Deposition of William Bignell

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William Bignell of Derrycree in the County of fermanagh Millwright aged about 60 yeres sworne & examined saith That on or about the xxiiijth of October 1641 in the begining of the Rebellion he was deprivd robbd or otherwise dispoyled of his goods chattells & meanes of the value & to his losse of Clxxx li ster. <258 li. present loss> And besides this deponent hath bin deprivd of & expelled from his 3 farmes worth clerely xxvj li. per annum whereof he accompeth three yeres proffits to be lost worth lxxviij li. And he is like to be deprived of the future proffits of his farmes worth < 26 li. per annum > xxvj li per annum as aforesaid vntill a peace be established And further saith That the parties Rebells hereafter named were those that deprivd and despojled of him of his said goodes chattells & meanes & that robbd all his protestant neighbours in the Cuntrie < a > thereabouts vizt Art Booy ô Muckian of darrymachassie in the County of ffermanagh gent Edmund ô Muckian his eldest sonn Loghlin ô Muckian his yongester sonn knogher mc Martin of Trasney in the same County yeoman Thomas mc Martin of Drumlutt yeoman & Gillise mc Martin of the same yeoman, brothers, all of the said County & divers others whose names he cannot expresse, And saith t alsoe that those Rebells other rebells nere Cavan alsoe stript his & his wiffe & their child (when his wiffe was great with another child) of all their clothes stark nakd & soe turned them out in very cold weather soe as his wiffe dyed of cold (as he verely persuaded; before she was delivered, & his child also died of cold and want, and himself since lingering in sicknes hath hardly escaped with liffe: And the deponent for feare of death fled away and saw the dead bodies of three other protestantes that were slaine on in the way as they he fled towardes Dublin
Signum predicti William Bignell
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Jur 16 febr Jan 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton

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Fermanagh
Wm Bignell Jur
16o Jan: 1643
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