McMurrey son to Cormuck og o Connor McMurrey, and Connor McKey who was than a souldier to Charles o Connor now Liweing in the County of
Mayo. This deponent being further examined concerneing his caus of knowledg whidder this murder was done by a common consent of all the officers att the
forsaid Councell or nott, saith that William o Crean sone to Andrew o Crean befor any of thair bloody intentions wer discovered, went to Hugh o Connor and
desyred that he wold be pleased to spare on Henri Knott a merchants sone in England, alledgeing that the said Henri Knott his father did owe vnto Andrew o
Crean him the said William a considerable sume of money, and that if the said Henri Knott should be kild that he should lose his money,which perswasion took
place, for by this means the said Henri Knott his lyff was spared And further this deponent sayth not
Hugh Gasgein his marke Signed, and acknowledged before mee as wittness my hand Rich: Coote About the murther of Sligo

Deposition of Ann Dutton 2/11/1642 MS 839 129r John Stewart Rebel Donegal
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Multiple Killing, Robbery
Ann the wiffe of Captain Thomas Dutton of Dryme in the County of Donnegall, And Robert Dutton gent his sonne sworne & examined depose and saith say That
since the begining of the present Rebellion vi z t about the 9 th of December 1641 and by meanes thereof They theis deponents have beene & yet are deprived
robbed or otherwise dispoyled by the irish Rebells of their possession Rente & proffits of eight quarters of Land within the Barronie of Killmc Crennan in the
Countie of Donnegall worth 300 li. per annum three hundreth Powndes per annum, whereof one yeris proffitt is already lost, and they are like to loose the future
proffits from henceforth of the value aforesaid vntill a peace be established Besides the losse of a faire mansion howse, which the Rebells burned, at dryme in
the County of donnegall the benefite of divers leases horses Mares beasts Cattle sheepe Corne Swyne, howsholdstuffe provition debts & other goodes &
chattells amounting in all to the sume 4500 li. 4800 li . ster 300 perann um xli s . posten? of ffowre thowsand fiue hundreth Powndes sterl, And what part of the
howsehold stuff & goodes the said Rebe Irish Rebells did not distroy of or dispoile them of, some of the Scottish Companies vnder the Command of Captain
James Cuningham Captain John Stewart and Captain Johnnes Cuningham tooke and carried with them quite away 240 to theis deponents damage CCxl li. more,
and vpwardes more, by the direcions or consent of the said Captains They being then and there presente And further say That the parties hereafter irish Rebells
that they know are or Lately were in actuall Rebellion: and carry armes with for and amongst the other Rebells against his Maiesties Lojall subjects are &
Comitt divers outrages: & some wherof hadd & forceibly tooke away theis deponents said goods first mencioned are theis that follow vizt, Mulmury Mc Swyne
of Maughrimanaghe in the Countie of Donnegall gent whoe burnt the said howse att Dryme Mannus Mc Knogher of his whoe is imployed to murther &
accordingly hath hanged & or mu r thered divers the kinges Lojall subjects of the Brittish subject s nation in those parts, and amongst others one Robert Atkin
Clarke, beca w se he would not confesse more mony then hee had Edward Evans John Atkin & Mark Atkin & and Edward Evans John Adames and divers
others) whose nam es she remembere th not James McIlbridy of Maughrilosky in the said County yeoman a notorious Rebell whoe killd one William McKenny
& his mother in law and his wiffe and ript vpp her belly (shee being greate with child, & tooke & cutt the child out of her wambe, and cutt Tirloghe Roe o
donnell (a Captain and great Rebell of Gorttenottera gent: Captain Donnell mc Neale Mc Swyne of Castledoe gentleman another great Rebell Donnell mc Brian
Mc Swyne of Largebrack gent a Lieutenant, Dwaltagh ô Gallagher of Cashell mc Kenna gent Toole ô Gallagher of Magheryrerty gent ffargell ô Gallagher of
Ballyconnell gent, Teige ô Gallagher of the same gent: Richard Thomas of Caricke yeoman Gillaspick Mc Adeora of Magheryclogher yeoman Hughe oge Mc
Swyne of Ards gent Neale Merga Mc Swyne of Killmckillow gent: Ervan mc Swyne of Ray Esquire, Neale Mc ffaddin of Killdorraghe gent Owin Mc Faddin of
Dryme yeoman, Tirlagh Mc Caffir ô Donnell of Tullifarney gent a Captain: Hugh Boy mc Swyne of ffarker gent T i rlaghe, Tirlaghe O Rowerty of Killultagh gent
Donnoghe oge Mc Swyne of Downy gent ffargell McBrian ôf Gallagher of Ardmore gent Dermott ô Cannon of Clonmasse yeoman: Shane Ballaghe ô Gallagher
of fforagh yeoman, Tirloghe Roe ô Boyle of Killdurris Esquire, Tirloghe oge ô Boyle his sonne all of the Countie of Donnegall, And further sayth that the said
Reb ell s aforesaid came in one night into th e howse of the said Mr Robert At kin the minister ( as they had often done before & pressed And further sayth that
the Rebells alsoe about the said 7th of december 1641 forceibly expelled them of the & deprived of them of their 2 free fishings in the Rivers of Dowe and
Clouady in the said County and of the benefite thereof and of their mylls worth in all 130 li. per annum And 8 li. presente losse & much of the proffitts of their
orchard worth viij li. per annum And they are like to loose the future proffits thereof vntill from henceforth vntill a peace be established: & the Rebells alsoe
burned with the mansion howse of Drimme the village of Drymm concisting of thirteene good English howses: & plowd vp and sowed the very howstedds vpon
ther expresse confidence that noe more English shold ever dwell there.
Anne Dutton Ralph Dutton Jur 2o November 1642 Joh Watson: Will: Aldrich Donnegall
John Watson William Aldrich

Deposition of Christopher Parmenter 28/7/0 MS 839 136r James Stewart Donegal
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Signs and Wonders, Stripping,
Christopher Parmenter of Killenure in the Countie of Donegall gent sworne and examined saith That since in the begining of the present Rebellion that is to saie
the xxiijth of October 1641 & since, hee this deponent at Killenure and elswhere was deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of his Armes horses mares Debts
proffitts of lands leases & hadd his howses ruynated burned and spojled to his damage and losse 480 li. of fowre hundred fowrscore pownds xviij s. ster. And
this deponent is like to further sayth that the next day after the rebellion broke out he this deponent with his wiffe and family for saffetie of their liues fled from
his howse at Killenure aforesaid to Wilsons Fort in the same Countie where they contynued vntill May last 1643: But saith that one Robert Kilpatrick & his
family protestants that stayd behynd vizt about 6 of 7 were murtherd by the Rebells: And this deponent hath heard of divers other murthers & cruelties in the
Cuntrie thereabouts but saw none neither did he see any other extreame outrage (thoughe he is perswaded and hath heard there was many: Only hee was a
spectater when some of the Rebells nere Wilsons fort seised on and tooke a poore Smith that hadd made and headed pykes for the English whose hands therefore
they cutt of and gaue him a cruell wownd in the face cross over his nose and gaue him other cruell wownds and then left him saying (as hee after affirmed to this
deponent) that they said said they would not kill him outright but leave him to languish in misery vpon those wownds: And he heard (but was not present when
the Rebells the same day kil l d hacktgled mangled and cutt in peecs 2 Englishe men Scottish men within half a myle of Wilsons Fort aforesaid: whose mangled
& dead Carkasses this deponent afterwards sawe: And further saith That the Rebells in the Countie of Tirone have burnd with fyre and distroyed the Churches of
Newtowne and of Cappey, the Church of Ogher the Church of Clogher, the Abbey and Church in the Countie of Tirone, And the Abbey & Chappell of Rathmullan
in the County of Donnegall, & by report the Church of Killabeg in that County And this deponent hath heard it credibly reported That the Rebells in the province
of Vlster haue consumed with fyre and distroyed the Churches of Clownisse the of Balliheys, of Cavan, Belturbett Armagh Yoghall Ballimore Charlemont &
generally most of the Churches of & within the Province of Vlster And indeed this deponent hath heard & verely beleeveth that the Rebells haue spared vnburnt
& not spoiled none of the protestant Churches at all other then such Wherein they fortify themselues and keepe their amunition armes and or provision: And
further saith That Mris Ann Bastard the Relict of William Bastard late of Dunwest in the Countie of Tirone Esquire (who is a gentlewoman of good creditt) tould
this deponent That the Rebells at Dunwest when they came to robb her howse and endeavoured to kill her husband then 80 yeres ould at least) but being
prevented they threatened to kill her if shee offered to stirr or resist them, And for revendg & as a testemony of their anger then one of them rushed vpp suddenly
one of her owne children being a yong boy and held him vpp against the wall And with that another bloudy mynded vallaine run att the Chyld soe held vpp with
his sword But seuerall tymes But still mist & could not hytt him The point falling still downe or a contrary way: Soe as he had noe power to kill him but desisted
Leaving the Chyld vnhurt, which child this (soe by god almightie preserved) this deponent hath since seene in health, comen to Dublin
Chr: Parmenter Deposed Julij 28o 1643 before
Hen: Brereton. Edw: Pigott
And this deponent Christopher Parmenter further saith: That hee hath bene Credibly tould both by the Scottish and jrish: That becawse the irish in the Rebe
begining of the present Rebellion gaue out that they would not hurt nor entermeddle with any of the Scotts: therefore the Scotts did not partake with nor assist the
English, but suffered them to bee Robbed, stript and slaine in their presence, And one who was a yong man Scotchman by name John that had formerly formerly
beene servant to mr James Stewart amongst others confessed asmuch to this deponent, & sayd that he himself was for one, helped & ioyned with the said jrish
Rebells in robbing the English & gott some silver plate & seuerall other thinges from the English which the irish afterwards tooke from him againe: Howbeit this
deponent observed, that after the Rebells had overcomen & weakened the English Then they fell vpon and robbed the Scotts: And this deponent hath beene tould
by divers of the English of very good Credditt That one Henry Crosse whoe dwelt nere Clounisse in the County of Fermanagh gent in the begining of the
Rebellion comeing home to his owne howse & fynding the Rebells robbing & sacking his said howse asked them by Henry Crosse by what authoritie they did it:
For which cawse, or demand, & alsoe by reason that they hadd formerly borne mallice towards him The Rebells then & there assaulted & sett vpon him with
their pitchforks skeines swords & such other weapons as they hadd: But hee seing their armes & number being on horsback fled away to saue his liffe And that
not Long afterwards The Rebells fynding him out in a lymekill where he had hidd himself They then and there first robbed and stripped him of all his clothes and
then drive him before them stark naked to a bogg syde, & there they hackt hewd slasht & cutt him in peeces euery one striving whoe could giue him the greatest
wownds
Chr: Parmenter Deposed vt supra
Edw Pigott Hen: Brereton.
Donagall Mr Christopher Parmenter Jur 28o July 1643

