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Thomas Bagworth of the towne of Tuam in the County of Galwaie Inhoulder, sworne & examined deposeth and sayth That since the begining of the present Rebellion that is say in the begining of the month of december 1641 & since Hee this deponent at Tuam aforesaid & in Galway, and in places thereabouts, was by force & armes deprived bereft robbed and dispoyled of his meanes goods and chattells Consisting of the possession benefite and proffitts of his farmes, his beasts Cattle sheepe howsholdgoods provition vtensills ready money yarne due debts one Mare & other thinges of the value and to his losse & damage of ffowre hundred seventy three powndes twelve shillinges vj d. ster By and by the meanes of <A> the Rebells Captain Redmond Bourk of Kilcorman in the said County of Galway: & Teige Magilleley William Magilleley thelder & Connor Magilleley. William Magilleley the yonger & others whoe were all the souldjers of the said Captain Redmond Bourk but the names of the rest of the souldjrs the deponent cannot expresse: & by other Rebellious souldjers whose names are alsoe vnknowne to the deponent And alsoe saith That the said Captain Redmond Bourk was at the first trusted & authorished by the Right honorable the Erle of Clanrickard to Raise and Comand a Company of souldjers, & hadd & received his Maiesties Armes & Amunition from the fort of Galway & elswhere for those souldjers and hee billetted them vpon and amongst the English in Tuam aforesaid & other places thereabouts: And thenglish as long as they could manteined them & lived amongst them for some tyme & especially soe long as they were able to furnish them with manteinance But when they wanted mony and provision from them: then those souldjers seased on their remaining goods: & th then turned and declared themselues to be enemyes to the English, & to be flatly against them In soe=
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Insoemuch as both this deponent, his family, & the rest of English thereabouts were inforced for saffty of their lives, to fly away to Galway and other places soe deprived and dispojld of their goodes: And further saith that the other parties that this deponent knoweth to be actors in the present Rebellion and to partake with the irish Rebells against the English are <A:> theis that follow vizt Lawrence a Trey of Tuam aforesaid gent Lawghlen [ ] ô Connor of the same merchant, whoe nowe keepeth an Inn in this deponents said howse in Tuam aforesaid Nicholas Kerwin and Oliver Kirwin of the same Merchantes MrMartin a Counsellor at Law & now Maior of Galway: whoe promissed to releeve the fort there: But when he came to bee Major proved as badd or worse as then any other Rebell & would not releeve nor partake with them of the fforte, Nicholas Blake of Kiltulloge in the same <B> County Esquire: Sir Valentine Blake of Galway aforesaid Knight and Sir Tho: Blake knighte his father, whoe was slaine by the breaking of a great gun as it was discharged against one of his Maiesties shipps Dominick Kirrowin of the same Merchant James Linch of the same Merchant a very cruell Rebell: Martin Patrick Darcy of the same a lawyere <C:> Vllick Carraghe Bourk of Clanmore in the same County gent a notorious wicked and cruell Rebell: Captaine Kataline Bourk of Kilkorman aforesaid in the County of Galway whoe robbed and pilladged divers of the English in Tuam aforesaid & in other places thereabouts: William Bourk her sonn a Lieutenant amongst the Rebells: & Hugh Kelly of Levally in the County of Gallway gent
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Edw Pigott
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