Examination of Ann Stainton
- Reference: MS 830, fols 235r-236v
- County: Galway
- Date: 13/1/1654
- Type: Commonwealth
- Nature of Deposition: Assault, Captivity, Killing, Multiple Killing, Robbery
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Gallway 13 January 1653
Ann Stainton aged sixty yeares or thereabouts being Duely sworne saith
<1> To the ffirst interg: that shee knoweth Mr Robert Clarke, and that he brought a ship Loaden to the Port of Gallway but what the Loading, or who the Marchants in her were shee knoweth not
<2o> To the 2d she saith not
<3d> To the 3d this Examinant Deposes that the said Mr Clarke, and one Mr John Turner were Comited to prison, but for what cause, or by whome, and by whome enlarged she knowes not
<4> To the 4th interg, she saith not
<5> To the 5th this Deponent saith, that she Credably heard that the said ship was taken and that Mr Herring the Maister Mate was killed, and that there was others hurt and wounded in the said shipp which were brought into the aforesaid Towne,
<6> To the sixth she saith not
<7> To the seaventh shee saith, that there <A> was Irish brought into the said Towne of Gallway out of Err Connogh but by whome procured shee knoweth not
2078
To the Eight she this Examinant, Deposes that she Credably heard that Mris Collins was Murdered, and John ffox and his wife, and the Carpenter belonging to Mr Robert Clarke Shipp aforesaid, and ffarther sath not
This Deposition was taken
by vertue of a Comission to that
effect from the Right Honorable
the High Court of Justice siting
at Dublin before vs.
H: Hurd
John Eyre
2079
2080
Ex Anne Stanton
against
Patrick Darcy