Examination of Edmund ô Haggan
- Reference: MS 838, fols 032r-032v
- County: Antrim
- Date: 12/3/1653
- Type: Examination
- Nature of Deposition: Assault, Multiple Killing, Succour
- How to Cite
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The examinacion of Edmund ô Haggan of Ballycastle in the Parish of Ramoane in the County of Antrim Gent: taken before vs at Colerane the said 12th day of March 1652
Who being duely examined saith That he was the Countess of Antrims waiting man for many yeares & lived at Ballycastle with her Ladyshipp That the day after the Murder of the Brittish at Portnaw to this Examinants best remembrance William Glover James Stewart & Thomas Stewart with some ten Scotchmen of the Towne of Ballycastle came vnto the Gate of the Castle That James mcHenry Esquire who since was kill’d at Ennis{
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a Carpenter John Kidd a Mason Allester begg Stewart afterwards the said Countesses Moulterer & some other men & woemen whose names he doth not remember That he did not see or know of or heare of any murdred at Ballycastle but one Jennett Speir who was kill’d on the Backside of the said Countesses stable neere the Castle but by whom he knowes not That Allester McColl McDonnell and James McHenry came to visitt the Countess at Ballycastle after the Murder at Portnaw & in the Layney soe often as they pleased & that this examinant sometimes did see them & others there And further he saith not
Tho: Coote
Rich: Brasier Major
Richard Brasier
Thomas Coote