1641 Depositions

Trinity College Dublin

Examination of William Doyle

Reference: MS 811, fols 231r-232v
County: Dublin
Date: 11/1/1653
Type: Commonwealth
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery

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fol. 231r

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The Examjnacion of William Doyle of Rowlagh in County of Dublin Smith taken the eleuenth day of January 1652 before vs Just James Donellan esquire and Thomas Dongan esquires Doctor Dudly Loftus and Alderman Thomas Hooke Members of the high Court of Justice and by the said Court appointed a Comittee for examjacions concerning murders and massacres comitted within the Counties of dublin and wickloe since the xxiijth of oct 1641
The said Examjnant beeing of the age of forty fiue yeares or thereabouts and duely sworne vppon the holly Evangelists deposeth and saith That hee did know Nathaniell Snapp sometyme seruant to Mr Siluester K Kennedy son to Mr Robert Kennedy of of Balligarny in the County of Wickloe esquire and did allsoe know John Leeson sometyme sheepheard to the Earle of Meath, and that they weere both Englishmen and as hee beleiueth thinketh Protestants Hee further saith that the first winter of the Rebellion and before the second of ffebruary 1641 Collonell Luke Toole of Castlekevin in the County of Wickloe beeing haueing then with diuers other Rebels

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<B> Rebells gotten into the house of this Examjnants Master the said Robert Kennedy Esquire at Balligarny aforesaid the said Nathaniell Snapp and John Leeson were both brought out of the said house and hanged on two s thorne trees vppon the land of Balligarny aforesaid [ ] not farre distant from the said house, hee the said Luke Toole beeing then in the house, Hee further deposeth that Luke Toole beeing then Cheife in Comand in the said County of wickloe gaue direccion (as this Examjnant beleiueth and as hee then heard reported) for the hanging of the said Nathaniell Snapp and John Leeson Hee further deposeth that hee saw the said Nathaniell Snapp and John Leeson hanging in the said thorne trees vntill they were dead, Hee further saith that the reason why the said Snapp and Leeson were hanged was (as he heard) th for takeing a prey of Cattle for from some parte of the Contry at the tyme when Sir Charles Coote went first into the said County of wickloe after the rebellion, And further hee cannott depose
William [mark] doyles marke
Ja Donelan
Tho: Dongan
Dud: Loftus
Tho: Hooke

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The said William Doyle is bound in C li. to giue euidence against Luke Toole for the murder aforesaid in the high Court of Justice at Dublin the first day of the sitting of that Court and not departe thence without licence of that Court &c

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The examjnacion of William
Doyle concerning the
murder of Nathaniell
Snapp and John Leeson
comitted by Luke Toole

by the Comittee

Dudley Loftus
James Donelan
Thomas Dongan
Thomas Hooke