Deposition of Gregory Hickman

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Gregory Hickman of Barnoutwick in the parish of Clare [also] the baroney of Ilands & c within the Com of Clare gen: a brittish protestant duely sworne & examined before vs by vertue etc deposeth & sayth
That on the 29th of Nouemb: last the deponent was imployed by the Right Honourable the Lord Baron of Inchyquin in the ship called the Dragon <A> of Youghall to passe in her from Kinsale to the riuer of Limericke there to sell off a parcell of old Tobaccho which lay in the store house of Kinsale thereby to rayse some mony for the payment of the army in Mounster about the first of December following the deponent came to the said riuer & cast Ancor before the Glyn Castle where the Lord fforbes lay with seauen or Eight shipps of his ffleete, who had layen there from a weeke before Michaelmas to that time & soe for the space of a month after or thereabouts but to what end the deponent knoweth not but this the deponent knoweth that little or no service was don by that fleete (allthough the wind was oftin fayre to passe out of the Riuer) during all the time of betweene Michaelmas day till imediately after Christmas following within which time the souldiers there lay staruing there hauing dyed in the Riuer of Lymrick 7 or 8 hundred souldyers by their fellowes owne confession, the shipps being all for the most part merchants shipps, who then and there lay trading dayly with the Rebells for Tobaccho and other Commodityes to that end held a continuall market once or twice a weeke at Tarbot in the Com of Kerry, whither resorted the Rebbells of that Com: besides the like intercourse with the Rebells in the Com of Clare on the other side of the water: this the deponent vnderstanding when he came to the Glin Castle repayred to Bunratty to the Earle of Thomond where he landed part of his Tobaccho Complayning to the said Earle of the said dealing of the ffleete with the said Rebbells shewing then the warrant vnder the hands of the Councell of Dublin for whether his authority was to sell tobaccho to any Rebbells or not: vpon this one Henry Newman late a merchant of Lymrick <B> who was one of their factours was convened before the said Earle who was charged by the said Earle not to sell any more haueing no authority so to doe, notwithstanding the Earles commaund the said Newman, & one Nathaniell Brady, a factour in Capt Constables shipp sold off some thowsands wayght of Toba{ccho} besides indigo & woollen cards both to the Rebbells the merchan{ts} of Limerick & diuers people of the Count{r}y & thus the designe for the releife of the Munster Army was frustrated the deponent being not able in the space of 16 or 17 weeks to sell aboue 2000 wayght of Tobaccho & that at low prizes whil{e} the deponent was thus negotiating in & about the Riuer about the middle of Jan: last after the said fforbes was gon out of the Riuer, he went to Sir Teig mc Mahons house in Thomond where he was well acquainted which said Sir Teig had bin a fauourer & protectour of the English who gaue also 10 gr{eate?} barges of wood to releue the ffort of Gallway euer since the{e} rebellion the boate hauing carryed the deponent {c}omming {backe} agon strook a ground & that tydings was sent to Teig {Roe} by one Morrogh o {K}elly of Carroughbane in the bar of {Clanderalagh}

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[Con] & soe was taken by Teig Roe O Bryan third sonn to Sir Donell <C> O Bryan of Ballykitt & his company who with the boat took four English men & an Irish man who confessed where the deponent was together with one Dauid Crosby of the Iland of Kerey the next morning Sir Teig mc Mahons Castle called Clanderalagh was beseidged by the said Teig Roe O Bryan, Bryan mc Shane of Colislee in the bar: of Clanderalagh gen also the yongest son of John Clanchy nere Veleans in the bar: of Bunratty gen: with diuers of the Gormans vzt Skanlane mc Gorman within the bar: of Ibrackan gen: with diuers others to the number of one hundred at least thy they being beseidged for two nights the Castle wanting prouision the deponent yeilded vpon quarter & on condicion that he might be Convayed to Sir Donell O Bryans house at Ballykitt t{he} next morning the deponent was released hauing a passe to goe to Bunratty within a mile & in sight of the said Castle the deponent <D> was taken prisoner agan by some of Teig Roes Company and carryed to a Castle where one Dominick Creagh commanded in cheife called Donekeroge where the boatemen were prisoners where vpon covenant of a hundred waight of Tobaccho & the deponents sword to be giuen among them the deponent was convayed safe to the waters side to a Castle called Carraghlon by one Mathew Gellareagh Leiut: to Teig Roe O Bryan & Morrice Glasson Sir Donell O Bryans Clerk nere the Castle lay Mahon mc Mahon alias Maghon Moyle late of Clenogh in bar: of Bunratty gen: to take this deponent agon both by land & water but by gettinge a smake boat in a <E> dark night he escaped to Bunratty which said Mahon Moyle & his son Turlogh were the rebbells that tooke & burnt Mr Georg Courtneyes house of the Aghneis in com of Limerick about <hand> a twelue month agoe; while this deponent was now agen at Bunratty he sawe diuers there with the Earle who came in vppon protection & diuers others who had no protection come into the Towne by day & eate & dranke without disturbance as namely Turlogh mc Mahown Molyes son John Mc Nemarragh of Killaghine in bar of Bun: gen: Mahon mc Nemarragh in the parish of Clanlonghan gen Cormack O Hicky of the same surgion Connor O Daly of the parish of Sixmiles bridge gen John mc Teig mc Nemurrogh of Dinginbrack gent Edmond O Hogan of Mohill in the bar: of Inchyquin gen & one John Carter of Carrouragh in bar: of Tullogh gen formerly a protestant & since this rebellion turned papist and was among the rebbells, Donell O Bryan of Dongh in the bar:

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<f> Of Corkumro Esquire Loghlin oge o Hare of Drumkerran in the Bar of Ilands gen: this was there the day before the deponent came thither with diuers others in open & actuall rebellion & further the deponent doth not depose
Greg Hickman
Jurat coram nob: 9o Jun:
1643
Phil: Bisse
Perig Banastir

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