Deposition of William Baker
- Reference: MS 835, fols 234r-234v
- County: Fermanagh
- Date: 8/1/1644
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Succour, Words
- How to Cite
fol. 234r
625
William Baker of Tullymore in the County of ffermanagh gent Cooke aged fifty yeres or thereabouts sworne & examined deposeth & saith That in the begining of the present Rebellion vizt the xxiijth of October 1641 This deponent at Tullymore aforesaid was forceibly deprived robbed and dispoyled of his goodes and chattells Consisting of beasts cattle horses geldings mares Corne hay howshold goodes debts Apparrell & other thinges amounting in all to the Summ of one hundred threescore and seven poundes ster at least By the Rebells Rory Maguire brother to the lord Maguire, Redmond mc Rosse Maguire of in the said County gent a Comander of Rebells Phillip ô Clerigan of or nere Macravilly in the same county yeoman Brian Magaffery & Shane Magaffry of Knockballymore husbandmen in the same county gent, and divers others whose names he knoweth not And the deponent for his owne part fled into the woods to saue his liffe, & was hotly pursued & as it were hunted vpp and downe for 3 dayes together by the Rebells especially by the said Redmond Mc Rosse, whoe in his pursuite meeting with this deponentes sonn of about 14 yeres of age at a wood syde close to a thicket where this deponent was hid asked the sayd vnto the boy these wordes vizt Sirrah where is your father the boy answered I doe not know whereunto he replied if I could fynd him I would make haws hawks meate of his bones, which wordes this deponent heard very plainly And thincketh in his Conscience That that Rebell with the other horsmen alsoe Rebells that he had in his company would haue killd him (as they had done about 40 [
fol. 234v
626
And this deponent servd there the said Erle as his Cooke for 6 moneths or thereabouts: And then he and his wiffe and children escaped to Trim And afterwardes (as this deponent hath bin credibly told by some of the said Erles english servants, and verely beleeveth, that the said Erle in his comeing away towardes Trim in his coach: was by the wickd Rebell Sir Thomas Newgent
knight & Robert Newgent of Drumcre Esquire both of the county of Meath & their Rebellious souldjers forecibly drawne and halled out of his said Coach, and shott with pistoll shott into the thigh & then in pulling & drawing him vpp and downe, they drew both his shoulders out a Joint, of which that noble Erle (being above 60 yeres ould, blynd of his eyes & often struck with a dead < A > palsy) died And this deponent further saith That the very first day of the present Rebellion when the deponent was soe robbed or within 2 dayes after, the said Rory Maguire & his bloudie and Rebellious crew murthered masacred and killed theis English protestantes following vizt Mr Arthur Champyn and Tho Champn his brother Chropher Linas Mr Tho: Iremonger then subsherriff of the County of Cavan and another gent that was subsherriff of the County of ffermanagh, Tho Sergeant gent Maxi Tibbs Myles Acres Barsin Cottingham Tho Smith James Dungeon Tho Dungeon Peter Morison James Sweetwood Tho Allen Robt Workman Lieutenant Lloyd Robt Bingham Richard Crosse Henry Crosse Joseph Crosse Tho Talesby Tuisley Robt Johnson Richard Hale Raph Browne John ffurbort John ffurbort James Anthony ffurbort and < A > Thomas ffurbort x
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Jur viijo Jan: 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton
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William Baker Jur viijo Jan
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