Examination of Martha Piggott

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The examinaction of Mrs Martha Pigott of the Disard in the Queenes Countie being duly sworne and examined before mee this 26th of Jan: 1652
Saith that her husband Major John Pigott and shee liued at the aforesaid Disard and that aboute Michaellmas last <A> was six yeares since, being in the yeare 1646 in the time of the Assessation Owen Roe haveing drawne downe his Army in the Queenes Countie encamped aboute Maryborough haveing then taken the same & and vpon the sonday after Michellmas Day: the said Owen Roe sent Sir Daniell or Sir Phelim O Neile from thence to summons the said Disard howse the same being held and kept for the English by the said Major Pigott, whoe replied in answer to theire said Summons that he would nott deliver vp or surrender the said howse vnto them; and that he had rather dye an honourable death then liue a slaveish Life; wherevpon the said Sir Daniell or Sir Phelim Oneile was sattisfyed and went his way; and retorned the said answer to the said Owen Roe And that soone after vpon the verry tewsday following Collonell ffarrell marched with a party of men from the said Campe and came before the said Disard howse to storme the same, which they accordingly did very eagerly attempt, and after some three howres dispute the grate of the said howse was by some accident opened vpon which the rebells rusht in whoe as they were scuttling and lumbering vpp the staires was heard by the said Major Pigott, who imediatly heareing them bid his men stand to theire Armes, whoe did soe accordingly and likewise threw downe a pare of virginalls tables, stooles, Chaires and many other Lumbering things to Barrokade vp the said staires to keepe them downe And further saith that all this while they were the said Rebbells offered and promised & swore all that was within the howse should haue good quarter & used many Arguments to perswade them [ ] therevnto butt they would not accept

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thereof; till att Length the said Rebbells fired the howse over theire eares that they weare all almost Choaked vp with smoke; when this said examinant <B> went vpon her knees to the said Major her husband and begged of him that he would accept of quarter which he then did thervnto Condecend and therevpon caled out vpon the said staires and desired to know who would make good theire quarter vnto them, whoe was answered by the said Rebbells, that would one ffarroll Dardis and Kiggan (butt whether they caled him Collonell or as before is mencioned shee doth nott well remember which, butt is shure of twas one of them) And further saith that after the within mencioned Lumbering things were taken away and the said Rebbells permitted vpp staires, as soone as theire feete was within the roome where they were, the said Rebbels fell to worke a stripping the weomen and Children and killing the said Major and his men Likewise some of the weomen and Children ofte, notwithstanding theire said quarter and that they misvsed and draggd this said Examinant through the fire and the quick sett hedges naked; and further this said Examinant saith that shee heard that the said Rebbells kept her said husband and his minister after they had killed the m from the said tewsday till the fryday following and sett them in Chaires one against another face to face and brought the Ministers bookes and toare them & litt cast them downe before him alikewise putt a potatoe in his mouth & bid him preach to his patron; and on the said fryday they putt ropes aboute theire Necks & dragged them out into a ditch, where they left them. And further saith not./
Martha Pigott
Deposed before me the day & yeare within written
Hen: Prittie