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Deposition of Alexander Murdoe

  • Reference:  MS 821, fols 082r-083v
  • County: Tipperary
  • Date: 8/3/1643
  • Type: Bisse
  • Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Death, Killing, Military Action, Robbery, Stripping
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    Alexander Murdoe late of Glankeene Duholeagh in the parish of Glankeene in the barony of Elyogarta and within in the County of Tipperary yeoman duely examined & sworne vpon the holy Evangelist before vs by vertue of his Maiestie s Comission to vs and others directed (beareing date the 5th the 5th day of March Anno domini 1641 concerneing the losses robberies and spoiles since this rebellion comitted vpon the protestants within the Province of Munster &c deposeth & saith. That vpon the 18th day of december 1641 or ther abouts the deponent last was robbed and forceably dispoiled of his goods and Chattles to the seuerall values followeinge vzt worth 32 li.
    Of cowes heiffers & one mare to the value of fiue & Twenty pounds. Of lynen & weareing apparell to the value of fortie shillinges. Of debts amounting to the summe of foure fiue pounds ten shillinges due from Pierce Butler of Comynstowne in the said County gentleman William mc Shane o Shanaghane of Curraghnefarisy in the said County gentleman & William o Shanaghan e of Glankeene in the said County gentleman. And although he accounted the same goode debts before the begining of this rebellion, yeett in regard the said parties are nowe in open and actuall rebellion therefore this deponent canot get satisfaction from them The totall of h is losses amounts to Two and thi rty pounds. The deponent further saith that aboute the time aboue mencioned Rikard Bourk of Duho Collokeile in the said County gentleman then & there with force and armes robbed & tooke away this deponents Cattle haueing then in company with him a hundred armed men or thereabouts and

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    likewise at that time came and assaulted the house of Robert Murdoe Clerke this deponents father by night & forceably tooke away his goods & Chattles. The deponent further deposeth that soone after Christmas 1641 the forces of Theo <b> balde Purcell alias Baron of Loghmay Phillipp o Dwire of Kilmalger in the said County gentleman Richard Bourke alias mc Walter of Boresholegh in the said County gentleman the said parties and their said forces (as this deponent verily beleeveth) consisting of three thousand men or therabouts entred the Cittie of Cashell in the said County without any resistance of the mayor or corporation of the said Cittie, onely at their entreing the same one Thomas Sadler then liuing in the said Cittie, shot at the enemy & killed one of them for which he was then & there apprehended & stripped this starke naked lyeing his hands behind his backe and in a tormenting maner they droue him to & from from one gate to another, & to keepe him the longer in paine nowe & then some of the enemy would come to him & stab him with skeines others gaue him slashes with their swords & some others trushed thrust him in the body with their pikes & that seuerall times vseing diuers utensills vntill at last by a lingering & piitifu{l} vsadge he Dyed. Aboute the same time Mr Hamilton the lord Archbishop of Cashells wife & his daughter were stripped at Cashell aforesaid & likewise then & there one Sara Browne alias Hamilton wife to Robert Browne <of the same> clerk was then & ther e stripped & robbed of all her goods by the meanes of the said parties & their followers, & when she was stripped in a most inhumane & vnchristianlike meaner the rebells pulling of the ringes from her fingers, with their skines skeines cutt off three or foure of her said fingers; The deponent further saith that he i s was And the deponent is credibly informed that one doctor Pullen a preacher was in a most cruell

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    maner apprehended tormented by some of the followers of the aboue <C> named parties whoe apprehended him & to wrest a confession out of him where his mony was, they tyed a gord or wyth aboute his neck & carryed him to a garden where in a tormenting maner they halled him vpp & gaue him a swinge or two aboue ground from of the bowe of a tree which had gon neere to cost him his life. & further he deposeth not
    Alexander [mark] Murdoes mark
    Jurat coram nobis
    viijo Martij 1642
    Phil: Bisse
    Ric: Williamson

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    The deposition depo=
    sition of Alexander
    Murdoe
    Tipperary

    Horrible cruelties hand

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    Philip Bisse
    Richard Williamson



     

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