Deposition of John Keavan
- Reference: MS 812, fols 219r-219v
- County: Kilkenny
- Date: 6/7/1643
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Assault, Desecration, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Words
- How to Cite
fol. 219r
John Keavan one of the Prebendes of the Cathedrall Church of Kilkenny sworne and examined deposeth and sayth That since the begining of the present Rebellion that is to say about the xth [
And alsoe sayth that 6 English men were by the Rebells taken in or about Kilkenny & charged to haue letters from the English and to be spies: & one of them being taxed to haue eaten a letter But vpon theis vaine pretencs the Rebells then and there hanged them all in Kilkenny aforesaid & buryed them in the feildes or lanes as they did the nyne seven heads that came from Ballinakill: Another protestant English woman travelling betweene Waterford and Kilkenny was soe stamped & trodden on by the Rebells on her belly that her gutts burst forth & shee
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fol. 219v
<hand> there vpon died And further saith That a notorious Rebell by name of Joseph Rooth of ffreshford in the County of <B> Kilkenny merchant takeing occation to falle out with him this deponent at the howse of Patrick Murphy (now Maior of Kilkenny) Said, most maliciously, that all protestantes were Traitors where vnto this deponent answered, that his Maiesty was a protestant, and thought he would not include him in his speeches, vnto which the said Rooth in great coller swore by god and said, That all protestantes without exception were Traytors: And if he had the deponent in the streets hee would take him by the gray Lockes: & dash out his braines against the wall: And this deponent heard the said Rooth in his owne howse wish that twoe bulletts out of his pistoll were in the Lord of Ormonds Belly and that all the rest of that party being s were soe served (he the said Rooth being then Merchant to the Lord Mountgarret) vnto which wordes this deponent durst not reply for feare of his Liffe: And further sayth That the Cathedrall Church and Comon hall of Kilkenny were ryfled ransacked and robbed by the sept of the Coddies Dobbins, and the servantes and Confederats of Redmond Purcell of the irish towne of Kilkenny (as this deponent hath credibly heard) And an English man by name one Tristram being sent by his Lady & [
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Jur vj to July 1643
Hen: Brereton
Will: Aldrich
Edw Pigott
Cert
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Edward Piggott
Henry Brereton
William Aldrich