Gilduff O Cahin and others to William Fullerton undated MS 837 153r Mr Stewart Victim Unknown
Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing
Sirs Wee haue newes to Comfort yow withall That Mr Stewart and Churches forces are all killed, who with noe other forces but our owne and Mr Steuart
himself wounded Therfor wee desire yow to give vp the Castle vnto vs and as wee haue a soule to saue wee will Conduct yow with a good Convoy for
Coulraine or Inver and it is best for yow to giue it vp vnto vs Rather then the Army of Tirowne that is o Coming about yow that will giue yow noe quarter And if
this yow will not beleeue vs wee will send yow Capten mc Phedrish his head Togither witheheads of fiue or six Captens More befor the Morrow at might and as
I beleeue you haue inteligence your selues alredy Sirs it is best for yow to take this Counsell for other wise beleeue vs that yow will Repent it and if yow put vs
to that payneto send downe for the apeece of ordinance bee sure of noe quarter take this Counsell in tym Soe wee expect your present answer & soe wee rest
Gillduff o cahin Henry mc HenryTorlagh o Quin? Post yow desired vs not to trouble yow any more but wee will trouble yow with this newes, which I am Sure
their is 1000 men with 15 Cullers lost on your syd and not a man in ours

Examination of Michael Pore 15/3/1653 MS 838 170r John Stewart Witness Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing
The Examinacion of Michael Pore of Killmakeuitt, husbandman in Com Antrim, aged 55 yeares or thereabouts taken the 15th March 1652 Item hee sayth vppon
his oath, that shortly after the beginning of the Rebellion, one of his Neighbours John ffulton, hauing his Cowes taken away by the Irish, he came to one James
Hamilton of Carrmew, whoe with about 90 Scotts men assembled & marched towards Mr Michael Doyns where a prisoner they tooke told them the said Cowes
were & early on a Sunday morning being the day Sir Phe: O Neil was before Lisnegarvie this Examinante being one of the Companie, they saw the Irish gathered
vppon the Hill aboue Mr Doynes house and parlyed awhyle together & when the Enemies number was grownd greater, they fell vppon the said Capten Hamiltons
men, & kild 18 of them, & wounded 8 or 9 of which this Examinante was one, & beinge demanded whoe he knew of the Irish partie, saith he sawe one Shane
McCarmucke, Rory o Quin & Pat: McGeagh, & Pat: McGourke, & some of the Macdugans there, but knoweth not whether the said Mr Doyne himself was there,
or Mr Humphry Sexton, but sayeth that Mr Doynes Gardner Allexander McQuillan was there And saith further the said Capten Hamilton was taken prisoner then,
& carryed to Mr Doynes house as he heard & by some of Sir Phelim o Neiles Troope was carryed thence to Magherlin & hanged, & sayth of the Scotchmen there
are liuing in Ireland that he knowes of John Wilson about the maine water & a sonne of the said ffultons one Robert fformans sonne, & John Stewart of Temple
Patricke & more he remembers not
Geo Rawdon The said examinant being demanded when the said Michaell Dunne went into Rebellion saieth that he went away within two days after the said
murther the reason of his knowledge is because his neighbours went to burye the dead Corpses vpo n the Tuesday followeing the said Michaell Dunne being
gone into Rebellion as aforesaid & his house burnt & that it was the common report that he hime selfe burned his said house
The marke of Michaell Pore
Rich Price Geo: Talbott
The Examinacion of Michael Pore; versus Shane McCormack Rory O Quin Patt: McIreagh Patt: McGourk Alex: McQuillin
Mich.Doyne
George Rawdon George Talbott Richard Price

Deposition of James Stewart 12/11/1642 MS 833 196r James Stewart Deponent Cavan
Nature of Deposition: Killing, Military Action, Robbery, Lost by debts
James Stewart of Killalisse in the Countie of Cavan gent being dweliue sworne and examyned sayeth That since the begining of this Rebellion he hes beine
Robbed & spoiled of eight poundes ster: per annum vltra repr out of a pole of land he houldes in fee farme forever from Sir Henrie Pearse knight and barronett
for the seavin Cowes & oxen young and ould value thrie score and fyve poundes ster:, one hundreth sheip young and ould valve twentie shillinges poundes ster:
four horses and Mares value ten poundes ster:, Corne value fyfteine poundes ster:, houshould stuffe value fyfteine poundes ster hay and turffe value fyve poundes
ster:, In all one hundreth and thirtie poundes ster:, besydes the eight poundes per annum of the land before mentioned and ten 152 li. poundes ster of debtes dwe
to this deponent by the Rebelles And the names of the Rebells that owe hom the said mony of x li. one Coll mc Auglie Patrick mc Clery Coll mc Clery shane mc
Guin Edmond mc Lurkan Brian ô Lemshy & donnell mc Clery all of the parish of Knockbride and twelue pound dwe to him by Pilladged people And further this
deponent sayeth That the goodes Cattle houshould stuffe and clothes Corne and hay aforesaid were taken and detayned by Tirlo: Barnagh o Duffie of Corvackane
in the Countie of Monaghan Patrik Grome mc Clawe and Neale o Duffie with seuerall other Rebelles of the Countie of Monaghan that this deponent cannot
Nominate, Brian mc Owen o Rellie of Killalisse in the Co untie of Cavan, Shane o Rellie of the same donell Rellie of the same, did enter and dispossessed this
deponent of his houses and land alleadgeing it is was there owen Inheritance, and Hugh oge mc Tirlo Rellie of Skea Hugh oige mc Brian Rellie of Kilca, Aghee
mc Mahowne of Cornargane, and seuerall other Rebeles which this deponent cannot nominate being all vnder the Comand of one Captane Hugh Rellie one of the
Rebellious Captanes did forceablie take away f our and twentie cowes & a horse from him And further this deponent sayeth That hand about the 23th of oct 1641
all the Irishes within the said Countie of Cavan rose vpp in Armes, and Robbed and spoiled all the British that dwelt in the said Countie, and that they made
Colloneles Captanes and livetennantes the most pairt Cavan handwpairt whereof this deponent cannot welle Nominate and hearde them generallie say that they
would be no longer vnder the English Government, and that his Maiestie should not receaue any more rentes within this kingdome of Ireland, And further this
deponent sayeth that he Crediblie hearde, that one ferrall Rellie of Lare in the said Countie of Cavan, Conor Rellie of Kilcollie, Conor Roge mc Clerie of
Maghrinewre, donell mc Clerie of Kilcollie, Mahown duff mc Clerie, Patr mc eneny, Patr: o Duffie with seuerall other Traiterouse Villanes did Murder and kill
in the night tyme, Adam bailie of Lare, John bailie of the same John waiker of the same Robert Cuthbertsone of Lisnalske John Mitchell of Corwhowrin being 80
yeare ould and vpwardes, and his wiffe neare the same age Patrik Jacksone of the same John bailie of downenie and James Bailie of Kilcally with seuerall othir
British protestant Inhabitantes within the barronie of Claughie, and would haue killed all the british within that barronie, but that the most pairt of them fledd for
there lyves And that the Rebelles (vnchristian like would not suffer them to be buryed in Church or Churchyairde hand hand And this deponent being at divine
service performed by Mr Mr George Hamilton the Rebells sayd they were at the devills service, & it were a good deed to burne the howse over their heads. &
after that the said Mr Hamilton durst not be seene in that towne becawse he was threatened with death And further this deponent sayeth That he heard one Donell
Rellie of Killalisse dromconragh say that the king would never haue the authoritie in Ireland he had before And that his lawes would never haue be noe heare as
they was any more vsed And sajth That Patrick mc Groome mc Lawghes divulge That the cawse of their insurreccion was the cutting off of the late lo:
lieuetenant & you that are Brittans will shall pay for it or to that effect
James Stewart Jurat 12 9ber 1642
Will: AldrichJoh Watson: Copy at MS 832, fols 71r72r

