Deposition of Robert Bigland

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Robert Bigland of knockinamase in the Kinges County yeoman sworne and examined deposeth and saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion That is to say on or about the third and fowrth daies of december 1641 hee this deponent at knockinamase aforesaid was forceibly robbed, deprived & dispoyled of his beasts cattle horses sheepe Corne hay howshold stuffe & other his goodes and Chattles worth ffive hundred and three score Powndes By Captain Daniell Carroll of Coolenowin in the kings countie and his <A> wicked Company of irish souldjers whose names this deponent cannott expresse Howbeit those wicked rebells murthered most barbarously this deponents sonn Henry Bigland William Thomason and a woman all 3 protestants & they alsoe hanged to death John Burrowes Thomas Chisley and a yong child about 8 yeres old of Christopher Guns and an other boy called John: but his surname hee [ ] knoweth not, who e was about 14 yere ould They alsoe murthered and killed one William Price and the wiffe of the said John Burrowes and one Jackson whoe had a wiffe & 5 Children all starved to death but one little boy: & the said Rebells alsoe most barbarously killd another child about 7 or 8 yere old as he went to fetch water & left him dead in the long grass where he lay for a weekes space before his parents fownd him: And they alsoe murthered divers other protestants in the Cuntrie thereabouts & robbed & dispojled all the protestants in the Cuntry farr and nere of all their goodes And And
<And further saith That one William a Tree (after taken by the English and hanged) confessed at his death That the Rebells had sowen this deponents garden twice over but nothing would come vpp: But that they lost both seed and Labour it being formerly fruitfull and made the same report of the falleing barren of their owne gardens since they fell into Rebellion>
Robart Bigland
Jur [ ] 20o Maij 1643
Joh Watson
John Sterne

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Kings County
Robert Bigland Jur 20o Maij 1643
Cert fact
Intw hand
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