Deposition of Morgan Phillips

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Morgan Phillips late of Mounstereven in the Countie of Kildare Tanner sworne & examined deposeth and saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof vizt on or about the last of November 1641 He this deponent at Mounstereven aforesaid had by the Rebellion three howses burned & demolished & his tanyard tan pitts & their appurtenances spojled & was then and there alsoe robbed <A> & dispoyled of lether Cowes horses Corne hay howsholdgoods & other goodes of the value and to his losse of twoe hundreth powndes besides the losse of his trading which was yerely worth vnto him 60 li. per annum at least By the Rebells following vizt the lord Dempsie of Clanmelero Henry dempsie Esquire his brother Micheall Jones sonne in law to the said lord Dempsy. Thomas ffitzgarrett of Clanbolgue in the said County of Kildare Captaine Alexander Connor ofnere Kildare gent Charles Connor his brother Captain ffitzgarrett ofvpon the Currough of Kildare and divers others of the septs & names of the Dempsyes and Connors whose Chrissen names he cannot expresse other then John and Patrick Connor And saith that the said lord Dempsy & his brother Capt Henry Dempsy, Captain Sanky Captain ffergus Mcdonell Peter Sarsfeild of Tulley Esquire and their souldjers seuerall tymes attempted the takeing and surpriseing of the howse of Mounstereven but were from tyme to tyme repulsed by him this deponent and other souldjers that defended the same, and one tyme they brought up or sent to the gates of the howse an three engins called a Sawes stuft with wolle and furnished with some men: All which men the defendants bett away & made them forsake their sawes wherein was fownd 14 stone waight or thereabouts of good wolle & raw cow hydes or ox hyds And although it was they were double plancked yet
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yet some of the defenders of the Castle shott some of the Rebells therein with their musketts or a brass sling peece which they had and which they seuerall tymes charged and discharged with powder and long sluggs: with some of which a fryer that was an assailant) was shott in the knee & lamed and after pursued to a howse where the defenders of the Castle burnd him and the howse together after they had routed the rest of the assailants Assayleants: And there was alsoe slaine from the said howse of Mounstreven one of the cheefe of the dempsyes: whoe often <B> by name Tho Mc Richard Dempsy: whoe had seuerall tymes formerly in this deponents hearing threatened to burne the said howse and towne of Mountstereven and not to suffer to live either man woman or child that held or kept the same from him
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Morgan Phillips
Jur xijo Jan: 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton

Kildare
Morgan Phillips Jur
12o Jan: 1643
Intw C.f. no sol.
Hand w
vlt nov
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