Declaration by Robert Drury
- Reference: MS 830, fols 100r-101v
- County: Roscommon
- Date: 26/4/1653
- Type: Commonwealth
- Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Killing, Robbery
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I doe hereby Certifie that at the begining of the late Rebellion, one Brian mc shane Carragh mc Hugh (now in restrainte in Athlone aboute the Murther of owen o Corkan) was one of the first that plundered and robbed Sir Robert King and others of theire Cowes in the landes of Deirymcquirke Neere this Garrison; and that <A> the said Brian euer sithence continued a Common Robber and a Torie (vnder noe Command) about this Garrison; and neuer did lay Downe his Armes vpon any Condicions or Capitulacion; and that when the said owen o Corkan was Murthered it was credibly said by the inhabitants hereaboutes that the said Brian was the cheeffest Actor therein; all which to cleare my conscience, I thought fit to Certifie, wittnes my hand this at the Boyle this six and twentieth Day of Aprill 1653.
Robert Drury
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1094
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Leiftennant Drurys
Certifficate concerninge
the Murtheringe of
John Corkrane