[From Manx Soc, vol. 26]

No. VII.

DEPOSITION.

Att Castle Rushen XXVIth No. 1662.

Mr. WILLM. QUALTROUGH of Kentraugh sworne and examined deposeth & sayth, that being on a tyme a coursinge in the company of John Cesar & Capt. Gawne they had talk amongst them how that the country found themselves greately aggrived, touching the half Crownes, the Troope, & payinge money to them, and sayth that this discourse was after y^e buriall of Governor Greenhalgh as hee remembereth, but declareth that on y^t day of y^e s^d Governor's buriall, there was a mutteringe of y^e countrey's rising & of the taking of Castle Rushen, but cannott remember by whome it was spoken ; And y^t hee heard nothinge more of y^e s'd risinge of the countrey before y^e head Court day houlden in y^e yeare of y^e risinge, and that then hee heard it in the Company of Receiver Wm Xtin Comptroller Sharples, John Cesar, Phill. Moore, Hugh Moore, Wm. M'Ylearran & divers Others in the house of Robt. Burrye in the Castletown, & sayth that y^e discourse in yo company was findinge themselves aggrived with y^e pticulars above, & wth the frigotts men, & yt the Countess of Derby broke her promise in sending a man for England unknowne to the countrey or words to that effect & yt therefore the countrey would rise in Armes to declare their greivance to her Lapp, & that they would take y^e Castle Rushen that day, and sayth that it was concluded on that y^e Meetinge should bee at Raynoldsway y^e sd night ,where y^e countrey were to meete in Armes, and this examt being at Raynoldsway afterwards, there was an Outh administered to y^e foote companyes there by Sr Robt. Norris now of Douglas that they y^e countrey should sticke one to another & declare their aggreviances to her Ladyshipp or to the same effect in substance, This Deponent further sayth, that having gone from Raynoldsway to Peele Town hee receyved a trooper of horse from Capt. Sam Radcliffe ... wth this exams comanded & brought y' over to Raynoldsway doubting they were too weake there, And when this Examt came theither, y^e Receiver told him that her Lapp and the countrey were aggreed, And also sayth y^t y^e s^d Receiver Xtin was looked uppon to bee their heade or Chiefe in the said risinge at Raynoldsway, and all that to the Examt best remembrance at present.

WILLM. QUALTROUGH.

[This last Dept bears date on the day on which the Court of Genl Gaol Delivery was held, Nov. 26, 1662.]