Examination of Arthur Wollgarr

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Arthur Wollgarr of Dowth in the

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the County of Meath Barber adged 22 yeares or therabouts beeing duly sworne & <r> examjned saith that the Rebells beeingaith about five or six thowsand men settled about the seege of Drogheda about a fortenight or ther abouts after Allhallontide Last was twelvemonth and that they settled first at as hee heard some of them drew first to Tulloghesker about 4 miles from Dowth to the number of five or six thousand men, & afterwards approached neerer to Drogheda on both sides the water Hee saith hee knoweth not whether or noe Sir John Netervil went to Drogheda after the coming of the Rebells at to Tulloghesker <s> as aforesaid, Hee further saith that about Christmas next after the said Allhallantide there came to Dowth some of the said Rebells some of the chief of them beeing of the ô Neiles and about 40 or 50 of the [ ] the said Rebells by the negligence of the porter entred into the howse of Sir John Netervill at Dowth the said Sir John beeing <t> then in the said house, and saith that they entred without any resistance made against them

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them, and that the said Sir John was angry and reproved the porter for that they were permitted to enter the said howse, & <v> the examinant saith that hee sawe one of the Rebells in the hall with his sword drawen in his hand of the and hee sawe an other of the Rebells swords lye drawen in the hall, and that the said Rebells suppt there that night some in the hall & some in the larder or stable & some in the towne and that or the examinant heard there were many more in the towne then came to the house and that 2 or 3of them lodged chief of them lodg lodged in the said Sir Johns howse there that night & that Sir John Netervill and his lady <w> sate with them at supper, and that the next morning they departed, and he saith hee knoweth of noe assault made by any of them on the said Sir Johns house
<x> Hee likewise saith that an other time not long before or after that time, and as the examinant takes it it w it was after that time some sixteene of the said Rebells owne went in to the said Sir went in to the said Sir John

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John Netervills said house, the said Sir John beeing then in the said howse, and dyned in the said howse, but the said Sir John then dyned not with them, and after they had staid there some fewe two houres they departed,
<y> Hee saith also that at an other time Ignatius Plunket a Lievtenant Collonell (as the examinant heard) amongst the Rebells did in the time of the seege of Drogheda come at two severall times to the said Sir John Netervills said howse, the said Sir John Netervill beeing then there and at both times the said Plunket was accompanied but saith that with and the first time one man, and at one of those times hee the said Plunket did dine there, but whether Sir John Netervil then spoak with him or dyned with him, the examinant knoweth <z> not, but saith that at the other t he second time, the said Sir John did speak with the said Plunket & the said Sir John & the said Pluncket did then collate sit t together there, at the fires side, and they had bread & drink brought to them did eat & drinck toget h er, although but the

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the said Sir John had collated before the said Plunket came thither, Hee <a> likewise saith that during the time of the seege of Drogheda the said Sir John Nettervill went severall times from his own howse to Balligart to his father the Lo: Netervil his by beeing then in Rebellion , and that in his returne at th o se times from his fathers <b> hee lodged once or twice at Athcarne at the house of James Baath of Athcarne the said James Baath beeing then at both those times in his said howse and in rebellion <c> and the examinant at those times attended the said Sir John at Balligart & Athcarne & sawe the said Sir John at Balligart with the Lo: Netervil, and at Athcarne with James Baath, Hee further saith <d> that during the time of the seege of Drogheda the said Sir John Netervil did repaire

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repaire twice from his own house at Dowth to Slaine the Lo: of Slane at the Slane the said Lo: of Slane beeing then in <e> in Rebellion, and the examinant at both times attended the said Sir John to Slane aforesaid and there sawe the said Lo: of Slane & Sir John together, at both times, and saith that the said Sir John stayd not there all night but returned home to his own house.
<f> Hee further saith that when about a weeke after the Rebells came to Tulloghesker as aforesaid some of them came on this side the river, and the said Sir John Netervil then sent his servant Christopher Dungan to trye if the way were cleere on this side the river that soe he might gett to Drogheda and the <g> said Dungan returned back that night and it seemes hee heard the said Dungan said that the Rebells had mett with him & tooke having taken his band from him and lett him goe, but hee found an

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an opportunitie to make an escape from them, as the examinant heard And hee saith that the <h> next day the said Sir John with Patrick Clinton Henry Smith and the examinant went towards the land of Proudfortstowne to trye if he could gett to Drogheda and sent a man over the river to see if the wayes were cleere, & the man <i> brought him word back that hee could not goe without danger of his life, whervppon the said Sir John & the rest returned back to Dowth, Hee <k> saith further that after the so raising of the seege of Drogheda the said Sir John Nettervil with his servant Cornelius Moran hearing that the Earle of Ormond was at Garristowne, the said Sir John Nettervil with his servant Cornelius

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<L> Cornelius Moran swome over their horses over the river, & went themselves in a Currogh over the River, and soe then as the examinant heard they went to Garristowne to the said Earle of Ormond, Hee <m> saith likewise that the said Cornelius Moran tould he examinant that hee the said Cornelius was examined before Sir Robert Meredith concerning Sir John Netervill and the said Cornelius then also tould the examinant that the said Sir Robert Meredith then at his examinacion threatened to rack the said Cornelius, & said that allthough the said Cornelius was tall yet hee would make him a handfull longer, for not telling more when hee had confessed all hee knewe,
<n> Hee further saith that hee this examinant was examined before the said Sir Robert Meredith concerning the said Sir John Netervill, and that the said Sir

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<o> Sir Robert Meredith did not threaten the said this examinant with the rack or otherwise
Arthur Wollgar
Jo: Borlase
Hen: Tichborne
Ad: Loftus
Wm: Parsons
J: Temple