Deposition of Ambrose Bedell
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Ambrose Bedell gent sonn to the late reuerend father in God William Lord Bishop of Kimore in the County of Cavan (by the crueltie of the Rebells deceased sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That since in the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof his said father in his lyfetime; was deprived robbed or otherwise dispoyled of his meanes goodes & chattells of the value and to his present losse of fowre thowsand and three score powndes ster
And this deponent was alsoe deprived robbed or otherwise dispojled of his the possession rentes & proffites of his landes and farme & of his goodes and chattells worth CCCxxxj li. x s. ster, And is like to loose the future rentes & proffitts of his said Landes and farmes worth Nynety six Powndes per annum, vntill a peace bee established
<a > And further sayth that Edmund Mc Mulmore ô Rely of Esquire came about the 19th or 20th of November last 1641 to the said Lord Bishops howse and Comanded him to turne out of dores about 200 of aged persons women and children of protestantes whom (with others before that tyme departed from him) he had since the begining of the Rebellion harboured and releeved; The said Edmund alledging that the said Bishop must not kepe those English to devowre the meate (meaneing the said Bishops meate) which belonged to the souldjers meaneing his the said Edmundes rebellious Company
But the said Bishop professed That whyle he had a bytt for himself never a Child there to his power should want and whil when all was gone he would trust in god for more, wherevpon the said Edmund told him that the next day he would show him the most woefulle spectacle that euer he beheld To wittt he would hang all those people before his owne face, And accordingly the said Edmund the next day came with about 200 foote and 20 or 30 horse & entering the said howse seised on the person of the said Bishop & on all his goodes, turned the poore stripped people out of dores to shift for themselues, many of which perished by the high way with Cold & hunger, others were killd with the barbarous people and some escaped to dublin as this deponent hath credibly heard: But this deponent with the said Lord Bishop his father, Mr William Beadell this deponentes older brother & his brother in law Mr Cloghy ministers were by the said Edmund carrjed prisoners to Clowater Castle And this deponent and the said Mr Cloghy cast in boultes where all of them abode for the space of three weekes And imediatly after the said prisoners were sett free out of that miserable [rebellion?] Castle, where they had noe glass windowes or shuttes to keepe out the weather
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comeing of the lowgh where it was seatd the said lord Bishop fell sick and died as this deponent verely beleeveth) by occasion of such vsage in the said Castle. And this deponent further sayth That shortly after that his said father & the forenamed were cast in prison, the pretended popish Bishop of that dioces, came by the djrection or consent of the said Edmund Rely into the said Bishops howse & seised on the rest of the goods & the books which were in the said howse & there liveth And further sajth that this deponent < b > was tould by Phillip mc Gaghran a Rebell That Shane mc Gaghran his nephew did stabb and run throughe with a skeane one Peter Crosse after another had made him to confesse his mony and given it him; He being a very ould man And that at the same time the said Shane alsoe cutt of one of the armes of the said Peter Crosse his wife (she being alsoe very ould vizt about 70 or 80 yeres of age) And threw her soe wounded vpon the body of her murthered husband And that then the said Shane threw a banck of earth vpon them both (They lying in a ditch) Soe as she was thereby smothered and buried alive And further sayth That a poore Scottish boy about 8 or 10 yere old) after that this deponent & the rest were f lying gone from the said Bishops howse flying away to shift for himselfe was mett on a bogg with 2 yong rebell irish boys, about 10 or 12 yeres old) whoe throwing him into a bogpitt threw turfe vpon him and held him in the water vntill they had drowned him: And this deponent was credibly tould by some of the Rebells
<x> That the River of Belturbett (where the Rebells had drowned divers protestantes) was formerly replenished with much fishe which after the drowning of those protestantes went away Soe as [no w] none could bee seene in the River within half a myle of the drowning place where abundance were caught before: which the rebells sayd was the Judgment of god, becawse of the drowninge of those people
And further saith that the said Sir James Craige knight that long had manteined Castle Croghan being buried in the Church of Killisandra his corps were taken vp out of the grave by the Rebells and cutt in peecs And they after they had taken away his Coffin and sheete & had soe hact and mangled him they threw his mangled bodie into the grave againe And further sajth <symbol> That the Rebells did often say That they would neither leave Englishe nor Scottishe nor protestantes nor any nation but themselues in Ireld: And this deponent hath heard the rebells vtter and vse divers opprobrious words against the lordes Justices & Counsell of this kingdome And further sajth that Mr Luke Dillon of Trinity Iland seemed long not to partake with the Rebells, and tould this deponents father that he was loth to Joine with them: But after when the said Luke Dillons father was dead The said Luke Dillin sayd, he had a letter from the lord Dillon his brother, whereby he was advised to partake with the Rebells to saue the old Erle of Roscomons goods And that therevpon the said Luke did Joine and partake with the Rebells of the English pale only: but not with the other Rebells ffor that they were of different Counsells & factions: And this deponent heard the meere Irishe Rebells often say to the other Rebells of the pale theis wordes vizt you Churles with the greate breeches, doe you thinck That if wee were ridd of the Englishe That wee would spare you Noe wee would cutt all your throates alsoe ffor you are all of one Race with the other English thoughe wee make vse of you for the presente?