Deposition of Elizabeth Stewart 26/8/1642 MS 817 200r Elizabeth Stewart Deponent Longford
Nature of Deposition: Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Supporting Statement
Elizabeth Stewart the Relict of Alexander Stewart Doctor of Phissick late of Sct Johnstowne in the County of Longford sworne & examined saith That since the
begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof: Her husband & shee were expelled deprived robbd or dispoyled of their meanes goodes & chattells
hereafter expressed vizt beasts & cattle worth xxx li., one Mare, sheepe, howsholdgoods, & timber worth xlvij li. xiiij s. bookes worth 14 li. And of the proffitts
of howses landes & grounds worth clerely xxij li. per annum whereof one yeres proffitt is already lost, And besides one yeres proffitt of the Schoole of Sct
Johnstowne worth xx li. Soe that their whole present losses amount vnto the summ of Cxxxij li. xiiij s. ster: Besides she is like to be deprived of the future
proffitts of her Landes and grounds worth xxij li. per annum vntill a peace be established And further saith That she hath heard read the deposition of Robert
Colden Cleark & concerning the murthers cruelties & owtrages therein expressed and the sufferinges of his Maiesties Loyall subiects: She sayth that his
expressions of them are in all thinges true to her Knowledg And further saith That after the Rebells had given the protestants of Longford quarter and Lycense
vnder hand & seale to depart freely away with their Lives clothes and horses they neuertheles quickly after stripped them of their clothes, And being naked some
of them were most cruelly murthered by the Rebells, The murthered persons at that tyme being viijt in number.
Jur 26o Augusti 1642 The originall (being ingrossed) is in the handes of Mr Browne of the Kinges bench, with 28 examjnacions more
Longford Elizabeth Stewart Jur 26 Augusti

Deposition of William Stewart 16/1/1643 MS 817 201r William Stewart Deponent Longford
Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Arson, Killing, Robbery,
William Stewart of Corry in the parish of Clangish within the County of Longford, gent A Brittish protestant duly sworne sayth that since the present Rebellion
began vizt of or about the fift day of January in the yeere of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred forty one he hath been was spoyled and robbed, and by
force of armes depriued of Corne to the value of fiftye pounds ster: of Cowes small and great sixe and thirtye to the value of fourscore pounds ster: Of horses
young and old eleven, to the value of foure and twentye pounds ster of Sheepe fortye English, to the value of twelfe pounds ster of Garden, provision, and
houshold stuffe to the value of fifteen pounds ster: Of Houses that were burnte to the value of Twentye pounds ster: Of his Lease being for fourteen yeeres to
come, held from St John Seton worth clerely v li. per annum & he is like to loose the future proffits thereof vntill a peace be setled to the value of Threescore
pounds ster: of a gold ringe to the value of fortye shillings ster: In all ammountying in present losses to the iust and full summe of Two hundred and tenn pownds
threescore and three pounds ster: Bye the hands and meanes of Lisagh mc Garald of Drumbad within the said Countye, Lisagh mc Connell of Clonebally in the
sayd Countye, Donagh ô Bwye Buy of Letrim, Donell Maledye a Surgion with many more which the deponent cannot nominate, who being all Rebells which
Rebells came and threatend the deponent that they would hange the deponent him, And the sayd Donell Maledye tould the deponent that he would lay his body the
one side of the way and his body head on the other side and that the deponent should hand not know who did it, and offered twice to murther him, forcing him to
goe to Masse twice or thrice against his will And he the said donell & the rest comonly & prayed for Owen roe ô Neale as king of Ireland the deponent sayth,
and further deposeth not.And further sayth that one John Hussie a Rebell sometyme trooper to the lord Dillon & one that with his armes run from his lord to the
Rebells) and divers other Rebells within the County of Longford have for a long time together since the Rebellion begun publiquely & comonly affirmed braggd
and given out in wordes that they would carry over twenty thowsand souldjers of their owne out of Ireland to assist the King there against the Parliament:
familiarly & often calling those of the Parliament & this deponent & others of the English, Parliament Rogues: And saying that they would roote out all the scott
English and Scotts (whom they called Hereticks) out of Ireland, and not Leave one of them there: And that they would have none but their owne governors vizt
those of the jrishe: within the Kingdome of Ireland: And further saith That the Rebells of the County of Roscomon: have Robbed and murthered vpon the
mountaine of Slibane viijt men women & children of the Scottish protestants: 2 of which were children one about 4 another about 2 yere old, & their mother
called Elizabeth Clar was another of them soe killed & murthered, when she was great quick with chyld: And further saith that the Rebells in the County of
Longford often threatened to hang the deponent: saying becawse his name was stewart hee should be hanged a foote above the rest
Signum predicti mark Willelmi Stewart Jur 16o Januarij 1642
Will: Aldrich Hen: Brereton
Longford William Stewart Jur 16o Januarij 1642

Letter to Archibald Stewart 11/1/1642 MS 838 240r Arch: Stewart Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing
thousand men and eight pece of Artillery All my desire of doing them good wilbe to noe purpose therefore send me word what you doe therin, as for both your
hauses they shalbe safe and soe should all the houses in the Country if they would be perswaded by me: Tor Oldstone was rendred to me and all they within had
good quarters only the Clanedebayes souldiers and two regiments from beyon the ban were a litle greedy for pillaginge, which could not be helpt, As for killinge
of woman none of my souldiers dare doe as for his life but the Comon people that are not vnder rule doth it in in spight of our teeth; but for your people they
killed of women and children and old people aboue 3 score My Lord and Lady are gon to slane to whom I haue sent; tell my brother Hill and Mr Barwick that
their people are all in good health, but weares trewsus in my owne Company; I desire you not to stirr out of that till I be neere yow my selfe; for feare you should
fall in the hands of the seauen hundred I haue in the lower part of the Country; whoe would giue you noe quarter at all, but when I haue setled thinges here you
may come to me yourselfe and your dearest freinds to a few and the rest to transport them with the rest into Scotland, As for goeinge againe the kinge we will dye
sooner or my lo: of Antrim either, but their only aime is to haue their religion settled and euery one his owne ancient inheritance, thus wishinge you to take my
Counsell, which I protest to God I will giue you as really as to myselfe, and haueing the hope of your beleevinge me herein I rest
From the Callohill Campe at Oldstone the 11 of Jan: 1641
Your very loving Cossen still
James McDonnell
Cossan Archebald, I receaued your letter and to tell the truth I was euer of that opinion and soe was the most of all these gentlemen; that your owne selfe had noe
guile in you; but certainly had I not begunn when I did I and all these gentlemen with my wiffe and Children had bene vtterly destroyed; of which I gott
intelligence from one that heard the plott a Layinge; and those Captaines of yours (whom you may call rather cowboys) were euery day vexinge our selues and
our tennents of purpose to pick quarrells, which noe flesh was able to induce; and iudge you whether I had reason to preuent such a mischeefe; And I vow to the
Allmighty had they not thus forct me, As they did many others be sids me that would rather hang them goe on as they did; I would stick as firm to your side as any
of yourselues; tho, I confesse it would be the worse things for me and myne that euer I sawe. To speake to you really the truth and the true information of the
whole kingdome, vpon my creddit I now doe it, All the whole kingdome in generall are of our side except Dublin whoe hath 20000 men about it, in leager if it be
not now taken; Drogheda who hath 16000 about it and are these ten dayes past eatinge of horsflesh. Carickfergus Coulraine, and my Lo: of Clanebayes and my
Lo: of the Ardes this is the truth on my Creditt; battlemeanagh; Antrim, and all the garissons betweene this and Carickfergus are all fled to Carickfergus; soe that
it is but a ffolly to resist what God pleaseth to happen; but certainly they will haue all Irland presently; what euer time they keepe it. You may truly informe my
frends in Coulraine that I would wish they inge now they haue leasure and if they yeeld It shalbe good for them and me, for the booty shall be myne and they
shalbe sure of good place, for I will sen send for all the Raghlin boates to portrush and from thence send all the people away into Scotland; which if it be not
done before Sir Phelmyes Army comes to the towne whoe comes this next For my worthy Cossen Arch: Stewart Stewart esquire these

