Deposition of Elizabeth Trafford
- Reference: MS 817, fols 212r-
- County: Longford
- Date: 31/1/1644
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing, Stripping
- How to Cite
fol. 212r
(97)
Elizabeth Trafford late wiffe of Thomas Trafford deceased late minister of the parrish of Ballimccarmuck in the County of Longford (In be adition to her examjnacion to her formerly taken) further deposeth and saith That after the presente Rebellion begun vizt on or about the xxixth of October 1641
<A> Francis ffarrell of the Moate of the same County Esquire Conaght mc Crosse ffarrell Rory Mc Garrald ffarrell Roger Nangle Murrogh mc Edmund ffarrel of the Ryne & Bartholomew Nangle of Longford merchant all of the county of longford together with a great number of others their partakers & souldjers rebelliously and by force & armes martched vnto and came before the Castle of Longford, & then and there beseiged the same & suffered noe manner of provision to come there into vntill those that were within the said Castle were forced to demand Quarter, which being granted unto them An instrument in writeing was therevpon drawne vp & signed by the said ffrancis ffarrell and the rest of the Rebellious persons aboue named & others not named, to this effect vizt, That those persons that were within the Castle should bee saffely conducted out of the same County of Longford with their wearing apparell and horses: But saith that notwithstanding that writeing soe soone as the said Castle was deliuered vpp, They the said <B.> ffrancis ffarrell Conaght ffarell Rory Mc Gerald ffarell Roger Nangle Morogh mc Edmund ffarell Bartholomew Nangle and the rest lockd themselues vp in the Castle vntill the Common Rebellious souldjers hadd first stripped all those that came forth of the Castle of all their apparell and what they had (after the Quarter given them) And that done murthered all the eight men that came out of the Castle which were eight in number whereof one was a minister but the rest escaped into the woodes and soe saved themselues by flight
Elizabeth traffod
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Jur vltimo Januarij 1643
Hen: Jones
Hen: Brereton.
(endorsement on
fol. 212v
)
Henry Brereton
Henry Jones