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Elizabeth Bewgannon als ffargy the Relict of Robert ffargie Bewgan { non } Late Deane of Killalley in the County of Mayo sworne & examjned sajth That since the beginning of the present Rebellion vizt about tenn dayes before Christmas Last & since the deponents Late husband (then alive) and shee, were forceibly deprived robbed & dispoyled of their meanes goodes & chattells of the value of six hundreth and tenn pownds: and that her said husband & shee were also forceibly expelled or driven from the possession & benefite of his deanry worth Cl li. per annum & hath quite lost the same by his being murthered by the Rebells And further sayth that the Rebells that soe Robbd deprived and Robbed them were theis that fo Alexander McDonnell of the Barrony of <A> Tirawly in the Countie of Mayo gent And divers others of the names and Septs of the Macdonnells, the Barretts, Mackandrews the Bourkes & others within the Barony of Tirawley in the county aforesaid <I> And this deponent further saith That the Sunday next before Shrovesunday Last 1641 This deponents said husband & her father John Bewcannon Esquire; Mr Robert ffargy deane of Killall e y & one Mr Barnett, a minister & one Mr Binam another minister one Mr Robinson another minister: Mr Ansley another minister & divers other protestant men to the number of ffiftie five besides wom e n and children: as they were comeing away from Castlebarr vpon quarter & promisse which they hadd from the lord of Mayo that they shold passe saffe with their liues to Galway) were all princip suddenly & most barbarously assaulted & sett vpon by some of the Bourks and divers other Rebells, & then and there most Cruelly slaine and murthered at or nere Shrowle in the County of Galway & the Rebells then and there alsoe murthered (besids the said 55 protestants men) 2 women which were great with child: & then and there stript this deponent and all the rest of the women and children: & killed 3 more of the women and children: & those women & children that th were not stript & not kill d were exposed to starveing in the Cold weather & to the rage of the other enemyes amongst whome they wandered, but what became of them she knows not, but with much difficulty & by gods great Mercie she escaped with her liffe to Galway: And further sajth That shee
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this deponent often heard the Rebells say That they ment to Roote out both the English and the Scottish becawse they had gotten all from them by their Corts and assizes And that the Rebells Confessed that their ffryrs & preists were the cawsers of theis insurreccions and sturrs, And the Rebells further sayd that what they did was for the good of the kinge
Elizabeth fargie
Jur xixo October 1642
Randall Adams
Will: Aldrich
Joh Watson
Hen: Brereton

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deposic Elizabeth Bewcannon alias ffargie vidz
Jur 19o Oct 1642
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