Letter by Thomas Richardson 27/1/1653 MS 817 304r Eliz: Stewart Witness
Nature of Deposition: Killing, Military Action, Multiple Killing
Mr Atturney I thought fitt to acquaint you, that having (with Alderman Tigh) had the perusall of some Examinacions formerly taken touching murthers committed
in the County of longford wee find (if wee mistake not) the evidence full against James mc Gerald fferrall of Coohoowre in the same County for the hanging of
one James Camell a Scottish man before Castlefforbesse in the first yeare of the Rebellion and putting a paper vppon his breast &c with evidence you will find
in the Examinacions of Robert Cowden Clerke, John Clerke and Eliz: Stewart in a paper booke also for his being in the seige and at the murther at Longford see
the Examinacions of Manus mc Tumallagh, John mc Connell fferrall and John ffox, all with the Register The Evidence to proove levallin Nugent in the seige at
Longford and that by heresay hee was at the taking of the Castle &c Capt Rory fferrall examined by Oliuer ffitsgerald then a Justice of peace, also the
Examinacions of John fferrall of Tirlicken Garratt Caron, & most full Bartholomew Nangle. Richard Cartwright proovd hee a Robbery against Nugent. soe that
doubtlesse you may proceed against them. Sir excuse this scribling of your servant
Tho: Richardson Oct 27th 1653
wee haue confined James mc Gerald to the Goale in order to his tryall though hee had before (vppon baile) the liberty of the Citty.
ffor william Basill Esquire Atturney Generall theise concerninge James mcGerrald ffarrell Levallin Nugent

Deposition of John Wisdome 8/2/1642 MS 836 014r Sir William Steward Armagh
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Assault, Captivity, Killing, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery
John Wisdome of Ardmagh parish Clerke Sowrne and examined deposeth,
That aboute the twenty first second of October last past he was forcibly robbed & dispoyled in Ardmagh aforesaith? of all his goods & to the value following
Inprimis of one Lease of a house which Lately builte lying in Ardmagh which costone building neere 23 li. 23 li.00
Item of Houshould goods & wearing cloathes which he verily beleeveth to be gone to the value of15 li.00
Item of leases of 2 other houses yearly worth 34 li. 34 li.00
Item of monies due in billes bands & Letters of Attorney all lost, as he verily beleiveth 20 li.00 which did amount to the sum of 20 li.00
Item one nagge & one mare worth 3180
Item one Clerkeship by the guift of the most reverend father in god the Lord Primatte of Ardmagh my very good lord & master yearly worth 20 li.00
By the hand e s means of Sir Phelime O Neele in the name of their gennerall, Captaine Houendon alias Ovington, Richard mc Coddam of Ar magh Captaine Hugh
O Donnell now of Armagh a Captaine, Manus O Cane of the Grange a captaine, Edmond Craly of Armagh a captaine formerly one of the inhabitants of Ardmagh
Owen mc Coddam Antient, inhabitante of Ardmagh, these commanders with theire companies, (as neere as could be guessed,) aboute 3000 men & vpward
presenting themselues before the towne of Ardmagh, in seuerall companies, parte att the one end, as the east, & parte att the other being the west end, & within a
myle or less of the towne the inhabitants & others of the country, being gathered together into the church, for theire defence & saftie, resisted them, from saterday
night morning, till tuesday night, on condition of then thay yealded the Rebells & promissed to giue a to giu vnto euery man whatsoeuer thay had lost & gaue it
vnder hand & seale one thes tearmes & conditions being able to hould out noe longer we yealded vnto them but being entred the church thay would not suffer the
English as thay had promised them to take all theire goods but pillaged that night most parte of the towne & tooke posession of many houses & sett a watch ouer
the English that thay should make noe vse of theire corne, leaueing Ardmagh for a time As this deponent hard thay gathered themselues together nere the Ogher
nere where Sir William Steward dwelt, not being able to obtaine theire desires, to reuenge themselues thay killed many of the English Welch & Scotts in seuerall
places where thay mett them, round aboute Ardmagh; after this next thay went to Lisnegarue where recing the overthro thay returnd. & by the way thay kill & the
English in seuerall places as this deponent hard comming to Ardmagh one slew 3 men & 1 weoman first William Wilson a S one Scottchman a labourer, William
John Wisdom Com Armagh
Whiles I was in Carlingford staying for a wind I saw 3 boates laden with English (which were turned out of the Newry) & sent from carlingford to Greene castle
& as the Irish reported thay were to be conuayed to the county of downe to redeeme som rebbells that the Scotts had taken prisoners one a boate lood of the 3
came backe againe & parte of them came away with vs, as for the rest I know not what became of them, its reported that those that were sent to greene Castle are
putt to death he the sayd shane confessed in my owne hearing he being inhabitante of Ardmagh also one Bryan O Neele of Armagh shott 4 shotts (as I heard) att
one William Bell a Trooper & att length killed him the rest of the companie fired many houses aboute Ardmagh & whole towne called the Lurgan & brought Sir
William Bromley his wife & children prisoners to Ardmagh Att Lagall the English, being promised safe conducte from garrison to garrison till thay came to the
next hauon & there to take shipping for theire owne country by the way som of them were murthered as mr ffullerton parson of Ardmagh all & 2 or 3 others as I
hard the rest which thay found at Lagall & aboute the cuntry to the number of eight score persons thay drowned att Porte a downe bridg as I was credibly
informed by one Will: Pitchfork of the parish of Log that was present att the death of mr ffullerton & att the drownding of the rest, & he escaped being begd of an
Irish man to be his seruante I hard after this thay fired many in one house together & burnte them nere Ardmagh These parties following being English turned vnto
them & went with them to Lisnegarue & fought there against the English Erasmus Dillon near Ardmagh freehoulder Richard Junior 2 of John Psaltertons sons
these are of the parish of Ardmagh George Litlefeild of Lagall etc these I know there are many others that I know not these I spake with att theire returne from
Lisnegarue Terelagh Ogge O Neele & collonell Richard Plunkett goeing to the Newry with theire Army those English that were in Ardmagh myselfe & others to
the number of 12 or 14 desired to be convoyed by them to the Newry which they granted vs & performed att our comming thither there mett vs of the rebbells
above 1500 men & as it was reported thay were to meete Sir Phelmy O Neele att Downe Paterick there lyeth att the Nury one great peice of Ordinance which I
saw vppon a lowe wall from the Newry we came in an open boate to sea & being putt in att the Scerryes we stayd there 2 days & by vertue of a pass that we
procured from Terelagh Ogge, & Collonell Plunkett we were kindly entertayned espetially by one John Maloone a fryrre after 2 dayes going to sea againe we
landed at hoath & came on foote safe to dublin
This deponent further saith that mr Roger Holland said to him that he the said Roger was told by John Babe an owner of a boate in Carlingford that mrs Holland
was hangd at Carlingford & delivered of a child while hanging further this deponent saith that he was told by mr Frankling of dublin who in the company of this
examinant came part of the way that at the Newry a man was carried out & so wounded that he was laied for deade, but after recovering he was of againe set
upon & murthered his wife also having her belly ript up & 2 children fell out. this the said Franklyn heard one Garos cheife officer of the Newry relate to
Colonel Plunket. This deponent further saith that at the Cor in the County of Armagh there were drowned at once 120 persons men women & children did heare
from mr Holland aforsaid. He this examinat further saith that the rebells were in hand with trenching in the Newry.John Wisdomejurat. 8. ffebr. 1641.
Roger Puttocke Hen: Jones

