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Examination of Derby Grady

  • Reference:  MS 829, fols 372r-373v
  • County: Limerick
  • Date: 5/9/1653
  • Type: Commonwealth
  • Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Succour
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    symbol 1763
    <Captain> Derby Grady of Bruffe in the County of Limerick gent gent sworne & examined deposeth and saith That in the begining of the present Rebellion 1641 hee this Deponent Lived at Ballenscooley in the same County where he was then & since robbed & deprived of aboue 1200 sheepe english breed two hundred Cowes heffers and Calves 40 plow garrans 5 studd Mares with their Colts & all his howshold stuff 5 Reeks of Corne & other goodes & chattells worth one thowsand Powndes & <A> above by the Rebells vizt the Lord of Castle Connell William Bourk of Knockersunty in the same County Esquire Derby ô Brian of Grelaghe in the same County gentleman Tirlogh mc Awnlowen mc Brian in the same Countie gent & divers other Rebells W of the gentrie & others of the three Barronies of Clonwilliam Cownoghe & Wonny in the same Countie whose names he cannott expresse And this deponent fleeing to Loughguir Castle in the same County for safetie of his life where Mr Richard <B> Hart & Mr William Weeks were Comanders his wife & children staying behind were at Ballenscooley aforesaid surprised & taken prisoners by Captain John Lacie then of the Bruffe aforesaid & his foote company & by them or some of them by the said John Lacies Comand this deponents said wiffe was sent prisoner to Killmallock where shee remained in the Comon gaole & vnder Security the space of ffifteene weekes or thereabouts: And two of this deponents sonns were likewise apprehended & sent Prisoners to the towne of Adare where the Irish Arm{y} vnder Maior Generall Purcells Comand lay And there his said twoe sonns were sensured to be hanged be[ ] becawse they were the Children of Protestantes & such as opposed their present Rebellion: Howbeit afterwardes it pleased God to stirr vpp the hearts of Marg{eret} Brian of Knocknegrane shee & Rickard Bourk of Ballivarr{ } gent to become bound for their forth comeing vpon sumons & so they contynued till they were & their mother were after discharged by order of the Lord of Muskery (whoe was then a greate Comander amongst the Irish in those parts, And this deponent further saith that in the time that this deponent was at Loughguire Castle one Gregory Thone Thorne servant to Mr Richard Hart was taken prison{er} b{y}
    B16

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    1764
    <C> the said John Lacie & his Company as this deponent hath credibly & generally heard it reported vnto him & beleeveth the report to bee very true The many Reporters thereof being of both Irish & Englishe And that the said Thorne was carried from a place called Cranshagh where he was taken to the Castle of Bruffe by the said John Lacie or some of his souldiers & from thence sent to Kilmallock where some of the Irish Army lay And vpon his comeing thither the suffraine of Kilmallock by name Nicholas Karney sent the said Thorne back againe to the Bruffe alleaging he could not fynd in his heart to putt that poore Englishman to death without cawse: Vpon whose comeing to the Bruffe one John Lacie the yonger seacond sonn to the said John lacy first named John ô k Cullane of the Bruffe Phillip ô Cullane of the same Donogh mc Koughe of the same with divers others of the souldiers of the said John Lacy the father then & there hanged the said Thorne to death: And although this deponent sawe not with his owne eys the apprehension imprisonment proseedings & death aforesaid of the said Thorne yet he hath as much satisfaction of that the same was done & perpetrated in manner aforesaid as morally can bee given vnto him: And this deponent is very well assured that the said Thorne was an honest English protestant & that he hadd done nothing worthie either of death or imprisonment that euer he heard of off or doth beleeve, but that the implacable & censles mallice of the said John wicked rebells was the sole cawse of his death And <D> This deponent hath credibly often heard it reported & verely beleeveth that one Derby Mullooney this deponents brother in lawe did kill one Captain Stumpe vpon the Landes of Bruff aforesaid becawse the said Captain Stump was for the English party & Mulloony for the Irish And that the said Mullony being taken prisoner Lately by warrant from the Governor of Limrick & others made his escape from the troopers at the howse of Michaell Blude Bluett wh in the Towne of Bruffe aforesaid where the

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    1765
    the said Troopers the night before quartered & whither the said troopers had then brought him as this deponent hath heard credibly heard
    D: Grady
    deposed the fift of September 1653
    Henry fflower
    Th: sowthwell
    Tho: Waring

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    1766
    Darby Gradie B 16

    B 16



    Henry Flower
    Thomas Southwell
    Thomas Waring



     

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