Deposition of William Baily

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<101> William Baily of Balljboggan nere ffinglassbridg in the County of Dublin miller sworne & examined deposeth and sayth That after the begining of the present Rebellion That is to say about the xjth day of December 1641 hee this Deponent being about grinding of Corne in the mille at Ballyboggan aforesaid then and thither there came vnto him Nicholas ffreind and Richard ffreind 2 of the sonns of Henry ffreind of Dunsinck farmer (then alive but lately deceased, together with one Patrick Cadell of the Big{g} Cabrough nere Dublin tennant to Mr Alderman Arthur; which said Nicholas ffreind Richard ffreind and Patrick Cadell then & there told and advised this deponent to bee of their Religion, and to partake & goe along with them against the English protestants, And then they would provide him a Mill and his goodes should bee saffe, wherevn{to} hee answered that before he would turne his Religion or goe to Mass{e} hee would be cutt as smalle as flesh to the pott, neither would he Join{e} nor goe along with them against the protestants, but would goe to Dublin Wherevpon they in a scornfull manner bade him begone from his mill & trust in his god. For this night said they, Tredarth wilbe taken & before tomorrow at night we will make Dublin as plaine as a feild if they stand out with us, The Deponent asking them how many they were that could doe such Acts, They answered they were all the kingdome, And that all the English were to be banished the kingdo{me} or words to that effect: Wherevpon the same night next following, th{e} Deponent hearing the Irish piper (that was comen with their Rebellious forces to ffinglasse) play there, which was very nere him: hee this deponent (to shun the danger which hee feared fled away to Dublin, & was forced to leave his howse, mill, some howsholdgoods & other things But did drive his Cowes and other cattle away to a place very nere Dublin: from whence the very night following they were stollen and taken away by the said Nicholas and Richard ffrend & by James Long of Abbotstowne, and by John Andrew, the sonne of Nicholas Andrewe of Castleknock (as this deponent was by his servants credibly
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Informed) which said John Andrew alsoe stole and tooke away a mare of this deponents and cruelly struck the deponents servant Walter Myles for asking why hee tooke the said Mare: And further sayth that the whole losse which this deponent susteined by looseing and being deprived of the possession Rents and proffitts of his said howse farme and mille & of his said Cattell Mare a horse howsholdgoods and other thinges by meanes of the Rebelljon, Amount vnto the sum of one hundred Powndes sterling And further sayth That about January 1642 this deponent was (amongst Mr Richard Swinfen and others at Meaxtowne in the County of Dublin robbed of ffive Cowes and twoe horses by the Rebells aforenamed, and by Thomas ffloodie of Aboststowne, Richard Strong now of Glasseneven in the County of Dublin gentleman, and by a great number of Rebells, being all, as he is verely perswaded, their neighbours & Inhabitants thereabouts
And this deponent farther saith That about Candlemas 1641 hee this Deponent was present by, at a howse in Saint Thomastreete Dublin called the Swann when twoe persons vizt a man and a woman that were thither brought by Richard Mason nowe of Dublin yeoman before Mr Justice Rolls to be examined, which said man and woman being then sworne and examined before the said Justice did in this deponents hearing then and there depose that the said Richard Mason being about Christmas next before robbed of some Cowes, that they quickly after pursued & followed those Cowes by the track & other wise to the howse of Mr Henry Seagrave called the Cabrough nere Dublin: And there demanded those Cowes of the said Mr Seagrave and his servants, whoe denyed the haveing of them Howbeit that man and woman as they went away sawe those very Cowes in the bawne or fold of him the said Mr Seagrave at Cabrough aforesaid And that the said Mr Seagrave still kept them from the said Richard Mason
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