Deposition of Roger Markham 15/2/1642 MS 839 017r James Steward Tyrone
Nature of Deposition: Arson, Captivity, Death, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery,
A Note of what passages hapened in the Com of Tyron and Londonderry senc e the 22th of October 1641deliuered per me Roger Markham now servant and
souldier vnto Captain Bagnall sworne & examined according to the best o f my knowledge the 14th day of f febr saith That vpon the 23th of October being
Sathursday in the afternoone 1641 I the deponent being at my his then master Sir Tho: Staples his Iron workes or mills with his eldest sonne newes came to vs
them by some of the people of the towne that moneymore was burnt was seconded presently after they hard that moneymore was taken by the souldiers, we &
they imageneding that might very well be true, because then the were gathering souldiers, as report went to goe for spaine, vpon which wee repaired whome.
my The deponents master Sir Thomas Staples being then absent from whome, at Cookes Towne a place which he had newly purchassed of mrs May then of
dublin, for which purchase he gaue 300 & 40 pound not a full weeke before, he sent 2 or 3 of his men whom to Certifie his Ladye that he hard that Charlemount
& Dunganon and Monioye were taken And as I the deponent heard him Relate, first newes newes Came to him that Charlemont & Dungannon were taken by the
spaniards which he was Confident of to be falce then presently Cameth newes that Charelemont dunga and montioye was taken but by whom they Could not
Certainely know, & secrett Intelligencer in Dublin to Sir Phelim o Neile. vnder exam Maxwell Com Armagh Soe some gentlemen being present with him hee
desired them that the would take there horses and Rid with him into the feild, which was a where comeing vnto a hill somwhat neer James Stewards where they
had more Certaine newes that Moneymore was taken with the afore named places by the Irish. vpon which newes hee sent a man whom desireing his Ladye to
send him his plate and that she and here children should Come to him and that his seruants should make good the house, but before this bearer Came home to my
Ladye there Came diuers of the Irish being most, ore all of them his Tennants neere lisson the Cheife of which was Phillimie Mother O Haghane, Patrick Mallon,
Neale Oge O Quins sonn, & the Prest, and which told my Lady if she pleased to except of there seruice the would secure here from all danger for that night, shee
haueing sent most of her men to Quard home my master and the newes growinge more Common she being much astonished with feares and the foresaid Phillimie
mother O Haghan with the Rest walkeing neer the house with about 50 ore 60 more of the Irishe, she gaue them leaue to come into the house prouided that the
aboue named men should not let all the of them Come in. I The deponent being at hisy masters house all this tyme his plate being put vp in a sacke I The deponent
desired thes Irish gentlemen aboue named, that they would be pleased to leaue the house for a little space.
when seeing them out of doore I he turned into the house, but they followed him into the house very Close which mayd vs him & the rest to doubt them much thing
of them but through much perswasion and many words vsed the followed my Lady towards the gate, whoe maid as she would goe to my the deponents master it
being after twiligh. The deponent with the help of a litle boy who did serue my master did Conueaye they plate out of the house apoynting the boy to stay withe it
till the deponent Came to him Soe the dep: and a Scochman tooke each of vs. one of my masters Sir Tho: Staples horses which was then Ready sadled in the
stable I & the deponent putting one his masters eldest sonnes sword went where the boy was standing whoe Guided us them throught the inclosed feilds They
both being strangers in those partes soe we meet with another youth which my master sent to direct vs whe r we should Come. Soe Comeing to the hill neer
James Stewards and not fare from Cookes Towne I the deponent found there neere a 100 gentlemen and som 2 or 3 houres after there were assembled of the
gentlemen of the Countrie both of Scots and English about a 150 men at which tyme these words was spokenby Sir Thomas Staples Gentleman now what is to be
done, desireing them you that they you would goe home with him mee and take his my Lady and Children and soe march towards the Countie of antrum for if any
place in those parts was be safe it was is that Countie because there wer small store of Irish But ansuere was maid that Dublin and Derry and all the parts in
Ireland was were taken, as they hard som of the Irish say and Report Agayne these words passed that the Irish did not meane to Rob and spoile the Scots but only
the English. But it was agreed vpon for most voyces Carried it that they should as many as would depart home to there Lodgines for that night and the next day to
meet vpon Tullioge hill being Sunday. vpon 24th day being sunday They meet according to promisse still not knowing any thing but that all Ireland was vp in
Armes where the Cheife of the Gentry of those parts writt vnto Dunganon to Sir Phillimie O Neale which letter and was Carried by 2 gentlemen of that Contry
the one of them is this present day in Dublin that was the bearer of it, whoe Can Certifie both the Contents and answere of it as well as any on Can as I verely
beleeue, his name is mr Cardiffe a minister I this deponent spoke with him vpon the 13th day of f frebr february in this Citie of dublin. vpon which 24th day of
October towards the euening it was agreed vpon that euery one should betake, them to what Course the thought fit of for that night. In the Entrim Came newes that
mr Bradliffe hous a Justice of peace in thes parts was a pilliging with a 100 or 200 of the Irish in of these parts. Soe that my master Sir Tho Staples, mr
Bradlyffe and som 10 more Rid as fast as we Could to mr Bradlyff house where we sawe many of them. They had broken one place of the house and some had
entred in but yet his seruants kept them for do ing getting any spoyle at that tym and soe soon as they see vs Com they Ran away but we Calling to some of them
they stayed and what answere was sent by Sir Phillimi O Neale of our letter was sh oune Related in full ore part to them soe the departed for that present but
what words passed I haue forgotten.Vpon the 25th day being Munday my master sent Letters home and as I remember was interceipted by thos that was in his
house soe that his Lady Could not haue a veiw of them and then they began to pillidge some of the Scots Soe that we vnderstood that it would proue ill with vs.
vpon the 26th day being Tusday we Rid as I remember to Tullioge wher we meet but a small Company of our party but ther we Receiued som relation by one that
liued there of Sir Phillimi O Neales ingagement to vs of faire quarter in Large and full ample words Vpon S the sday 27th day as I remember there did aproch of
the Irish in thos parts which lived in thos places about a 100 ore aboue and the Came and besett the house in which we was in. I mean vizt mr Bradlyes house
and the brought a basket or Clift with Turfe and straw but we Called vnton them Soe one of the Cheifest of them Came into the house to vs whoe seeing Sir
Phillimie Neales Grant, to vs departed and left the house, but went and toke mr Bradlyes sheep but as I Remember mr Bradliffes seruant Rescued some of them
from the Rebells
Vpon the 28th day as I remember my master and I went thinking to haue gone towards his one house he haueing sent many letter and Could receiue noe answere
of them, thought at last my Ladye Came to haue the sight of some one sent by my master but Calling at James Stewards as we were a goeing we see my Lady
Comeing towards vs Soe we tooke her back to mr Bradliffes with vs but after som few houres past she would needs Returne back to her children mr Bradliffe
goeing along with her to Lisson the place of her abode. presently after my master with mr Bradlye mr Cardiffe and another minister, with other present with them
took horse to Rid wher they hard many of the Scots and English were gathered, but about 1/2 mile from mr Bradliffes house we meet with diuers Scotmen which
said they were of Capt. Robert Stewards Company soe after a short tyme of discorse they went back with vs to mr Bradliffes house were we meet with Captaine
Robert Steward. Soe we vnderstood that we should meet that night about 2 of the Clock in the morneing at Tullioge where we should Consider what was to be
done. vpon our departing from mr Bradley But soe soon as we Came home to mr Bradliffes some of the Company belonging to Capt. Stweward kept my master
horses from him toke away my sword and vpon our departure from mr Bradliffes house took away his Caddowes and shits of from his bed took away his horses
Soe that for ought as I know that was the Cause he was left as a pray to the Rebell and when I demanded from the said Capt Robert Stuart his sword and his I
received this answer that I might better have looked to it and that he know not how to it and when the said house of Mr Bradley was robbed the said Robert
stuart quarter of an hour he knew of it Soe Comeing to the Ogher about 8 or 9 of the Clock in the night that present day before the enimye had abroched neer vnto
to the towne and as the Related were about 500 men but they of the Ogher issued out about 80 horse men and killed about 80 of the enemie and took 16
prissoners and lost but one man which were ther Capt. and he was shot as ther wer a marching with a foulling peece by on lying in a dich.
The next day we march into the feild vpon a hill neer the Ogher were it was thoug we wer about 15 or 16 hundred men being much incoraged by the former day
Conquest of our enimye desireing to goe to dunganon agaynst Sir Phillimie but som of our sid went abroad and took much Cattell and our Randevoze was
apoynted next morneing at the Clogher. where we meet all or most of vs with a thursting desire to see the face of our enemye but presently Came notice to vs that
Sir William Stewart would Returne back to his owne part and did accordingly where my master asked William Steward what his intention was as I hard my
master relate whoe answere to my master was that it was best for him for and for his owne safegard to goe along with Sir William Stewarte for he knew non
other way but that they must goe and mak there peace with the enemye if the Could, soe my master went along to newtowne with Sir William Stewart which night
after we Lodged at the Omie. which night Came Capt. Marvene to the Omie not knowing of our being ther but was intended as he said to goe to newtown to gett
some 50 men from Sir William Stewart to fecth away his wiffe and Children and other goods, the next morneing he desired 50 men of Sir William Steward to
fecth away his wiff and children whoe denied him any helpe soe Capt. marvene vowed to god he would goe with thos 3 or 4 men of his owne thought he
perished. morouer Capt. marvene desired but a 100 or ther aboute of men and he would keep garrison at the Omie which he denyed him likwise.
Soe my master with other few gentlemen went within a day or 2 to derry wher about a week after we hard that Collonell Sanderson was Comd to newtowne and
about 200 men with him. After we parted from Ogher leaueing William Steward and Collonell Sanderson with thos 600 men or ther abouts that lived in the
glines the Ralation I hard by some that was there was thus. after our departur the staied a day ore 2 and then marched from the Ogher with an intention to goe for
there owne parts but they was not aboue a mile or 2 from the town before the saw the towne set one fir by the enemye but vpon march and after, words passed
betuixt william Steward & Collonell Sanderson Collonell Sanderson returned back to newtown with about 200 men wher he meet with Captaine marvene at the
Omie and his wiffe and Children who Cam along to new town with him. But william Stweward with about 3 or 4 hundred men with him went back toward the
glines, who Comeing to his sones house say thes words as I heard reported Gentlemen I haue brought you safe hether now shift for you selues which we hard
was all Cut of by the enemy or mad slaues to them and was sworne to obserue ther Commands besid many wemen and Children that perished they said william
Steward was turned Rebell James Steward & Andrew Steward To the great incouragment of the enemy for whillest were were all at the Ogher, many would
haue taken protection but after our departur the grew most desparat as many did Relat. before I Cam from derry Capt. marvene marched as I hard Reported both
by others and himselfe to Releeue the Ogher Cast Castle in which was said to be about a 1000 wemen and Children at which tyme he went and tooke dannagh
mcQuere Castsle in which they killed about 14 men he burnt diuers parts ther about and took much spoyle soe mr Askin and all the rest left the Ogher. But I hard
mr Askin Relate this that he offered to a 100 men 200 li. for euery 3 weeks they staied there he layd them 60 li. vpon table and for the rest he would ingage his
lands nay he sayd moreouer if 6 men would stay with him he would not leaue it. for I hard diuers say that Sir Phillimie O Neale and Rory mcQuere layd seige
agaynst them for a week and shot kontinually agaynst them in the night with a feild peece which entred the Roofe but Could doe them noe hurt the enemy
aproched soe neer the watt that they lay hold one ther pikes and on the mouths of the muskets but but they left ther seige with the lose of many of there men
Likwise I hard Reported whilest I was ther that Sir Ralfe Gore with about 200 hundred horse and 3 or 4 score foot slew 100 of the enemy and lost not one man
Soe I left the Citie of derry.
vpon a munday night the Bishop of derry the bishop of Clog Sir Thomas Staples mr Newberye mr Browne and ther attendance tooke boot to Com to there
shipping which laye in the Lough almost agaynst Redd Castle wher passing by Killmore it being a very Calme moon shine night exspecting to haue him stayed
there but we hard not the left stire thought which we did much admire that ther nectlet should be soe great in such dangerous tymes. Ther was much admireing
that Sir John Vaughan would trust shan O cahan with Armes for 1000 men whoe after we Came from derry brook forth into Rebellion as was told us for Certaine.
It had bin often desired by my master and others that they would put the Irish out of derry which we hard the did 300 men in one day and pulled downe the
subberbe we staied in the Lought from munday night till Satursday morneing following where we vnderstood by Sir John Vaugham that at Garuagh the enemy Cutt
of our scouts and soe Cam suddenly vpon the town and of Cutt of all our garrisson which as the Report went were about 4 or 5 hundred of our men after which.
As we were a ship bord we see for 2 dayes and 2 night alwayes some towne or place a fire. at soms tymes in the night we did see litle lesse then 20 fire at a tym
which some of thos them present knew to be the Nuffe Ballykilly newtowne Athlow & Lemonaddy and as we hard all within a mile of Colrane and within a mile
of derry was Burnt by the enemye for my owne losse in particular I have lost what I haue laboured for euer sence I was 17 or 18 yeares of age I have lost all my
labours and study which I valued worth much when another would think them worth litle I have lost all my written hand Books both of Arithmaticke and
Geometrie. I have Lost my Instruments both Arithmaticall and Geometricall. I lost all my Cloaths but what I had one my back with som money all which might
not haue been worth 10 li. to another yet I had Rather haue Lost 20 li. for my master Sir Thomas Staples I haue oft hard him say he had lost 4000 li. personall
estate besid the Reuenews of his lands. This is the Relation of Roger Markham seruant and souldier vnto Capt. Bagnall th the 14th day of ffebruary 1641
Roger Markham deposed before vs Jur febr .15. 1641.
Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton
Roger Markham further deposseth that he hard my Lord of Derry say that he was Comonly Called Rebell by some of the Scots or English in those parts, further I
hard his man Relate to him that 80 of the Scots & English Came to the ffaunnit to billet ther and to eat vp what prouision the Could get heareing of ther vpon
which newes he intended to Come along with Sir Thomas Staples for Dublin.
Roger Markham

