Examination of Mary Carroll
- Reference: MS 811, fols 203r-204v
- County: Kilkenny
- Date: 28/1/1653
- Type: Commonwealth
- Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Multiple Killing, Words
- How to Cite
fol. 203r
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Mary Carroll wife of Brian Carroll of the Gurtins in the County of Kilkenny aged thirty yeares or thereabouts taken the xxviijth of Januar 1652 before Justice Donellan, Justice Dongan and Alderman Thomas Hooke members of the high Court of Justice appointed a Comittee for examjnacions concerning murder and massacres comitted within the Counties of dublin and wickloe since the xxiijth of oct 1641
Who beeing duely sworne and examjned deposeth and saith, that about the begining of the Rebellion shee was a seruant at Knockrath to Mr Job Ward at Knockrath in the Co: of wickloe and was <A> there when the same was beseiged by o by some of the Byrnes and Tooles [
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they were afterwards hanged by direccion of the said Phely m mc Redmond mc Phelym , an d shee sh as the said Phely m mc Redmond himselfe tould this examjnant and the said Phely m mc Redmond then said that hee would haue more Englishmen out of the C said Castle and hang them, for that there were more Englishmen in the said Castle then were within the quarter giuen and further shee cannott depose,
Mary Carel
Ja Donelan
Tho: Dongan
Tho: Hooke
The said Mary Carroll is bound in one hundred pounds to giue euidence concerning the aforesaid murder in the high Court of Justice sitting at Dublin vppon notice left at her vsuall place of aboade in Dublin and not to departe thence without licence of the said Court,
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The examjnacion of
Mary Carroll concerning
the murther at
Knockrath
James Donelan
Thomas Dongan
Thomas Hooke