Deposition of James Colville
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James Coll Colville of Rathmoile parcell of the Abbey of Leix in the queens County gent sworne & examined sayth That since the beginig of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof hee hath beene and expelled from deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of his goods & chattells of the values hereafter mencioned vizt, Corne worth CC li. Beasts Cattle & horses worth CCC li., And this deponent att the begining of the Rebellion hadd & held by leas for 55 35 yeres or thereabouts yet in being a farme called Rathmojle aforesaid which by fynes buildings & his great improvement hath cost him at least 1300 li. And this deponent by his Corne in the ground sowne, which he is confident he shall never reape: & for want of the proffitts of the said Lands which he received, not, but l o st the Last yere: hath Lost Clx li. In all amounting to the sume of one thowsand nyne hundreth & sixtie pownds And that the parties that soe expelled robbed & dispoyled him or and that are otherwise in Rebellion are theis that ffollowe vizt Barnaby Demsy <A> of Knockard [degurre] ô Corroghe Esquire Charles Dempsie his eldest sonne, both of the queens county Pierce ffitzgerald gentleman of one of the Attorneys in the Kinges bench William Hetherington of Ballyeagle Esquire Nicholas Jacob of Ballirowen gentleman & a brother or twoe of his whose Christen names he knows not, Robert Bard sonn to Thomas Bard of Colt gentleman which said Robert hath alsoe since the begining of the Rebellion robbed divers others & carrjed away the goodes to his said fathers howse fflorence fitzPatrick of Castletowne Esquire all of Andreas fitzpatrick of Castlefleeming Esquire <B> Lady Dowager of Vpper Ossery whoe sent out all her tennants of Water Castle and kilbally tallow vnder the Command of William Skeady her Bailiff: & some of her yonger Children whoe all were in Rebellion and brought the stollen goods vnto her howse and Park & tooke them to her house and Parke owne
<[symbol] of terenc Doyne the Clerk>
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The Lord Baron of Dunboyne Brian fitz Patrick McDonnell of Gourtneclay in the queens County which Brian was & is <C> slayne in the rebellion. William fford Clark vi c car of Ros connell Thomas Evans of Ballinegeery William Carter ofyeoman William Hosey of Drumsenneck yeoman Dermott his brother Thomas Tovin of Drumsenneck aforesaid. George Hetherington of & brother to William Hetherington of the same place towne nere Balli r owe n Walter Hetherington of Rathnebroage gentleman, William ô Dowgan of Cogheneclaghe of Cappanaclogg <Cappannaclogh> gent and James & Walter his sonns & others of his sonns alsoe whose names hee knows not Teige ô Dowgan of Cremeoge nephew to the said <D> William Donell Dowgan of Capaloghlen gent and his children John Hore of Downe & the preist his sonn & the rest of the said John Hores Children William McEdmond Lawlorgh e of Coole yeoman All of the Queens County: And further saith that Sir John Bowen <E> of Ballyadams in the said Countie knighte, depending the first seege by the Rebells of & against the Castle of Ballilenan writt his letter to George Greames Esquire. Whereby hee advised the said George Greames to yeild vpp the said Castle & to take quarter as his neighbors hadd done And that it was noe shame for him to take quarter for kinges and p rinces queens had done the Like or to that effect which letter this deponent saw and redd and the deponent was one that advised an answere to that letter And further saith That the said Sir John Bowen during the seege of the said Castle entertained and made welcome att his howse the said Rebells Peirce ffitzgarrald and William Hetherington and others Rebells their Complicees and assistants, And saith alsoe that although the night before the first seege of the said Castle the most of the Rebells were harbored & quartered in the towne of Ballentobber being the said Sir John Bowens
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owne towne, & the said Sir John Knew the same: yet hee the said Sir John (thoughe he could) did not give any notice thereof to the said Mr Greames: whereby <ff> he might have saved his cattle & [ ] goodes: which otherwise by the sudden approach of that Rebellious Crew he lost and were by them taken away from him: And further sayth that William Hetherington ofin the said County: writt a postscript to the said letter of the said Sir John Bowen & did not (though he might) give any notice there of the intended seege by the Rebells to the said Mr Grymes And further sayth That Anthony Gay als Fay of Logocurren gent, fearing the danger of the Rebells, expressed to the Garrett fitzgarrald <G> of Timoge in the said County Esquire his landlord that he hadd agreed & intended to repaire with his family & goodes to Mr Greames his Castle for saffguard, wherevnto