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Rice Jones Late of the towne & Corporation & County of Sligoe gent sworne and examined saith That in the begining of the present Rebellion vizt on or about the tenth day of December 1641 Hee this deponent at Sligoe aforesaid was forceibly deprived robbed or otherwise dispojled of his goodes chattells & estate Consisting of Cattle horses Mares Colts howshold stuffe Plate provision Corne hay Apparell ready monyes & other thinges of the value, & to his present Losse of One thousand poundes sterling at the Least: By, and by the meanes of Owin ô Rourk <A> of Drummaherre in the County of Lejtrim a Colonell & cheefe Ringleader of Rebells there Teige ô Conner of Sligoe another of their Colonells and a grand Rebell Murtogh McDonnoghe one of the cheefe of that name & divers others the septs or names of the McDonnoghes ô Connors and the Creanes and their Complicees partakers & souldjers whose names he cannot expresse for that this deponent for safftie of his Liffe fled erely away to the guarrison at Mannorhamilton in the County of Leitrim: Where he contynued vntill the Late Cessation of armes proclaimed. But for murthers & Cruelties can say nothing of his owne knowledge But hath credibly heard & as verely beleeveth there were murthered & massacred in the gaole of Sligoe by the Rebells in one nyght about 36 or 37 protestants after they were perswaded to goe in thither to save their Lives from forreine Rebells But yet they were soe murthered by the Rebells of that towne or of the places nere thereabouts
Rice: Jones:
Jur ixo die Decembris 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton
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Com of Sligoe
Rice Jones Jur
decemb: ixo 1643
Intw
Cert: fact
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