Deposition of Petter Bard

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petter bard of ballicany in the County of Longford yeoman being sworne and examined deposeth that about the first of desember last past on thosand six hundreth fuorty and on hee was Robett by the Iristte rebells of the County of Longford,
It of Cowes and bollocks and horses worth thirttie three pound eight shillings
It in Corne sowen vpon the ground and in my hagard thirtty tow pound four shillings It more in Corne eight pounds It in houshold stouff and [ ] work vtensills & implements of husbandrie seauen pound six shilling tow pence
It and was depriued of due debt tow pound eighten shillings
And saith that the parties that soe deprived Robbed or otherwise dispoyled him thereof were all this being takind away by the handes of these Rebls <A> of the County of longford vizt [ ] James mc Conell ffarrell of tenelik kaydagh mc Layghline ffarrell of ballie mc braine william ffarrell of Clounart hough mc Muroghy farrell of Killmore to gether with all the rest of the reblls in the County whom I know not James oge ffarrell of Carrick gentleman Edmund oge of the same gentleman ffargus mc Edmund ffarrell of the same gentleman Mahone mc shane of the same & his three sonns vizt John shane his eldest sonn (whoe about Midsomer 1641 did publiquely did publ say That hee hoped to see all the English & Scottish burned together in one nighte) but the names of the other 2 sonns of the said Mahone mc Shane this deponent doth not now Remember,: And there was alsoe present and actors in the said rebellions Robbery Mary the wife of the said Mahoune mc Shane whoe did more crueltie against the protestants then any of the rest: & saith that the parties Rebells aforesaid. & generally all the rest of the irish papists in the Countie of longford. were actors in the Rebellion robbed the protestants & carried armes with for and amongst the Rebells against the kinge and his lojall subiects: And further sayth that hee his whenas some of the protestants in the Castle of fforbes sayd that they hoped that god and the king would giue them some releefe ere long: The Rebells answered that god & the king were asleepe: but god keepe the queene for she would send them both men and moneys often drincking her health vnder the Castle wall of Castleforbes: when they were in the leaguer against the same
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Peter Bard Jur 29o
Augustj 1642
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Castle, where the same Rebells much Rayled against the protestants & their Religion: And further saith that the Rebells aforesaid most barbarously and Cruelly murthered viijt protestants nere the Castle of longford after they had giuen them quarter & fiue at Castle fforbes: one of which they hanged & layd before the gates: [ ] saying when they saw the doggs theire was a griskin for them: and another of the murthered persons they threw into a well belonging to that Castle purpossly as the deponent thincketh to poison or Corrupt the water where it he lay 3 dayes before he was fownd & discouered by the English & where he yet lyeth vnburied for any thing this deponent knoweth to the Contrary: And the Rebells alsoe most barbarously cutt of the head of one John alias Jonathan Cobb an english man after he had lyen languishing in bed 3 quarters of a yere & was soe weeke he could not rise [ ] to helpe himself and layd him vnder a hedge, & wold not suffer his owne wife to come neere him
Jurat 29th August
1642
John Sterne:
Hen: Brereton.