Deposition of Gartrude Carlile
- Reference: MS 839, fols 031r-032v
- County: Tyrone
- Date: 13/3/1643
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Killing, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Words
- How to Cite
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Gartrude the Relict of Tho: Carlile late of Creena{
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<That> Richard Carlile late of Creena aforesaid, her husbands brother (whoe now is prisoner amongst the Rebells) sworne s ai about the time aforesaid, was alsoe by the Rebells robbed or dispojled of his Cowes horses Mares sheepe howsholdstuff apparell mony & one yeres proffitts of his farme freehold lands amounting in all to the value & his present losse of one hundreth seventy five Pownds ster, And that hee is like to be deprived of and Loose the future proffits of his said Lands worth thirty Poundes per annum, vntill a peace be established And further saith that as shee hath beene <1.> credibly informed & beleeveth the Rebells that Killed put to death her <B a> said husband were Brian Gowrton his late tenant & Patrick mcMartin his then tenant of Lands at Creena aforesaid: & many other Rebells <b> whose names she knowes not: And this deponent further saith that the parties Rebells hereafter mencioned (as she hath beene alsoe credibly tould & beleeveth) drowned her said father & his wiffe in the black water at Charlemount vizt Amer o Neile whoe had beene lately the heardsman to this deponents husband, & Edmond ô Neile late hird to her said father and divers other Rebells that she cannott name And the deponent heard it credibly reported that Sir Phelim ô Neile knight the gran Rebell being intreated to save their lives did notwithstanding Comand <A> them to bee (as presently they were) drowned: And alsoe saith That the said James Carlile & his wiffe flying away from the Rebells to save their lives: were killed by other Rebells but by whom shee cannot tell And that Ann the wife of the said Richard Carlile was by the Rebells thrust into the water of Creena & there killd with pitchforks And that the said Richard Carlile is was taken Prisoner by one of the ô Quins of the same County, with whome he is still in durance (if not slaine or dead (as she verely thincketh) And this deponent was an eyewitnesse when the ô Quinns Rebells & their souldjers did shoote with their guns one James Wood an English protestant (three seuerall times: But those shoots not killing him dead thos{
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Rebells then and there most barbarously mangled and cutt & wounded him with their swords soe as he there died, And this deponent was alsoe credibly tould and beleeveth that the Rebells alsoe killed another protestants by name Robert [
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