Deposition of William Conny

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William Conny late of Balligirman in the Q.C. glouer a Brittish Protestant duly sworne sayth that by the present rebellion he hath is robbed dispoyled & hath lost in cattle to the valew – 50 s. in debts by diuers persons <Intr> some in rebellion some weakned and disabled by the rebellion – xxvi li. & that about the 9th of Aprill last he was giving had procured one Mr Wilkinson to write his examination att Disert in Mr soe Edmond savages Esquire chamber, in which dep examination this deponent gaue testimony of certen words that the wife of John More of Ballidrinas spake and that the said Edmond Savage tore the said paper and writing and fell out with the said Mr Wilkinson for so do ing And he sai th that severall rebells haue conversed layen [ ] & beene entertaynd in the said John Mores house since this rebellion and that this deponent durst not for his life venture to goe to Stradbally att any tyme since this rebellion aboue all places in the County yet ffrancis Cosby continued & aboade there & that & tr avelled freely in that country A nd further saith that att the seige of Ballilinan Garrott fitz Garrott of Tinney was taken a prisoner by the dempsys in Pollich as it is beleeved And And that Robert Robinson son of Robinson of ] [ ] an Englishman a rebell in Captain Crosbys Company & Donagh Rochford at Loghteege as this deponent hath heard & beleeveth beareth armes against his Maiesty & leige people that Mr Whitney of the same was and is a Captain of a Company of Rebells, and Walter Sterum of Durgile all the Queens Countie
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William Cony
Jurat 11 Aprill 1642
John Sterne
Randall: Adams