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Hughe Roberts viccar of kilconferth in the kinges County Clerke sworne and examined sajth That since the begining of the present Rebellion vizt about the 14th of November 1641 hee this deponent was deprived robbed or otherwise dispoiled of his goodes & chattells Consisting of Howsholdstuff & provition Cattle horses Corne hay bookes & other thinges worth att the least threescore and tenn pownds and alsoe sithens in spirituall means the some of fouresore and 4 li. pounds ster: for 2 yeres proffitt By & by the meanes of theis Rebells following vizt Edward McLishagh Connor [ ] late of Clonnerrill now prisoner in Dublin: Captain of Rebells, Garrett Connor of Ballilenon gent & Morrogh McConnor of the same his brother and divers others the souldjers of the said Edward mcLishagh Connor <A> whose names he cannott now expresse And further saith that the said Edward McLishagh Conner about May 1642 cawsed to bee erected a gallowes at the greene of Phillipstowne in the kings County aforesaid for the hanging vp of Englishmen & cawsed one Thomas Horan an honest English man [protestant] <A> to bee hanged thereon: And hee the said Edward McLishagh Connor martched with his rebellious souldjers and Colours displayed oftentymes to the hill of Croghan in the said County somtymes 140 or thereabouts & att other tymes three or fowre hundreth in Company Against the kings Maiesty & his lojall protestant subjects. And he & his Rebellious Company forceibly broke & entered into the kings ffort att Phillipstowne aforesaid & kept the same against his Maiesty vntill such tyme as Sir Charles Coote knight decesed tooke the said ffort from his men and killed hanged some of them And the said Edward McLishagh Connor & his Rebellious Crew about Christmas 1641 martched to kilbeggan: & from thence forceibly tooke carried away divers of the Cattle & sheepe of the said right honourable the Lord Lambert, and Lodged in pilladged the towne of kilbeggan all night And hee and his Rebellious Crewe alsoe
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