1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Examination of Samuel Reynolds

Reference: MS 812, fols 100r-101v
County: Carlow
Date: 14/10/1652
Type: Commonwealth
Nature of Deposition: Assault, Killing

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The Examination of Samuel Reynolds of Con the towne of Catherlagh in the County of Catherlagh taken October 14 1652.
This Examinant duely sworne saith that at the begining of the Rebellion he did live at the towne of Catherlagh, that about a weeke before christmas in the yeare 1641 he went to Leighlynbridge to his brother William Reynolds their then dwelling for gaining a subsistance, whom he found to have beene gonne from Leighlyn to Waterford for refuge. That dureing his the Examinants being there Richard Lake & some other English were brought thither but whence they came he knoweth not: & that the saide [ ] Lake & aboue twenty English of among whom was this Examinant, they were sent away from Leighlyn in a convoy of the the guarison consisting of foure files, two Sergeants & a corporall but their whose names he remembreth not
That the said convoy was ordered by Cahir Dempsy then commaunding <A> in Leighlyn bridge vnder Bagnall of Dunleckny neere Leighlyn That the said Bagnall did meete the Convoy about Knockmullin neere Leighlyn, in whose company there was then one horseman whose name he knoweth not. Being demanded whether he doth no knowe that Bagnall of Dunleckny who then did meete him: he saith that he knoweth him, & did this day se him stand among the prisoners at the barre of the high Court of justice where he was in a gray suite: He farther saith that the said Bagnall when he so met the said Convoy as <B> aforesaid, said to James Freny then present who lived about Leighlin br{idge} & to the Sergeant that commaunded that convoy, that they showl{d} convoy the people to Rosse, & so returne. His course of k{nowledge} is that he was present & sawe what he deposeth . H{e further} saith that soone after the convoy being ordered to make a { } Richard Lake was called for out { } James now a prisoner { }

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<C> by the said Sergeant & Freny; & the said James was required by the said Freny to fetch a carre to hang the said Lake, which he refused to do: & was thereupon wounded by the said Freny with his sword, & compelled to fetch the said carre & another carre was also brought but by whom this Examinant knoweth not: on which carres the said Lake was hangd to death by the said James the now prisoner as aforesaid. And saith that the said Convoy goeing a litle farther they returned leaveing the said said English but whether to another convoy or otherwise he knoweth not: & as for him this Examinant he made meanes to returne with the said convoy to Leighlyn, feareing the danger on the way, & hopeing for an oportunity to escape from Leighlyn to Carloe then an English garrison where the Examinants friends then were. And further saith not.
his marke
Samuel [mark] Reynolds
deposed before vs me
Hen: Jones

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Examination of Samuel
Reynoldes toucheing
the murther of Richard
Lake

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Henry Jones