Deposition of William Gore
- Reference: MS 837, fols 025r-027v
- County: Down
- Date: 1/7/1643
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Signs and Wonders
- How to Cite
fol. 25r
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 [
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fol. 25v
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 [
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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Downe
William Gore Jur 1o July
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Edward Piggott
William Aldrich