Deposition of William Walsh 28/2/1644 MS 831 065r Thomas Steward Victim Sligo
Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Succour, Lost by debts
William Walsh Sonne to William Walsh late of Sligo in the Countie of Sligo gent: deceased who with his wife and Thirtie eight Protestants more of the Brittish,
were at midnight in the month of January 1641 inhumanely murthered in the goale of Sligo, after they were taken into the protection of Teige o Connor Sligo)
deposeth and saith . sworn and examined before his Maiesties Commissioners deposeth and saith That his said father in his Life time was deprived and robbed
by the rebells of his meanes and goods by the Rebells heerein heereafter mentioned (vizt) Of coyne in silver and gold, the summe of one hundred and forty
poundes ster or thereabouts, of Seaventeene gold ringes and Braceletts worth Thirtie poundes belonging to his mother Elizabeth Walsh then likewise murthered.
Of three silver Bowles one dozen and halfe of silver spoones, and a silver Salt worth eighteene poundes. of three firelocks, fiue Musquetts, one sword and
Pistoll worth Tenne poundes. Of sixscore cowes fiftie horses, and two hundred sheepe, worth Three hundred poundes or thereabouts. Of the moyetie of the
profitts of the customes of the faires and marketts of Sligo and the moyetie of the half quarter of Knockneganny held by a Long Lease, for which he paid a great
fine worth yearely over and aboue the Lo: rent fiftie poundes sterling Whereof he accompteth 3 yeres proffitt losse & he is like the future is Like to be lost vntill
a peace et c. Of the profitts of a farmes of a quarter of land and the profitte of the faires and marketts in Temple house, which he held by lease from William
Crofton esquire worth yearely (over and aboue the Lo rent) two and twentie poundes ster. whereof he acco mpteth three yeres proffitt lost besids the future wilbe
lost vntill a peace etc of wheate Malt, oates, Rie, Barly, and all other manner of corne drest a nd vndrest worth two hundred and fiftie poundes ster or
thereabouts of Bedds, Bolsters, Pillowes, Rugges Caddowes and Curtaines worth fiftie pounds or thereabouts of Holland, Scotch cloath, Camrick, Diaper,
Damask, fflaxen and all other sorts of wearing linnen worth forty poundes of Wollen cloathes of his fathers, mothers and fiue children worth Thirtie poundes. of
all sorts of Pewter and Brass as Brewing pans, Candlesticks , Skillets and Posnetts worth Thirtie fowre poundes. of Iron of howshold goods of potts, S p i tt s,
Trippetts, dripping pans, plow Irons and other Irons belonging to a house worth Tenne poundes. Of Meale, Butter, Brasse Bacon, Salt and all other of provision
worth Twentie poundes of Beddsteeds, Cubbards, Chaires Stooles, Trunckes present Losse 1254 li. future 72 li. per annum Tables and all manner of Brewing
vessells worth Tenne poundes, of houses built by the deponents father in Sligo which cost him one hundred poundes at least. And saith that These vndernamed
persons being rebells were at the Seige and Taking of Sligo and devided the before mentioned goods and Chattells betweene amongst them, and the goods and
Chattells of the rest of the Protestants of Sligo vizt which Rebells are thus named vizt A Teige o Connor Sligo reputed Generall of the Rebells in those partes Mr
Bryan o Conner, Captain Charles o Connor a fryar Captain Hugh o Conner all brothers vnto the said o Connor Sligo, Captain Bryan mcDonnogh, Captain Luke
Taaffe Captain ffrancis Taaffe, Captain Patrick Plunckett, Captain Donell mcBryan Darrogh o Connor, Captain John o Crean, Captain Bryan mcSwine, Captain
Roger mcOwen mcSwine, Captain Phelim Mc ô Connor, Captain Teige boy o Connor, Captain Teige o Connor of the Glan Captain Con o Connor of the same
Collonell Owen o Royrke Captain mcOwen oge o Royrke, Captain Bryan ballagh o Royrke Captain Teige mcBryan ballagh o Royrke, Captain Hugh mcDonnogh
Captain Robert mcNemey, Captain William oge mcPhelim mcGlonnagh of the Dartry in the County of Letrim, Captain Teige mcPhelim mcGlonnagh of the same,
Captain William mcGlonnagh of the same Mr Mr Kedagh o Bannaghan gent Mr Mr James ffrench and Jeffry ffrench his sonne, and Edmond mcBryan mcSwine,
Guardian of the Dominicans of the Abby of Sligo. But for the rest of their confederates this deponent cannot for the present remember. their names. His cause of
knowledge is that he this deponent was present when the before mencioned Rebells and their confederates forciblie tooke the towne of Sligo and deprived his
this deponents father and the rest of the Protestants their of all their goods and Chattells And this deponent further saith that when the said Captain Luke Taaffe
and Captain Bryan mcDonnogh were raised to greater comandes by the Irish in their Army, they the said Luke Taaffe and Bryan mcDonnogh, and divers the
before mentioned Captains (accompanied with greate numbers of Armed men) then vnder their comand) did (vpon Easter Eue last) 1643 March towards Mannor
Hamilton in the
Countie of Letrim of purpose to kill and destroy the Brittish Protestants there, and to despoile them of their goods and Chattells. At which time it pleased God
that in the fight betweene the Brittish then engarrisoned at Mannorhamilton and the said Rebells, the said Bryan mcDonnogh was then by the Brittish killed, and
the rest of his confederates routed and put to flight, his cause of knowledge is for that he this deponent was sometimes a Trooper and sometimes a foote soldier
engarrisoned at Mannor Hamiltan aforesaid and was present at the fight when the said Bryan mcDonnogh was slaine. The said deponent further saith that in
December 1641 the said towne of Sligo was taken by the before mentioned Captains of the Rebells and their confederates, and quarter was therevpon given or
promissed to this deponents father William Walsh and his mother Elizabeth Walsh and to the rest of the Brittish then there remaining vnkilled being then in
number thirtie eight persons or thereabouts (vizt) William Braxton (this deponents vnckle) Thomas Steward James Scott and a man child of his of the age of
fowre or fiue yeares, Sampson Part and his wife Mary Part, and her father (whose name he cannot remember) of the age of Seaventie years or thereabouts, John
Littell, Arthure Martin, William Doolitle, his wife and three children, William Carter, John Lewis Seriant of the foote companie vnder the comand of the right
honorable the Lo: President of Connaght then engarrisoned there and Elizabeth his wife Robert Syens, Elizabeth Harla, William Blatt, and other severall Brittish
protestants whose names this Deponent cannot for the present remember, who were three weekes in the protection of Teige o Connor Sligo then reputed Generall
for the Irish in the said Countie of Sligo, who had good Store of their goods and monies But the same the Brittish were afterwards by consent of the said o
Connor Sligo put into the goale of Sligo by Charles ô Connor and by Hugh o Connor (brothers vnto the said o Connor Sligo, which And the said Brittish
Protestants were about midnight of the 13th of January 1641 most inhumanely and barbarously murthered in the said goale, by the said Charles o Connor, and
Hugh o Connor, and by one Hugh o Connor of Maghere mcGillernew in the said Countie of Sligo, Teige o Sheale, Roger McMurry, Kedagh o Hart, Edmond o
fflin, Charles Gilgin Richard Walsh, Nicholas Walsh, Thomas Walsh, and other Rebells whose names this deponent, cannot for the present remember And this
deponent knoweth, that Collonell Owen o Roirke, Bryan ballagh o Royrke his brother, Charles o Connor and Hugh o Connor brethren vnto o Connor Sligo,
Teige boy o Connor of Cloonderrereer Phelim o Connor, and divers others of the before mentioned Rebells were (some fowre or fiue houres before the said
Brittish were soe murthered) consulting in the Lady Jones late house in Sligo about the said murther, and how it should be done, This deponents cause of
knowledge is for that he was brought into the said house by owen mcRory o Connor and stood behind the dore in the next roome in the said house, and heard
their discourse of what he hath therein deposed, and afterwards was sent privately away to the said Owen o Connors lodging by his man. And this deponent
further saith that William Sheeles and his sonne, and two other Scotch men (whose names he cannot remember) were on the said 13th of January likewise
bloodily butchered, and killed in the streets of the said towne of Sligo by Hugh mcToole o Gallogher and others of the before recited Rebells, And saith that
Elizabeth Scott wife vnto James Scot (that was soe murthered in the said goale, making an escape out of the said towne the next morning) being greate with child
and neere the tyme of her deliuery, was apprehended by some of the before mencioned Rebells as shee was a going over the river of Sligo, and by some of them
then stabbed with skeanes to death., her belly being then by some of the said Rebells ript vp, and one of the hands of the child within her wombe body let out.
His this deponents cause of knowledge is both before concerning the before mentioned murther in the goale and the said murther in the said streete and River) for
that he went into the goale to see his father and mother some fowre or fiue houres before they were murthered, and was there the next morning before day after
they were murthered, and saw them and the rest Lying their murthered, and was privately carried thither by the said owen o Connor, who protected this deponent
for the loue he bore to his father and continued in the said towne part of the next day, vntill the other before related murthers were likewise comitted, and was
afterwards for his safety convaied to Mr Robert Parkes house to Newtowne, where he served as a soldier while he staied there
Dr J: Mr B Will: Welshe Jur vlt febr 1643
Hen: JonesHen: Brereton
Note: William Walsh’s deposition continues on fols 69r -69v

