Deposition of James Shawe

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James Shawe of Marketthill in the County of Armagh Inkeeper sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That on or about the xxvijth of November 1641 When the Rebellion was new begun, and since, This deponent was deprived robbed, or otherwise dispojled of his goodes chattells & estate of the value and to t concysting of Corne cattle hay horses Mares wynes acquavitæ howsholdgoodes proffitts of a farme ready money debts & other thinges all worth CCCL li. at the <A:> Least, And sayth That since the parties that soe robbed and dispoyled him of his goodes were theis Rebells following vitz <a> Donoghe oge Mc Murphy of the ffews in the County of Armaghe a Captain of Rebells with sevenscore or Eightscore Rebellious souldjers wh{o} came from the ffews in hostille manner: & Hugh Booy Mc Donnell of the same County another Capt of Rebells s at e with 100 Rebells more or thereabouts of his company whoe mett th and Joined with the said Donoge oge mc Murphy & his Company: & one Coll oe m c Ever m c Donnell now of [the] and all fforceibly robbed and dispoyled not only him this deponent but all the rest of the protestants of three Parrishes thereabouts of their goods & meanes: and that those and other Rebells thereabouts have then and since by killing drowneing and starveing putt to death above fifteene hundred protestants within the said 3 parishes thereabouts vizt the Parrishes of Mullebrack, Logilly & Kilcluny: And this deponent was by the Rebell Torloghe oge o Neill kept together with his wiffe and children & others in the (as prisoners or people that durst not sturr abroad) in the howse of the said Turloghe oge ô Neille at Clancarney in the County of Armagh for about 6 months together Where his wiff dyed of greefe & his 3 children dyed alsoe, and this deponent at length was ransomed in exchang for a popish priest by the meanes of the right ho: the Lord Mountgomerie and soe escaped with his Liffe: And saith that dureing the tyme that this deponent was soe restrained and stayd amongst the Rebells he observed and welknew that the greatest part of the Rebells in the County of Armagh went to beseedge the Castle of Ogher where they were repulsed and divers of the Rebells ô Neills <b> slaine In reveng whereof the gran Rebell Sir Phelim ô Neill Knighte gaue direccion and warrant vnto one Mulmorry mc Donnell
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(a most cruell and Merciles Rebell, to Kill all the English and Scottish men within the 3 parrishes aforesaid wherevpon that bloudy Rebell and his souldjers most cruelly murthered within a Muskett shott of this deponents owne howse 27 men of Scottish & English protestants & left them lying there where the deponent (to the great hazard of Liffe, & by the assistance of twoe of the said Sir Torloghe oges servants Comanded by him the said Turlogh to assist the deponent) buried them all, not dareing to carry them to the Church or Church yard, And hee the said Mulmorry & his souldj ers hadd also murthered this deponent and his family as the said deponent is verely perswaded but that they were rescowed from him by the said Turloghe oge o Neill & after protected by the said Sir Phelim o Neill And those wicked alsoe Rebellious murtherers then alsoe putt to death the about six week s after wee k gathered all the left protestant women and children together of these 3 parrishes by sevenscore or eightscore at a tyme & forced and drive them away from thence into the County of Downe & there drowned them in a lowghe nere to Lowgh bricklan, and at a place called Scravaghe & other places thereabouts. Soe that in deed many Rich familyes in those 3 Parrishes were quite wholly depopulated & distroyed both men women and children: None escapeing away out of those parrishes were but such as were saved by and by the meanes of the said Turlogh oge ô Neill which were about 3 or 400: And this deponent further saith That many of the very Irish Rebells in the tyme of this deponents stayed restraint and staying amongst them tould most this deponent very often and indeed it was a most common report amongst them That th all those that lived about the bridge of Portadowne were soe affrighted with the cryes & noise made there of some spiritts or visions for Revenge, that they durst not stay but fledd away thence, and this deponent observed and sawe them to come thence soe (as they protested) affrighted to Markethill saying they durst neither stay there at Portadowne nor returne thither for feare of those cryes and spiritts. But tooke grownds & made Crats in & nere the said parrish of Mullebrack: And this deponent saith that twoe of the irish Rebells whereof whoe one was of the name of Magennisses of the County of Downe, (and whoe in this deponents hearing swore he was present) When a bloudy villaine attempting after many others that he had drowned att the same tyme, to drowne one Mris Cambell a goodly proper gentlewoman & a protestant, & for that purpose offering vyolently to thrust her into the water, shee suddenly layd hold and clasped in her armes that wicked rebell: & they falling both into the water together she held him there fast vntill they were both drowned
James Shaw
Jur 14o Augustj 1643
Edw: Pigott
Hen: Brereton
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