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Thomas Berry & John Berry late of Mowntrath in the Queens Countie husbandman yeome n sworne & examined depose and say And first the said Thomas Berry saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion vizt about the xiiijth of October November 1641 Hee this deponent at Mowntrath aforesaid was at Mowntrath aforesaid was deprived & dispoyled of his Corne hay Cattle horses howsholdgoods improvements & benefite of Leases debts & other thinges of the value and to his Losse of Cxxx li. And the said John Berry further saith That s abowt the time aforesaid he was alsoe deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of his Cattle howshold stuff one horses rents debts proffitts of his Leas & improvements of and vpon his farme of the value, & to his Losse of One hundred & fforty powndes at the least: But whoe the parties were that soe robbed and dispoyled them they theis deponents cannott tell But have heard & thinck the Rebells that did it were Florence ffitzpatrick & his souldjers, & the tennants of Sir Peirs ffitzpatrick & his souldjers, & the tennants of Sir Peirs <A> Crosby knighte: which of Ballyfin which said Sir Peirs Crosby (as theis deponents haue credibly heard & beleeveth was & became bownd by Recognizances to his Maiesty: for the loyalty of the said Florence and Andrew ffitzpatrick to his Maiesty: at and before the privy Counsell would de or di{d} deliuer vnto them the armes and Amunition which the{y} receved from and out of his Maiesties Magazine & stor{e} att Dublin And the said fflorence and Andrewe ffitzpatrick after run into Rebellion & [ still ] contynue therin <B> And further say that the said Florence ffitzpatrick taking into his proteccion the person of one Mr Nicholson of Mountrath & his wiffe and their goods of good value, & promissing to keepe them saffely & redeliuer & discharg them att the will and pleasure of them the said Mr Nicholson and his said wiffe: He the said Florence fitzpatrick not long after
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sending them out of his howse: His servants pursued and murthered them both and left them vnburyed, And the said Florence also hav ffitzpatrick came with a great number of Rebellious souldjers to Sir William Gilberts howse called Knockinay & then fynding six souldjers in the howse offered them faire quarter & promissed them their lives yf they would suffer him and his souldjers to come into the howse which offer & promisse they embraceing and beleeveing suffered him and his force to come in whoe therevpon most perfidiously stript them all stark naked that night which was very Cold And the next morning hanged fiue of them to death vpon the gate of the same howse: Howbeit the sixt of those souldjers creeping throwgh a hole of the howse in the dark of the night escaped away
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Thomas Burye
John Burye
Jur 24o Junij 1643
Joh Watson
Will: Aldrich
Edw: Pigott

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Tho & John Berry
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