Examination of Richard Gardner
- Reference: MS 831, fols 265r-266v
- County: Galway
- Date: 13/12/1652
- Type: Commonwealth
- Nature of Deposition: Arson, Multiple Killing, Robbery, Stripping, Words
- How to Cite
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December the 13th 1652
The Examination of Rich: Gardner of Portumna one of the Lord Presidents Troope Aged about thirty yeares taken as followeth
Rich: Gardner being Examined vpon saith Oath saith, that being besieged in the Steeple of Roserke by Captain Robert Barrett & others, three quarters of A yeare Mr Edmund Burke of Rappagh writ to them that if wee they would Deliuer up the Garrison to him he would see us safe conveyed to any English Garrison & wee (not knowing how to returne an Answer to him) espyed A servant of his <A> and there was A Lettre wrote to Mr Burke, and put [
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stript them, & this Examinants mother & wife returned soe stript to bally Cottle, where his mother in Law stayed with his ffather in Law, and was afterward murthered going betweene Ballimote & Boyle, but the Examinants wife returned to Roserke where shee staid with the Examinant, till a Party of the Parliaments fforces under the Lord Presidents comand Came & releiued them And being Asked whether he told Mr Edm Burke of Rappagh of the murther of Mr Walker & his man & the stripping of his wife & Mother he saith he did, who replyed he could not helpe it
This Examinant being asked whether he knew any thing of those that were murthererd & Drowned about Moyne and Killally saith, that being in the steeple of Roserke he heard that one James Dexter (having his boate taken away by three Scotch men, who made an Escape with it into Vlster) with some of his men and some others of the Irish that he gott together, gathered what Brittish he could together, and there had them murthered & Drowned
This Examination was taken and subscribed before Me the Day and yeare above written
Cha: Coote
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The Examination of Richard Gardner
December the 13th 1652
conc. the murder of Walker &c.
Charles Coote