1641 Depositions

Deposition of William Whalley

Reference: MS 818, fols 024r-026v
County: Wexford
Date: 5/9/1642
Type: Waring Copy
Nature of Deposition: Apostacy, Assault, Captivity, Desecration, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Words, Piracy

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<48 Exw> William Whalley late of Rosse in the Countie of wexford gent being duly sworne and examined deposeth and saith that since the begining of the present rebellion vizt in the seuerall moneths of November March and May last past he this deponent was by the rebells in the said Countie of wexford expelled deprived, robbed or otherwise dispoyled of his meanes goods and chattells of the value and to his present losse of Eight hundred pounds And further saith that the parties rebells that so robbed deprived and dispoyled him this deponent were theis that follow vizt Dermott Dooling Cavanagh ofin the Countie of wexford Esquire and divers of the ffeaghes Morgans & others whose names he knoweth not James Butler Serieant Maior of the rebells Richard White Bayliffe of the towne of Rosse ffrancis Arthure of Rosse aforesaid Merchant the

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the wiffe of Barnaby Darmon of the same andher servant Thomas a Call of the towne of Rosse Brogemaker David Morris of the same ffarmer John ô Neile of the same ffarmerLinch of the same Brogemaker James Butler Serieant Maior of that Campe of Rebells The servants of Nicholas ffitzharris late Soveren of Rosse ffrancis Dermon Captaine of 150 rebells of Rosse (who caused Duncannon first to be beseiged and divers other the rebell souldiers there vnder the comand of the Lord Mountgarrett and James Butler whose names hee <hand> knoweth not, And further saith that in the begining of the Rebellion when the said rebells had robbed and stript not only him this deponent and his wife and 4 children and but at least 140 more of English protestants his neighbours and had broken this deponents Arme, Then they imprisoned them putting roaps about theire necks to hang them if they would not turne to Masse, and some of them they most cruelly murthered yet [ and ] yet although this deponent refused to turne to masse) he was not put to death but he and many others were kept in prison in a fowle dungeon for eighteene weekes or thereabouts, during the time of which imprisonment he observed heard & sawe through the grate of the said dungeon theise occurrences & passages following vizt that the rebells in Rosse aforesaid did say that by the perswation of the romish preists they must digg for and rake vpp the dead Carkasses and bones of the heretiques meaning the English protestants there buried out of the Church and Churchyard before they could rightly consecrate the Church And that the rebells of the kingdome of Ireland had sent ffifteene thousand pounds in money and gould into the low Countries by such as therewith would buy & provide for them there amunition and Armes, and bring them to them into this kingdome, and that one of the sonns of Nicholas Barwick of Rosse merchant and one Mr Plunckett (that lived att or neere the place where Sir Henry Tichborne now or lately dwelt not farr from Jamestowne in the Countie of dublin, and that had lands also in the Countie of Catherlagh) were two of the parties (amongst others) that were imployed and sent for buying thereof. And that James Duffe of the same towne of Rosse Alderman Nicholas

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Nicholas ffitzharris of the same Alderman Henry Bennett of the same Alderman James Darmon late Bayliffe of the same towne MrDarmon Recorder of Rosse a parliament man and a Justice of the peace Mr Justice Brookes of the same towne Alderman and his 2 sonns Captaines of the rebells (theire father being a parliament man) Alderman Archer tanner of the same towne: Alderman Bennett of the same towne ffarmer and his sonne Pawle Duffe Alderman Duffe of the same towne a parliament man Captaine of the rebells (who committed one mr Thomas Clarke tanner nowe suffren of Rosse to prison, and there kept him by virtue of a warrant from the Lord Mountgarrett, and after he was released being inforced to turne Rebell amongst them; Notwithstanding which and that he turned papist and therefore contynued soveren: Yet hee was a gouernor in show meerly, and not att all trusted by the rebells but is watched very secretly severely. James Hide bailiff of the same towne and Richard white the other bailiffe & a Lieutenant amongst the Rebells: & generally for the moste part, all the rest of the towne of Rosse were in actuall Rebellion & carried armes with for and amongst them against his Maiesty & the protestants, and assisted harboured & releeved one another And this deponent (after he was released out of prison in Rosse aforesaid seeking releefe: sawe one gentleman ryde throughe the said towne with tenn more in his Company (all armed with swordes & pistolls: The name of which first gentlemen (as the Suffren and others of the toune tould him this deponent) was one Mr Piggott eldest sonn of Sir Robert Pigott of disart Knight: whoe had beene at his brother in laws Mr Williams farme within fowre myles of Rosse which he held from Job ward Esquire: And sayth that this deponent had his bible burnd by some of the Preists vizt one Mr fflaxbery before his face And further saith that this deponent was credibly tould at Rosse aforesaid That some of the wolverstons of Stillorgan in the County of Dublin, were removed from Stillorgan aforesaid with their Cattle to Banna nere Rosse where one mr stephens Customer of Rosse somtymes dwelt, but was thence driven away by the Rebells: And this deponent being at length suffered to come from Rosse to Wexford, being accompanied with 140 and odd prisoners, mett there by misfortune with one of the daughters of Katherin Stronge of Dublin, whoe is the wiffe of one { }