the said Garrett fitzgarrald sayd, I Am as able to protect and defend you as any Greames in Ireland & soe wished and advised the said Mr Gay & others his english protestant tennants to come & remove himself family & goodes to his the said Garrett fitzGarralds howse [ ] at Timoge aforesaid: promissing to protect them and all other s of the English protestants and all their goods that should come to him and keepe them in saffty. Wherevpon the said Mr Gay and divers other English protestants removed themselues family & goods to the said ffitzgarralds howse att Timoge aforesaid (which was not long after the begining of the Rebellion in the queens Countrie) their goodes being of good value, And soone after the Dempsies & other rebells came to or nere Tinnoge aforesaid Where they seemeingly (but as the deponent thincketh by the said Garretts owne consent) did take him ryding in his gro u nd s into their Custody and kept him for a little tyme amongst them, and but presently sett him at libertie and within
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341Within 3, or 4, dayes or thereabouts the said Garrett ffitzgarrold came home to this howse But before he came home vizt the same day he was taken the other Rebells hadd pillaged the said Mr Gay & all the rest of the English protestants which were soe removed to Timoge aforesaid & taken away all their goodes out of the howse of Ti m oge aforesaid: but soe distinguished betwixt those & the goodes of the said Garrett ffitzgarrald that they left all his goodes behynd them, and tooke away as prisoners with them the said Mr Gay being then extreame wea k e & his family & the said other English protestants and stripping them of their clothes drive and forced them through the cold snow and open aire & [ ] deepe Rivers, & kept them soe long that they were almost starved and at length viz s ome 10 weeks after sett at liberty the said Mr Gay being at the point of de { ath } whoe in that misery came to the said Mr Greames to his Castle where he hath ever since remained in great weaknes & extremity, expressing to this deponent those the foresaid miserables passages & hard intreatys aforesaid of the rebells towards him and the other protestants & the false & treacherous <H> dealing of the said Garrett fitzgarrald towards them with desire this deponent shold divulge & expresse the same, the rather becawse he was weake & cold not travell to expresse the same abroad himselfe, and the said Mr Gay al ia s F ay did alsoe in this deponents presence confidently affirme the same to be true to and in the presence of the said Sir Charles Coote when his honor was Last in the queens County: And further saith that the said Mr Gay did alsoe affirme that whilest he & his wife were were att Ti m oge prisoners as aforesaid they were much pressed by the preist there, & haunt ed by the wife of the said Garret ffitzgarrald to forsake the protestant religion & to goe to masse And further saith That whereas the said <I> Garrett fitz Garrald, was often requyred by the same Mr Greames, to bring in his the said ffitz Garrad warders and tennants whoe were all rebells: that they
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might be restrained from doeing any more mischeefe the said ffitzgarrald [ ] would not doe nor did the same, nevertheles for the losse of 4 of his owne sheepe he sent 4 or 5 of those tha t to be hanged to Mr George Greames his Marshall And further sayth that the other parties that are now in rebellion are theis theis that follow vizt
Thomas Smith of Water Castle
Richard Glascocke of Doary yeoman
<K> John Glascocke of Ballirone yeoman
John Mulha Mullchadd of sometime of Croobin
Richard Blacksmith of mymoyadd gentleman
John McDonnogh fynn of Ballilishin yeoman
Edmond fitz Pattrick of Booly bawne gentleman
Thomas Holahan ofgentleman
Daniell fitz Pattrick of fformolle gent Captain
Edmond fiz Pattrick his brother of Knockawdegoragh
<L> Thomas Euans the younger of Ballinegeery yeoman
William Butler of Scotts rath gentleman
Richard Butler of Booly yeoman
Donnogh Kenna & Martha Kemia of Tomduffe
Peirce fforstall of Cloghogg
Donnogh O Phellan and Donnell o Phellan of Killenny
Morgan Cashen of Curran Esquire and his 2 sonns
Hugh Cashenn and Morgan Cashenn gent
<M> Bryan o Moone alias Bardan of Aghaboe
John Tobin of the same gentleman
Anthony Cashen of the same gentleman
Nicolas Ragatt of the same yeoman
Mathew Dullang of Aghaboe
All these of Queens County
And further saith that generally the women are as bad or worse then the men in raysing of the cry wherby manny times it is the Losse of many mens Lifes that other wise might happyly escape theire hands
<Mr Aldrich Mr Watson Jur>
James Colvills [mark] {his marke}
<Jur 9o July 1642
Will: Hitchcocke
Hen: Brereton>
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Queens County
James Colvill Jur
9o July 1642
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