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1. Antrim John (continued)

   

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   he shot one of them beside the
   girl and the other fellow jumped
   up on a ditch on the poor
   house road & he shot him with
   the other barrell of a double horse
   pistol. The girls ran screaming
   into Baltinglass when the two boys
   fell & a whole regiment of horse
   soldiers came out after him but
   Dwyer only went a few perch
   away from the bodies & threw
   himself in a heap of briars &
   they never saw him. He said himself
   he thought he felt the horses'
   feet touch his head they
   came so close to him. He
   should have been very
   undaunted.

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   Roman script

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   • Thomas Ellis