Deposition of Richard Knowles

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xxx° December A° Domini 1641

Richard Knowles of Newtowne alias Castlecoole in the parish of Drummully halfe Barrony of Coole & County of ffermanagh yeoman an English protestant, aged ffifty three yeares or thereabouts beinge dewly sworne deposeth that he was Robed and lost a lease of the parte of Drumrerybegg aforesaid worth Eight pounds in Cattle worth Thirty Seaven pounds, in hay fforty shilings in houshold goods worth Eight pounds in ready monyes & debts dewe Eleaven pounds, in all Amounting to threescore & six poundes <a> By the meanes of Captaine Rory Magwire of hassett towne in the Barrony of Lurge and County of ffermanagh aforesaid, Donagh Magwire of
in the said County Esquire unckle to the Lord Magwire Richard Newgent Esquire father in lawe to the said Lord Magwire and other Irish Rebells assembled together with the said Captaine Rory in Armes the five & twentieth day of October or thereabouts about twelve of the Clock of the day tyme And further deposeth that he this deponent his wife & Children were three children were all stript by some of the said Rebells [ ] And further alsoe deposeth that the said day he did see Thomas Lane of Newtowne aforesaid gent: Aged ffowerscore yeares or thereabouts receive one Mortall wound in his head by some of the said Rebells but knoweth not the name of the partye that gave it, of which wound he dyed And did likewise see the said day Robert Lund of the said parish being an English protestant stript naked and by some of the said company and afterwards by two of them pursued being Armed with picks wishing him to Run for his life, And he striveing to over run them was mett by two other of the Rebells in the said towne streete who held two Picks against him and turned him back vpon those that pursued him, who with the said Picks struck him downe to the grounde where he lay for the space of two howers and afterwards this deponent: did see the said Lund rise vpp & goe away, But this deponent verily beleeveth that by reason of the stroaks the said Lund then had given him he dyed or is since Murthered by some of the said Rebells because he hath not since beene heard of: And further this deponent did credibly heare that some of the said Rebellious company did Murther Christopher Coats the elder, Christopher Coats the yonger, Christopher Bowser thelder, Christopher Bowser the yonger, William Marshall, Thomas Bulman, Charles Randall, ffrancis Wilkinson, Henry Wilkinson, Peter

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Maddeson, Humphrey Brockhouse, William Browne, Maxim{ } Maximillian Tibbs, Thomas Sargeant, Myles George Dickonson, Richard Lewis, Stephen Rixon, Anthony Barloe, Edward Poulter, John Mayne Corroner of the said county, Thomas Presly, ffrancis Somner, Richard Butl Butler, and John Chadwick & diverse other men women and Children this deponent not nowe remembring there names, And further deposeth, that there is one hundreth of the said parishioners that lived in good ranck & fashion) [ ] that were driven out of their habitacions by and Banished by the said Rebellious Irish, (being all English protestants) perished and dead, And this deponent is the rather Confident that there is One hundreth or more dead, by reason they dayly dye in such abundance, this deponent well knowing the said parishioners being his neighbours And he this deponent being a butcher by trade had some dealings with the most of them. And furder sayth that some of the saide Rebelles said that they had a king of theire owne in <T> Ireland.

Richard Knowles his marke [mark]

Deposed this 10th of Ja: 1641
John Watson
William Aldrich

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Richard Knowles Com. ffermanaghe
Jur 10° Jan: 1641
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