Deposition of Ann Bastard 3/6/1643 MS 839 106r William Steward Derry
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Death, Robbery, Stripping
Ann the Relict of William Bastard late of Londonderry Esquire sworne & examined deposeth and saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion vizt the
xxiiijth of October 1641 shee this Deponent and her said husband then alive but since dead, were deprived robbd and dispojled at Dunwest alias west in the
County of Tirone of their goodes chattells & meanes of the Consisting of Cowes horses Mares sheepe Corne hay Howsholdstuffe apparell plate Ringes ready
mony provitions proffits of lands and other other goods and chattells of the value and to their present losse of three hundred & fforty Pownds ster And that she is
like to be deprived of and loose her future proffits of her Jointure Lands worth xx li. per annum vntill a peace be established And the Rebells alsoe forceably
expelled and dryve her husband and her & their 4r children from their habitacons naked: soe as in that state predicament they Martch were inforced to fly away
& ly vpon the Rocks in frost and snowe all the night following: And afterwardes they were taken prisoners by fferdoroghe o Neile an irish Captain Rebell with
36 more protestants All Comitted to the keepeing of the twoe of his the said Neiles sonns at Mr Stephens howse in Clare: Where they stayd in great misery for a
weeke, And then by gods great providence & Mercy Sir William Stewards forces rescowed them: Howbeit by that harsh vsage her husband afterwards
languished vntill he died & soe did one of their children: And further saith That the Rebells that soe robbed and dispojled them & other the protestantes in the
Cuntry thereabouts were theis that follow vizt Turlogh ô Morris of the Parrish of Langfeild in the same Countie of Tirone gent Edward mc Gavanon of the same
parish gent Owin ô Morris this deponents late servant Brian ô Gallogher of the same gent Hugh mc Canon of the same gent Donnoghoe Mackatae of the same
gentleman & donnell, ffarrell and Hugh his sonns Phelim ô Gallagher of the same gent Turlogh ô Morris Phelim ô Morris & divers others of the sept of the
Morris: & Galloghters whose names she cannott expresse
Anne BastardeJur 3o Junij 1643
Hen: Brereton Will: Aldrich

