Deposition of Hannagh Farrell

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And Hannagh ffarrell Maydeservant to the said Samuell beeing sworne and examyned deposeth That Garrot Talbott sonne <A> to the La: Talbott of Care towne vppon St Stevens day Last beeing the 26th of January Decemb er betweene 8 & 9 of the clock in the night came with a great number of Rebells to the Castle of Mynouth, and did violently tak away from thence 4 Musketts 2 Pikes 2 baggs of powder and a firkin of Bulletts threatning to burne vpp the gates if they would not open it then
And that on or about the xiijth day of January last in the daie tyme three of Mr Welch his sonnes of Mooretowne (one of them a preist, the & an other a ffryer) came to the gate of Mynouth and broke it open with a Smythes sledg, and ransackt the howse breaking vpp all the truncks Chests Locks and bolts whatsoever affirming that they came for Armes to fight with Sir Charles Coote who (as they said) was in battle with them of their religion, And the said Welsh his sonnes did animate and stirr vpp the people of Mynouth to take armes and fight for their religion, calling the English doggs and Trayters and that Sir Chareles Coote was a Diuell, or the sonne of a Diuill, and that they would haue his head
<B> And shee further deposeth, that the day following beeing the 14th day of January last one Edward mcThomas ffitzgerald of Mellohan who pretended himselfe to bee the new Erle of Kildare came to Mynouth with a great number of Rebells and tooke possession of the Castle and all the Goods and Cattle about the towne, amoungst which her Masters Goods & cattle were noted by his owne hand And the said pretended Erle called himselfe by the name of Seriant Maior and the names of the rest of the Rebells shee knoweth not
Signum
Hanne [mark] ffarrell
Jur: 29. Jan. 1641.
Cor
John Sterne
Will: Hitchcock
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