Deposition of William Gore

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1294
William Gore of Ballentagher in the Countie of Downe gent sworne and examined saith That in the begining of the present Rebellion He this deponent at Ballentagher aforesaid was by force and armes deprived robbed or otherwise dispojled of his goods chattells & Esquire Consisting of Corne hay Cattle horses Mares Rentes and proffitts of his Farme & other thinges of the value & to his present Losse of ffive hundred Powndes ster at the least By the handes & meanes of Bourk <a> of Ringbane in the same Countie Lieutenant a Comander of Rebells and Joane his wiffe sister to one Barnard Ward Esquire and whoe did not apprehend his sai d sister though he might after she was a Rebell But entered vpon and possesseth her estate and by divers others their servantes souldjers and Complicees whose names he cannot expresse And this deponent and his wiffe & 7 children (for saffetie of their liues fled to the Castle of Ballentogher aforesaid there haue beene resident ever since for the most part, and now <A> his wife and children are there, And further sayth That theis parties following are knowne to bee absolute Rebells & to beare Armes against his Maiesty & loyall subiectes and to have Comitted & perpetrated divers cruell and wicked acts vpon the persons & estats of [ ] seuerall protestants in the Cuntry <b> thereabouts vizt Rory ô Kelly of Errettes in the same Countie gent william ô Kelly of the same gent Neill Roe ô Kelly of Ringdiffron in the same County gent Patrick Savage of Rahalpe gent william Afye of Ringbane aforesaid servant to the said Comander Bourke Patrick welsh of Welshestowne in the same County gent and Myles Welsh and George Welsh all of the same gent Teige Afye Cormuck Afye of the same gent and divers others whose names for the present he cannott remember but will endeavor hereafter to name and add them herevnto: And further saith That the Rebells Kellyes afore named & others of their Confederats in the begining of the Rebellion when they Robbed the protestantes in that part of the Cuntrie murthered in the Island called Castle Island one Robert west and Adam Graddell twoe English protestantes And the Rebells alsoe murthered nere Downpatrick one Robert Holmes another English protestant, And alsoe murthered [ ] by handing & other deathes at downe a great <B> number of other protestantes whose names he cannott expresse
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1295
And the Rebells in the County of Armaghe drowned at the bridg of Portadowne at one tyme (as this deponent hath credibly heard one hundred & fowr score protestantes And further saith that it was reported by one of the Rebells & seconded by divers others that one [ ] whom the the Rebells had drowned at the bridge of Portadowne did afterwardes appeare above the water there & cryed for vengeance against those that drowned him it and the rest: And that althoughe the Rebells endevoured seuerall tymes to hold him & keepe that body vnder water and make him it sinck yet they could by noe meanes doe it but he it still kept above & floated on the water & cryed for vengeance as afore for a long tyme together and as for many daies together he it had done
Jur primo Augusti 1643
William Gower

And this deponent further saith That the said Barnard ward about the seacond of February 1641 went to the howse of the Lord Cromwell in downpatrick: which was then holden and kept by 100 musketeers or there abouts of English souldjers and others, and others of the protestantes and perswaded & laboured with them to deliuer the possession of the said howse to the Rebells irish saying & perswadeing them that the irish were to many & over stronge for them: & therefore it were good for them to take Quarter and save their lives Wherevpon those souldjers and others of the English beleeveing his wordes and perswasions deliuered vpp the said howse to the Rebells: vpon quarter to haue half of their armes and some victualls which was performed: & soe the howse & half armes & other goodes being left to the Rebells they stayd in the howse vntill the provision was spent, & then the Rebells burned and quite spojled that howse & soe went from thence the howse being but a faire goodly howse & but lately before built by the said Lord Cromwell
William Gower
Jur primo July 1643
Will: Aldrich
Edw Pigott

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1296

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1297
Downe
William Gore Jur 1o July
1643
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[hand] Ex

ad to theis thexaminacions of Captain Smith Eliz
Croker & Eliz Peirce [dd] to Dr Jones

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