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{the Towne of} {Ballin } {in the} said Countie in the night time and haueing robbed and pilladged diuers houses in the same he then and there forceably tooke and carryed away woorth Two hundred pounds of this examinants goods aboue mencioned, He likewise declareth That vpon the 17th of december aforesaid or therabouts this examinant (haueing fled to Kilkenny where he Imagined to be salfe) was robbed of his goods there woorth one hundred Twenty seven pounds <B> by the meanes or hands of the lord Mountgaret, the lord of vpper ossery and Phillipp Purcell (son in lawe to the said Mountgarrett & others) & then this deponents bills & bonds aboue mencioned were forceably seized vpon by the said parties & their followers. Aboute the 24th day of december aforesaid this examinant after he and diuers other English and protestants to the number of seven score persons men women & children or therabouts were stripped by the said Mountgarretts followers and forces, the said Mountgarrett gaue directions to Edward Butler (one of his sons) & that by much entreaty of the Countesse of Ormond to yConvey the said stripped parties to Waterford for which he was to haue fiue and Twenty pounds for his paines for himself and his company, but the said Butler in a perfidious maner & notwithstanding his said contract and after receaueing the said mony conveyed them noe further then hard by a place called Knocklogher and that ten miles from Waterford aforesaid, and ther left them exposed to be pilladged and stripped the second time by the Contry people, & then & there this examinant obserued that diuers children were left by their parents in the high way that to this day it is not knowen what is becomes of them haueing neither horses nor cariadges from for them. Hee alsoe declareth that being soe diserted and forsaken by the said Butler, the said stripped people being in number seven score
