Examination of Patricke Wicken re George Cheeuers

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The examinacion of Patricke wicken of the great Island aged about forty foure yeares taken vpon oath Concerning the said George Cheeuers of Killyane esquire deceased
who being duely sworne & examined saith that he knew the said George & that the said George Liued partely at Balleneclash, & partely at Killiane the first yeare & the whole time of the rebellyon, neere to which Balleneclash the deponent dwelte: And saith that about the begining of December after the rebellyon brake forth in the yeare 1641 one Gerrald mc Donell a plundering Captaine with twelue men in his Company in Armes, of which men Hugh mc <u> Murtagh, Richard mc Cody & others whose Names the deponent doth not remember of the houshould seruants of the said George were parte, who came with Armes to Corroghtloe the howse of Adam waller a protestant Minister then fled for wales or england, which howse they entered, (the same being then Inhabited by this deponent & his father) & from thence tooke and carryed away about twenty Cowes of the goods of the said Adams & the examinants father, togeather with one feather bed & other goods of the said Adam wallers, & Likewise twenty foure garrans, & tre twenty nyne hoggs great & small, And further saith that this examinant did afterwardes for seauerall yeares see the said Richard mc Cody & Hugh mc Murtagh [ ] & the other seruants of the said Cheeuers (then at the plundering aforesaid) in the said George his seruice as his seruants aforesaid: The cause of this deponents knowledge is for that the deponent dwelte with his father at Corroghtloe & was present, & did see the said mischeife & plunder Comitted, by the persons, & in the manner aforesaid At which time the deponent heard his father to vtter theese wordes to the said George his seruants, (the said George being then High sherriffe of the County of wexford) saying hath the sherriffe nothing to doe but to send his seruants to robb mee & mr waller & further saith not &c
Patricke wicken
his [mark] marke
Sworne before vs the
20th of January 1653
Tho: Hart
John walker
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