Deposition of John Rutledge & Christopher Armstrong ex parte John Pawlett
- Reference: MS 830, fols 018r-019v
- County: Roscommon
- Date: 7/11/1642
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Death, Killing, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Lost by Debts
- How to Cite
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John Rutledge late of Trust in the County of Roscoman Late Tenant to John Powlett Late of Derrycomon in the said County Esquire: & Christopher Armstrong of the same gent sworne & examined depose and say That since the begining of the presente Rebellion vizt about the vijth of November 1642 1641 The said John Pawlett (bei{
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<I>CC l xx li. on e hundreth & seventy pownds per annum vntill a peace be established: And further say that as they have very credibly heard from those protestants that escaped That the Rebells had murthered & putt do to death all the English and Scottish pr that they could Light vpon within the seuerall Counties of Mayo & Sligoe: & suffered none to live nor escape the with their Liues other then a very few that privately gott away And that such were the barbarous & inhumane Cruelties of the Rebells that somtymes they inforced the wife to Kill the husband the sonn to Kill the father & the mother; & the daughter to Kill the Brother: & then they wold hang or putt to death these last blou d shedder malefactor s And this deponent John Rutledge: of his knowledg saith That the Rebells in the County towne of Sligoe forced one Lewis the yonger to kill his father & then hangd the sonn And in the Moyne in the Countie of Mayo the Rebells cawsed one Symon Lippers wiffe to Kill her husband: & then cawsed her owne sonn to Kill her: & then they hanged that sonne: And both the deponents were credibly told by some of the protestants that escaped that the Rebells at Sligoe forced divers protestants to goe into one howse, & there to kill [
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