Deposition of Henrie Aylyffe
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Henrie Aylyffe of Bennetarran in the parrish of Lynally in the territory of ffercall in the Kings County gent an english Protestant sworne and examined sajth: That about the Last of November 1641 He this deponent was robbed and dispoiled by the rebells vndernamed of Cowes and young cattle worth xl li. or thereabouts horses xiiij li. Corne howsholdstuff hay proffitts of garden & apparrell & three gould ringes bookes and druggs for Phissick In all amounting to one hundreth and fifteene powndes ster <A> By Hugh Art Moloy of the Pallas gent Joane Coffy of the same Rory Callaghan, Donnell Dun of Gartin in the Queens Countie and sundry other vnknowne persons to him in a great number men women & children the said women and children all of them as busie handed and forward actors as the men in the said robbery & rebellion And saith that Cosny Moloy of Culley gentleman & his sonn; Art Moloy sonn to Charles Moloy of Rathlene Esquire and the said Charles Moloy Dermot Dowgan of Rathrobin gent & Eneas dowgan of Corr: Bryan Mcowgan Ed mon d O Moloy of Anislean Peter Moloy a fryer Arthur Dowgan of the Rath Cadagh Demsie of Ballinecantagh Captain Tirrill and his twoe sonns Tho: and John are all of them in rebelljon And that Sir George Harbert and <B> Sir Jasper Harbert gave vp their arms and munition to the rebells and thear sonns are in action with the rebells And sajth to that to this deponents especiall knowledg that the children of small yeres of the irish and theire women were and are as feirse eigar cruell and bloudy in pursueing robbing striping spojlinge and attempting all vyllanyes robberis and cruelties they co u ld against the English as the men, and rather farr exceeding them to their power And that the twoe daughters of Rory Colloghan of the great wood in ffercall did robb and strip an English women of the age of ffowrescore yeres in the depth of winter, snow and frost Whoe dyed before their dores & lay there vnburied the few English then remaineing in those partes not dareing to take away that her corps
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Corps for feare of their owne Lives And further saith that after the robbery aforesaid the deponent, (deprived of all subsistence) intended to escape with his wife to Sir ffrancis Hamiltons in the County of Cavan and tooke his course to Mullingarr, where they were [ ] seised on and vppon stripped by the rebells and by them committed and first Locked vp naked in the sessions howse attending the cutting of of his head, which as they threatened soe he is perswaded had beene done, had not in the meane time a hott contestacion and tumultuous mutinytie mutinie happened betweene <C> Andrew Boy Tuite and the Company of Robert Newgent sonn to James Newgent of Drumcree in the County of Westmeath about a sword. By which meanes this deponent espying an opportunity forced back the lock of the doore and escaped to the Portriffe by his the said Portriffes assistance, And sayth that from Christmas Last till the comeing of his Maiesties army to Mullengarr, he was there constrayned to abide & durst not adventure to stirr thence, Albeit the miseryes they endured by cold hunger besides sicknes, are beyond expression escapeing most remarkable difficulties by a more remarkable divine providence, being day and night tumultuously assaulted and terrified with the skeanes and swordes of the bloody Rebells inforceing their entrance vpon their howse and chambers divers tymes where the deponent was lodged, Wee And saith that Once a Jury of women were impannelled and retorned against this deponent for triall <D> of his Lyfe amongst which one Katherin ffurie was the forewoman and would be satisified with noe Lesse then this deponents head becawse (as she said) he had retained to Sir Charles Coote: Another tyme A Jury of men at the Castle of Mullengarr passed vpon all the english there being about some eng thirty persons Soe that this deponent did vehemently suspect the distruccion of himself and all the english there: Haveing seene before his eyes some evident spectacles of their cur Cruelties vpon Sir John Giffords foote man Whom they haveing halfe hanged they tooke downe and recouered for twoe or 3 dayes, to extort confessions2 1085
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but afterwards hanged him outright His feare increasing not a little when he considred their hard vsage towardes the portriff of Mullengarr, whoe hardly escaped hanging for reading the kings proclamacion & Carrying the kinges staff in his hands And moreover saith that during the time of his constrained aboad there, he hath observed <hand> theis pasages: ffirst that the irish generally doe repent that they tooke not the english lives before when they tooke their <E> goodes, And he heard one Hussey a man of note in Estmeath, (whoe was fled thither) say: That had the English in their goeing vp to dublin beene cutt of, then the irish had beene saffe and quiett: He observed alsoe that before the kings army came to Mullengarr there came certeine messages & intelligence by letters and advertisements both of the number of the army horse and foote, and which way they were to martch Howe long to stay and whither to goe: And that beggars in patched cotes, for the most past, brought those newes And saith that a little before the comeing of the said Army the men of Longford made a proposicion for the ioyneing of their forces which the ô Relys & the Westmidians to make a bodie to meete the same army but disagreeing touchinge a Cheeftaine they resolved to manteine their owne country apart, which was the course they followed: And sayth that xiiij s. was charged and putt vpon every plow Land in Westmeath <f> and collected by Robert Newgent the Rebells gouernour of the countie for mainte in ing the rebells army <B> And this deponent further saith that he heard it avouched and spoken by men <hand> not of the meanest qualitie in these parts of the irish That at midsommer was twelvemonth about one thowsand of the best qualified of their preists and fryers assembled at Multifurnam: and there did frame a letter as out of England importing that vnles the Irish would goe to the protestant Church they shold first loose their goods for the first default next their Lands & Last their Lyues And that att the same tyme they contrived & showed a broad seale pretending it to be the kings broad seale to wish them to rise to defend their religion th at purpose But after this deponent heard many gentlemen of great meanes of