Deposition of Henry Maxwell 7/7/1643 MS 836 118r Alester Roe Steward Rebel Antrim
Nature of Deposition: Robbery
Henry Maxwell Chancellor of Sct Saviours of Connor in the Countie of Antrim sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That since the begining of the present
Rebellion and by meanes thereof hee was and still is deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of the his the possession and proffitts of his Church Liveings
leases: & of other his goodes & chattells Consisting of bills bonds debts Cattell & other thinges of the value, and to his present losse of One thowsand eighte
hundred twentie three pownds And this deponent is like to be deprived of and loose this present yeres profitts together with the future proffitts & values of his
meanes and Church Liveinges (worth 440 li. per annum) vntill a peace be established And further saith that the parties that hee knoweth to be in rebellion against
his Maiestie are theis that follow vizt Teage Boy ô Hara Esquire Call mc Manus ô Hara gent Errell ô Hara gent Sir A lex ander James Mc Donnell Baronet
James mc Donnell Esquire James Mc Henry Esquire Turlogh ô Cane gent Donnell mc Gee gent: Hugh oge Mc Cormock gent John Stewart of Glanarne gent &
Alester Roe Steward gent all of the said County of Antrim
Henry MaxwellJur vijo July 1643
Joh Watson: Will: Aldrich

Abstract of crimes committed in Connacht undated MS 830 120r Jane steward Deponent Galway
Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Arson, Assault, Captivity, Death, Desecration, Killing, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Signs and Wonders,
Stripping, Succour, Lost by Debts
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 Clanrickard 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 Con Roorks patent pretends a pa ttent comission for his horrid murthers & burings but hanged a patent seale got at Mohil to a counterfet writing
Engl. 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
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 deponents husband left for dead escaped to the curlewes neere 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 & Teig o Connor of the Glan. Con Connor. Owen o Rork 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 French 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 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
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 murder them all there left viz 35 amongst them
William oge Buchanan & James the weauer of Killalla or Moyne & diuers others drowned 7 persons neare Killalla James French of Sligo owes 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 Creanmore 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
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 robbery 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
murder 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 Sstephen Linch prior of strade
sayes it is as lawfull to kill an Englishman as a dog or sheep murther Kedagh Ro mc James clandonel bragged he killed at? shroole cruelty to the deponents 2
children Clanrickard releeues him & many others Archbishop 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.
robbed & 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 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

Examination of Francis Taafe 23/5/1653 MS 831 135r Steward Victim Sligo
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Multiple Killing
Gallway 23th May 1653 The examinacion of Collonell ffrancis Taafe Who being duely sworne and examined saith that hee knew Charles Connor & Hugh
Connor the brothers of ô Connor Sligo: and hee heard of a horrid Murder committed in Sligo vppon one Steward William Walsh & divers others, wherin the said
Charles & Hugh wer principle actors Hee further saith that Maior generall Lucas Taafe and this examinant with 500 men did by force apprehend the said persons
for the said murder and brought them prisoners to Ballynefad in order to their triall for th at murder where they wer kept prisoners a long tyme, (but the certaine
tyme hee doth not remember) during which tyme hee beeleives the said Maior generall Taafe sent after to such as had the cheife authority in this province
desireing that the said parties might bee brought to a tryall: and at length finding it both very inconvenient to continue them any longer in that place, the said
Maior L i eutenant generall caused them to be convoyed to Castle Coot to the intent they migh t b e e there brought to Justice as hee beeleives where Leuitenant
generall Burke then was with an army who then commanded in cheife both in that army beseigeing that place & in the whole province, where the said Charles &
Hugh wer left prisoners, & wer within a week aforesaid sett at liberty, but by what meanes or whose orders hee knoweth not Hee further saith that about a
twelvemonth agoe hee saw the said Hugh ô Connor come into the Lord Clanrickards army neer Ballyshannon, & discovered him to the said Lord Clanrickard
and desired hee might bee questioned for the aforesaid murder who promised & engaged that soe soone as hee gott into Ballyshannon hee would have him
hanged; which was prevented by the sudden of approach of the English Army And the said Hugh is now in a actuall rebellion not daring to come in beecause of
that murder as hee is informed
fra Taaffe Taken before
Cha:Coote Walt: Carwardine
The examinacion of Coll. ffra: Taafe against Leiutenant generall Burke.

Deposition of John Feild 17/1/1643 MS 810 140r Robert Steward Debtor Dublin
Nature of Deposition: Loss by debt
Com Dublin Dublin John ffeild of the Citye of Dublin gentleman beinge sworne and depossed before vs saieth that vppon and about the xxvijth daye of October
in the yeere of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred fforty and one that he the saide John ffeild was duly and truely interested and there was Justly oweing
vnto him these seuerall debts and Moneys here in the seuerall comities in this his Maiesties kingdome of Ireland in these said daites named
viztli.s.d. William Sheridan of Corrone in the County of Kavane oweth mee 200
Captaine Hugh rely in the saied County 0100
Williame Grehane of the saied County 200
Terrence Brady of the saied County 100
M Ever McColl McMahon of the Conty of Monoghane oweth mee 100
William fflint Phillipboy ogoane and Donagh ogoane of the County ffermannagh 300
Archiball Jonson somtime of Dromore evae 100
Bryane O Kelly Hugh O Neill in the County of Antryme2190
Thomas Brady in the Co: of Kavane 060
Archiball Sanderson & John Madder of the County Tirrone 700
James fflemyng somtime of the Co: Monachan 100
Patrick Leahand of the Co: ffermanagh 100
Cormuck Brady of the Co: Kavane 00
Williame Moro of the saied County 200
Tirrlagh Connelly of the Co: fermanagh 200
Bryane Conelly of the saide Co: Monaghan 100
Pierce O Duffy of the said Co: 300
Richard fflemyng of the saied County 200
Bryane oge Mc Mahone of the saied County 600
James fflemyng of the saied Co: 300
Sir John Hume of the County Fermanagh 300
Lancellott Carlton of the Co: Donegall 800
George Adwick of the Co: Kavane 200
Henry Reynolds in the Co: of Kavane 0100
Sara late wiffe to Danogh McShea bun bunnagh in the Co: of Donegale 850
Patrick Conelly 200
Bryane Mc [Ma] Mahone Co: Monaghan 100
Coll McMahon of the said Co100
David McHu of the said Co: 100
Phelime McMahone of the said Co: 100
Daniell oge Marro of the Co: Antrime 1100
Williame Wale of the said County 1100
Teick O Quine of the said Co: 1100
Richard Magogan of the said Co: 100
Owin Mcagogane of the said 100
Robert Steward of the said Co: 1180
John Steward of the said Co: 1180
Gilldouff O Cane of the said Co: 1180
Turlagh O Cane of the said Co: 1180
Allexander Steward of the said Co: 1180
Georg Donbar of the Co: ffarmanagh 300
The Lady Lee the elder in the Co: of Tirrone 3 0 0
Daniell O Maghill in the Co: Tirrone 2100
Patrick Cashell of the said Co: 2100
ffrances Sreghe the said Co: Kavan 100
Edward ffarrane 200
Thomas Westfeild 200
Peter Taylore 1100
Daniell mcManos of the said Co: Mo 100
Marmaduke Liker of the Co: Downe 090
fforsaied Jordane ow mee 150
Henry Secheverell 2100
I lost a horss in the County of Dubline which were was Cost mee 350 7-0-0
I lost 2 free holes the Co: ffarm Called by the Names of Derdrauy & the other Mollinehorne, and three home steeds in Castellkoell in the
saied town being worth per annum then seven pounds vij li per annum
County of Galway
Donnogh O Dally of Laragh in the County of Galway ow 040000
John Bourke of Donsandell in the said County 040000
ffeagh mcHubbert boy of Donomane in the saied County 041000
Sir John Bourk of Tobberkeagh 050000
Thomas ffoster of Mukline 011304
Laughline O Madden of Clare in the saied C 040000
Teicke McEward of Gortnegery 21304
Nychollas Darsy for the Chappell of almurry in the saied County 30608
Dermott boy for the Richard Lenans towne 21200
Shanagan O Skegane of Kilbeg in the said Co: 10608
Sir Henry Lynch of athdona 011304
County of Mayo
Sir Tibbott Bourk of Kinturke knight 080000
My Lord of Mayo that now is 060000
Sir Christopher Dillon of Ballileaue 011304
County of Clare
Donnogh O Bren of Clansett 030608
Danyell O Bren of Balgill 030608
Sir Roger O Shagnes of Ballinecullen 011000
County Sligo
Ovine Ogary of Clownen 011304
Cormuck McDonogh of Aghame 021000
Bren O Conor of Kilmaltan 011304
Gildoff o Hartt of Cahoreagh 010608
In toto 105 li. 6 s.-4 d. presente losse
All which sumes, hee is perswaded he shalle loose for that most of the parties aforesaid are irish men, & in Rebellion as he thincketh & is generally reported
and the rest are either robbd kild or soe disabled by the Rebellion that they are not able to make satisfaccion 64 li. 14 s. 4 d.
In toto 6 4 li. 14 s. & vij li. presente losse & 7 li. per annum future Losse
John ffeild Jur 17o Januar 1642
Joh Watson Will: Aldrich Hen: Brereton