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And further sayth that there were owing vnto the said lord Bishop this deponentes father seuerall somes of mony by divers persons some whereof are absolute Rebells & the rest owing by such as the presente Rebellion hath disabled to make satisfacion amounting in all to the sume of one thowsand one hundreth Powndes or thereaboutes: And that the parties < a > Rebells that are soe indebted to are were and are theis that followe vizt Phillip mc Mulmore ô Rely of Lismore afore in the Countie of Cavan Esquire Hugh mc Torloghe Brady of Drumloght in the same County gentleman Owen mc William ô Shereden late of Lisbeg in the County of Longford gentleman & Owne [y] ô Shereden of in the County of Cavan a Captain of Rebells And further saith that theis persons hereafter named were & are notorious Rebells & actors in this presente Rebellion & doe partake Joine with carry armes with for and amongst the Rebells against the Kinges Maiestie & his loyall protestant subjectes vizt Phillip <b> Mc Hugh mc Shane ô Rely of the Carrigg in the County of Cavan Esquire now Colonell of Rebells & cheefe Rebell of that County Edmund mc Mulmore ô Rely of the [C ] Cavett Esquire (& Mullmore his sonn whoe was high sherriff of the County of Cavan when the Rebellion began & vnder coulor of his office gott [ ] many armes from the protestantes pretending hee tooke them for the kinge) Phillip mc Mulmore ô Rely his secnd brother Hugh Dangher ô Rely their base brother Hugh Booy Rely of Carrigg gentleman & Phillip Roe ô Rely both lately comen over out of the Low Cuntries Tho: Bradie of Lowy Clarke Robert mc Water ôf Brady gent <Carlinstown> Robert mc Edmund of [C ] Carlinstoune Esquire Hughe do u g duff ô Sheredin of Enisbegg gent Brian mc Owen ô Sheredine of or nere Cortubb{er} gent Owen mc Turloghe Rely of or nere Conieatt gentleman Hugh Bradie of or nere the poll of Brallaghe gent Brian Moder ô Rely of Clowater a merciles & bloudy villaine Mulmore mc Phillip o Rely of Trinity Iland gentleman Owen Grane o Rely of Clowater
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<d > aforesaid gent Brian mc Cabe of Mulloloughe all of the County of Cavan Charles mc Gowran of Castlegowran in the County of Lejtrun Esquire Gillernow ô Gowran of in the same County Esquire Turlogh oge mc Gowran of Bellaconen gentleman Rory Maguire of Castlehassett in the Countie of ffermanaghe Esquire Redmond oge Maguire of Drumlought in the same County gentleman Redmond oge mc Cawley of Mackan in the same County Esquire gentleman Patrick oge Maguire of in the same County gentleman Knogher o Rely of <e> the Bolgan in the same County gentleman & James mc Cabe late of Tittraghe in the parish of Drumlane gentleman in the County gent nowe deceased who was a notorious Rebell before his death Edmund Galtaghe mc Kernon nere Balleconan in the County of Cavan gentleman Knogher ô Rely of Brianrum in the same County gent Richard Ashe of Lisnemaine in the County of Cavan Esquire a notorious Rebell Mulmore mc Hugh mc Shane o Rely brother to Phillip mc Hughe mc Shane o Rely Esquire, Tirlogh o Rely sonn to the said Knogher ô Rely: Brian ô Gowen of of the parish of of Dinn & Cahir Barnogh ô Rely of the same [ ] wanderer
Ambrose Bedell
Jur xxvjo Octobr
1642
Joh Watson
Will: Aldrich
[ ] Cavan
Mr Ambrose Beddell
Jur 26 Octobr 1642IntwCert fact
Hand w
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[Copy at Ms 832, fols 121r-122v]