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Allen, Clarke whoe was Clark of the Counsell of the Rebells which woman then and there in greate passion complained that her mother was stript and hanged in Dublin by the Lords Justices and Counsells direccion And therefore she the said Allens wiffe not only swore but incensed others the Towne and Counsell and her husband: That this deponent and the rest of the prisoners in his Company should all bee putt to deathe And saith that althoughe god defended them soe as they were not putt to death yet her clamors and expressions turned the harts of those there (that formerly favoured the Prisoners) vtterly against them: Soe as they were putt to great wante & had like to have lost their lives: And whilest this deponent was at wexford Hee did then vizt about three weekes since see and perceive sitt in Counsell there with and amongst the Rebells the Lord of Gormanston, whoe examined this deponent what he did know concerning the English army: Mr Hore of Kilsawghan, now President of the Counsell of the Rebells one Mr Nettervile (an ancient tall proper man) Pater Bath of dromconry in the Countie of Dublin Esquire The sonn of Mr Hollywood of Artaine & one Long of Abbotstowne in the County of dublin farmerThe sonn of Robert Eustace of Nicholastreete Joyner, servant to a Merchant that dwelleth nere Newgate one Motley borne at Rosse aforesaid and Late servant to a Merchant in dublin and oneTurner Merchant of Dublin whoe Liued heretofore nere the highe Crosse in Dublin and is an ould man and an Apothercary: And further sajth That one Butler of the Graige and his Rebellious Company about Ester Last hangeed one Stones of the Graige, his wiffe & Daughter and his other children and kinred and ripped vp the Daughters belly being with chyld, and hanged her vp when the child hung downe out of her belly (as this deponent hath heard Confessed by some of the Rebells and by one of the kinred of them that were soe hanged) And further sayth That becawse one of the Rebells <3> hanged a yong chyld of about 3 yeres of age therefore the Lord Mountgarrett cawsed that Rebell to be hanged for hanging of a child soe yong Since which tyme the Rebells there have found out other wayes to putt yong children to death: vizt by runing them throughe with their pykes and other weapons: And further sayth That he sawe about thirty persons, which the Rebells had hanged within twoe myles of Rosse

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Those persons which were goeing downe to duncannon with a pass{e} from the Rebells thither & from thence intending to goe into England. And further sayth that Sir Morgan Cavenaghe the Rebell & his souldjers sent word by this deponent to the Lord Esmond, That Looke how farr some of their Captains heads were gotten from them They would carry the Lord Esmonds head and the heades of the Lords of the Counsell twice as farr, and proclaimed by papers vpon the wall the Lord Esmond and all the privy Counsell of Dublin to be trayters And further sayth that whilest this deponent was prisoner in wexford aforesaid vizt about five <hand> weekes since he observed and saw there a dunkirk vessell: which they called a Pinck: which brought in 120 great barrells of gun Powder or thereabouts and musketts for 500 men or theraboutes Some part of which armes and powder, was then and there deliuered to divers persons fledd thither, both of the Countie and Cittie of Dublin vizt vnto the said Mr Hore Mr Nettervile Mr Bath and Mr Hollywood & Principally to the Lord of Gormanston whoe hadd the greatest part But althoughe he Knew by sight those Citizens of dublin that had part of that powder & armes yet he cannott expresse their names. And after the same vessell was soe disburdened the Rebells and Shipmen of wexford brought vp the collours of Spaine into the same towne, & Hunge the same out of a windowe: & tooke them in while their Counsell was sitting, and after they were risen: hung them out againe for a good space, & then carried them vp and downe the streets and into the Marketstudd of wexford aforesaid in a trivmphant and boasting manner: Haveing a pyper playing before them The vulgar sort saying God bless the Kinge of Spaine: ffor but for him we should be all slaine: And after they hunge the same Collours vpon the Castle of Wexford for a long space: And seuerall times that vessell armed with nyntie or one hundreth musketters and 6 other Boates of the townes with as many or neare it in euery boate: Did seuerall tymes Lanch out of that harbour, aymeing (as they sayd) to surprise Captain Bartley or some of the Kinges shipps, and in stead of them fell vpon others: bringing in seuerall prices prizes & with all wished the townsmen to send out the poore English and Scottishe in twoe boats & they would sinck them in the sea and that they hadd a letter of Mart to doe it, from one of the ô Neiles: And another vessell of Dunkirk bearinge xviij peeces of ordinance came in thither about a month or fiue weeks since and brought for prize a scottish barque or shipp of

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fowrscore tuns or thereabouts laden with salt and wynes And the townsmen there gave out That they wold make those vessells men of warr to stopp vp the barr of wexford. And said they Looked still for more amunition and shipps to help them: And further saith that some of the Rebells brought from about Duncannon to Rosse the heads of Lieutenant Trevisa, and the head of another whose name this deponent knows not, whome they had slaine in skirmish And those heads (after they hadd tossed and kickt them vp & downe the streets of Rosse, they hung them vpp vpon the gates of Rosse as trophies of their victories calling them by the name of Traytors And the Rebells at wexford haveing brought thither the head of one Captain C Austin which they had slaine in Skirmish about Duncannon tossed and kicked his head vpp & downe the streetes, and some of them stuck knyves in his face, and then hung vp his head on the wall there: And saith that Sir Morgan Cavenaghe & his company of Rebells by the Command of the Lord Mountgarrett, hanged vp Lieutenant Esmond and ten other souldjers of the fort of dunganon which they surprised with the said Lieutenannt: The place where he hanged them was Ballihack in the County of wexford And further saith that an English shipp fraught with Cheese and other victualls for Dublin (as he conceiveth and hath heard, by mischance came to a place called the Salthowse nere wexford, (being thither brought, as was credibly reported, by treachery And that the Rebells ransacked that shipp and thence tooke all the cheese and provition together with five peeces of ordinance, which ordinance they planted vpon the towres and Walls of wexford aforesaid, where they have alsoe very manie other ordinance planted. And further saith that the Rebells of the towne of wexford have puld downe the Church there called Sct Johns, and another Church there, the name whereof he knoweth not, becawse (as they said) the Englishe should not plant, nor batter them there
Jur 5o Sept: 1642 coram
willelmo Aldrich & Johanne watson

John Watson
William Aldrich