Deposition of ffrancis Wyne;
- Reference: MS 835, fols 251r-251v
- County: Fermanagh
- Date: 1/11/1643
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Succour, Words
- How to Cite
fol. 251r
1001
ffrancis Wyne of the parrish of Clowness and Countie of ffermanaghe gent sworne and examined deposeth and saith That since the begining of the present Rebellion and by meanes thereof He hath bin and still is deprived robbed & forceibly dispoyled of the possession rents and proffits of his farme & the improvement & value thereof & of due debts Corne hay fewell beasts Cattle horses mares, swyne, appell howshold stuff vtensills sheepe and other goodes & chattells all of the value, and to his losse of ffowre hundred and ffifty pounds sterling, And further saith That the Rebells that soe robbed and dispoiled him were and are theis That follow vizt < a > Rory mc Gilpatrick mc Rory mc Maghan of the barrony of Dartrie in the same County of Monaghan gent, And Redmond mc Rory mc Maghan his vncle: both captaines to Hughe oge mc Maghan of the same Barrony Esquire (which Hugh was at that tyme at Dublin with the Lord Maguire) Patrick O Og ly of Clantoverin Com ffermanagh gent and their other complices trusted and imployed for takeing, and surpriseing of the Castle of Dublin and by one Patrick o Ogl y of Clantevin Com fferm ermanagh gent when and where they were apprehended) Owen mc Con mc Hugh mc Maghan < b > of the same Barrony another Rebellious Captain Owen mc Patrick mc Brian oge mc Maghan of the same Barrony gent: Which Captains & the said Owen mc Patrick with their souldjers at or about the same tyme robbed and dispoyled alsoe all his English neighbours in in & about Clowness aforesaid & strippt them naked, and murthered all the English they could meete with out of & about the same towne of Clowness: Not soe much as spareing those vnto whom some of the said Captanes had given protecions in writing And this deponent heard one Turloghe at that tyme the said Owen mc Patrick say that they had the kings Comission to do what they did, which pretence the deponent was & is confident to bee most false And this deponentt is verely perswaded he had bin murthered but that hee was rescued seuerall times by one Turloghe
fol. 251v
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O Connelly a popish preist, whoe carried him 9 myles out of the towne to a private place of saffetie: for doeing whereof some of the [
ffra: wine
Jur primo Nov: 1643 coram
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton
Fermanaghe
Francis Wyne Jur
primo Nov: 1643
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Henry Brereton
Henry Jones