Deposition of William Robinson

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William Robinson late of Ballineskey in the County of Wickloe Inholder sworne sayth
That about viijt or 9 weekes since at Ballineskey aforesaid he was robbd and dispoyled of his goodes & chattles of the values following vizt of beastes & cattle worth 90 li. of howsehold goodes worth 110 li., apparell worth xx li. hay worth 10 li. ready mony xvij li. garden stuff worth 10 li., and is deprived of his howse which he imployed for an Inn and his farme which with his stock of goodes was worth 60 li. per annum vnto him his terme in his lease thereof which he had from one Mr William Turner haveing contyuance & being for 26 yeres yet to come And that the parties Rebells that soe robbed and spoiled him <A> were theis vizt Cullock Birne sonn of Teige oge Birne & another sonn of his of or n ere Ballinvally in the same County gentleman: whoe were styled or named 2 Captaines Stephen Esmond of Ballenisky duff in the same County gentleman Kinsman to the Lord Esmond and by his men, Edmond duff Birne of Ballymony gentleman, Donnogh oge of Ballirichard gentleman Edmund Mc Cahir Birne of Culmore gent styled Captaine, Patrick his sonn and another sonn and some daughters of his whose names this deponent knowes not William Murrey Birne of Culmore Patrick his sonn & <B> Ballinegullock gentleman and Edmond oge of the same his father gentleman Hughe Moyle of Ballymoile gent and Garrett his sonn gentleman Edmond duff Moyle of the same gentleman and his sonnes & daughters whose names he knoweth not John mc Cahir Birne of the Scatterins gent Garrett Birne of alias Ballaghe of Croinkipp gentleman all of the same County of Wicklow and many others of the servantes complicees & vnder the command of the before named Rebells

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or of some of them: And further saith that the Rebells aforesaid did in this deponentes said howse dangerously stubb and wound this deponent in xj placs of his body vizt in his throate shoulders back & thighes: & afterwardes they inforced the deponent (thoughe very weake and faint with bleeding) to draw out & bring them his beare soe as haveing a little opportunity he escaped from them & fled into a River where he lay from nyne of the clock in the night vntill six in the morning And in the morning the Rebells being gone he fownd his wife & 6 children all stript of their clothes: & 2 other of his other children fled or carried away by the Rebells soe as he knows not where or how they are nor whether they be alyve or dead: And the day following this deponent and his wife 6 children and family fled into the Church & made fast the dores But the Rebells the next day cutt the dore of the Church in peeces & expelled them thence & the rebells tooke away with them some goodes which they there fownd And saith that his whole losse and damage by the Rebells aforesaid amounteth <{5}00 li.> to 500 li. at least as he is verely perswaded And that he his wife & children are now very poore exposed to cold and want and that he for his owne part though aged and weake by his woundes hath taken vp armes & is now a souldier for his Maiesty vnder the Command of Sir Tho: Newcomen knighte his Captaine against the present rebells
The marke of [mark] William Robinson
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