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George Cooke late of Lissegney in the County of Cavan yeoman sworne saith and John Cooke his sonn sworne say
That on or about the fowre and twentith of october now Last past one Turlogh Brady servant to Phillipp o Rel <a> Mc Hugh mc Shane ô Rely one of the knights of the present Parliament now a notorious captaine of rebells & dwelling at Ballinecargay in the County of Cavan: and others the servants of the said Phillipp came to this deponents Geo: his howse at Lissegny aforesaid and there by warrant from the said Phillip comanded the deponent to deliuer vnto him to [be ? ] him the said Turlogh to be delivered over to the said Phillip & with him to remaine vntill he shold know to the contrary p er this deponents cattle and goods wherevpon this deponent as inforced therevnto sent and deliuered to the said Turlogh 60 beasts & cattle worth 120 li. 20 horses and Mares worth 40 li. sheepe worth 120 li. hay and corne worth 250 li. howsholdgoods & other provision worth 40 li. & after other goods worth x li. whoe carried the same to or to the vse of the said Phillip his Maister whoe haveing received those goods imployed his souldiers to take the rest of his the deponents goods which they did accordingly & then the said souldiers Rebells expelled and drive him from his howse and farme at Lyssegny aforesaid and from other grownds wherein his interest was worth 40 li., And although this deponent hadd a passe vnder h for his wife & children vnder the hand of the said <this to the [end?]> Phillipp ô Rely yet his rebellious souldiers stript [ ] them of their clothes and cruelly vsed them. And further saith that as this deponent and his wife & children fled away < [ ] > for or towards Dublin they mett at Kells with a protestant minister by name one Mr Sharpe whoe had 3 children & carried 2 of them on his back: whom the then Rebells perceiveing to be a protestant minister did most barbarously hack cutt in peecs and murther, [ ] and thrusting into his body 3 or 4 pykes together, and threw him into a ditch
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of water where they left him But becawse the deponent George Cooke to save his life fled from them he cannott tell what became of the said ministers poore children <P.> And this deponent John Cooke further saith that the same night that the said Torlogh Brady tooke away his this deponents fathers goods he the said Turlogh tould this deponent That that w action was a great rebellion and that all Recusants the papists in Ireland were in Rebellion at that tyme against the king and Counsell and me that the Lord mc Guire had then taken the Castle of dublin and that the protestants must be banished out of the kingdom & the papists would have the same themselves And about the same tyme one Turlogh ô Gowen <b> alias Smith (a popist preist) demanded the key of the Church of Lara from the deponents brother which being delivered vnto him: he the said Turlogh then sayd that the papists <f> would have their churches lands & goods kingdome to themselves from the english & be noe more slaves to the English as they had beene or els they wold loose their lives
George Cooke
John Cooke
Jurat: Jan: 22o. 1641.
Hen: Brereton
William Aldrich

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Geo: Cooke Com Cavan
Jur 22o Jan: 1641
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