Examination of Jane Cooper
- Reference: MS 821, fols 202r-203v
- County: Tipperary
- Date: 12/11/1652
- Type: Commonwealth
- Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing, Stripping, Succour, Words
- How to Cite
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The Examination of Jane Cooper of Cashell in the County of Typperary widow taken at Clonmell the Tweluth of Nouember 1652
The sayd Jane Cowper aged fifty yeeres or thereabouts being duely sworne and Examined saith That at the beginning of the Rebellion her late husband Mr John Cooper was Minister of the Gospell at Cullen in the said County of Typerary, That vpon the first breaking out of the Rebellion, this Examinant, her said husband, old Mr Thomas Whitby, Mr William Hibard, Mr Richard Ely now of Clonmell merchant, William Blake now a Miller of Clonmell & one Joane Parcell Parker now in Clonmell, and many Margarett Dixon John Jones Katherine Jones his wife, and many other English men women and children whose names this Examinant now remembreth not, went into the Castle of Cullen to secure themselues against the Irish then rising vp in Rebellion generall{
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<E> The Examinant further saith That shee hath seen the paper annexed concerning the said seige of Cullen. and that she knoweth it to be her said late husbands handwriting, And afterw ard sher husbands <death> shee kept the said paper and now deliuereth it together with this Examinacion. And further shee saith not.
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(remnants of seal)
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The Examinacion of Jane Cowper
Concerning Cullen busines
Against Lo Castle Connell
William Bourke &c
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against
Lt Col Bourke
Lo. Castle connell
Captain Hibard
Lo. Roch.