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the irish papists say it was counterfeited & curssed the fryers to their facs for it saying if it were not for their habitt, they would run them thoroughe with <G> their skeanes, And at one tyme after at the howse of John Grymes at Mullengarr aforesaid one Edward Dun of Castlebrack in the kinges County Captain of some rebells reproved some of [ ] the preists and fryers for soe deludeing them & bringing them into a dangerous busines which they cold not gett of out of And that some one of them fryers (whoe he vnderstood was prior of Trim) then answered, we have kindled the wisp quench it you as you can. Where at the said dun drew his sword and swore if it were not for his coate he wold run him through presently: And further saith that a letter alsoe was produced by the gentlemen of those parts and publiquely divulged. The contents for soe much as he heard was to this effect and in their words vizt Beleeve not flying reports Hoc certium est Sir Charles Coote is gone out of the world to the other world, And although the English had the day (meaneing at the battle nere Athy) yet we lost but one hundred, but the English five hundreth men & the English martching that night to the Naas, and being overjoied at their victory, wearied with their travell and overcomen with sleepe, were all overthrowen by Colonell Birne except El the Erle of Ormond & Eleven hundreth which escaped with him by a strategem (as the Erle (say they) confessed at Dublin. The Cathaliques in Dublin are very Joyfull, & the puritants are mourning & we hope to see a better day shortly: and <hand> to drinck a health to the confusion of or to that the Kinge: And this deponent further sayth that he hath often heard the Irish of good accompt protest and say Thay they would have a <H> king of their owne, and that Sir Phelim ô Neale was borne with the picture of a crowne on his side, as a signe that he ought
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he ought to be their king, and whoe is by the rebells called that Little Light that should arrise in [ ] Lidia prophesyed of by Saint Patrick which shold drive away all the mists and darknes out ofin the kingdome And this deponent hath heard some of them sweare alsoe they they would have a king of their owne, And once this deponent conversing with a rebell whoe as hee vnderstood was of the County of Longford (somtymes 1300 of rebells comeing from thence to that place) this deponent s gathered out of his report that the Irish fought for the kinge & This deponent therevpon asked him what was the reason that seeing that both the irish as they pretended and English both fought for the king why that they did not all lay downe armes and agree that poore men might take course to live: To which the same Rebell replying said we declare that wee fight for the king: but for what king thinck you doe wee meane, thinck you <hand> The king that wee meane is one of our Owne And this deponent during the time of his restrainte with the rebells observed that those the of the english and Scotch that djed (though reconsyled to the Church of Roome) were burjed on the north side of the Church with their faces downwards presageing thereby (as they said) that the English shold be overthrowne And further saith that the vndernamed <I> persons are notoriously knowne to be in rebellion vizt Andrew Boy Tuite Esquire, One Tuite late sher Sherriff of the County of Westmeath whose Christen name he knows not Edward Tuite of Ballybrien gent Andrew Newgent of Disart Esquire Garrott Dalton of Dundonnell Esquire Oliver Dalton of Newtowne
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John Hopp of nere Mullengarr gentleman Sir James Dillon <k> ofin the County of Westmeath knighte Thomas Tirrell gentleman Thomas Petite of Irishtowne Esquire Mawrice Tirrell Late subsheriff of the kings Countie and his sonns: Edward Dun of Castlebrack & Cahir ô Dun (a late Carlile souldier, & a s a Lieutenant vnder the said Edward Dun, Tho: Petite William Petite ofand one Tho: Tirrell nere Mullengar, which said Tho: Tirrell sayd that i f they would sweepe all the english out of Ireland as cleene as Saint Patrick ever swept the venemous wormes out of Ireland: And alsoe one ffawghney mcGenmor <hand d> Ensigne to John Hopp (whoe most cruelly murthered <L> masecred & chopt in peecs one John Lorcan an honest english man and servant to Sir John Veale knight (whoe was protected by Andrew Tuite Boy Tuite) & The Butler of which Andrew Boy Tuite sayd vpon hearing thereof cursed the partie that had done it for that he had prevented him for doeing thereof himselfe And saith further that John Robinson his nere neighbour was by the rebells alsoe robbed & dispoyled of goodes worth C li. at least
Henry Aeyloffe
Jur 27o Junij 1642
John Sterne
John Watson1039 1089
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Kinges County
Henry Ayloff
Jur 27o Junij 1642
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