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Examination of Vlick Boorke

  • Reference:  MS 821, fols 239r-240v
  • County: Tipperary
  • Date: 31/8/1652
  • Type: Commonwealth
  • Nature of Deposition: Assault, Killing, Multiple Killing, Robbery
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    <symbol> The Examination of Vlick Boorke Prisoner att Clonmell taken before vs the 31th of August 1652
    <A> This Examinant saithe he liued in Lislowren in the Barrony of Clonwilliam in the Co: Tipperary before the was rebellion & that he was att Cashell when Coll phillip ô Dwyer Entred in to Cashell with his Army 1641 & saith that James Roch of Abyatasell neare to balligrifen & William A mc Shean ô Dwyer of Crosalle & <Bryan Kearney> Bryen Kearny of ballybeg were did att that time Kill som English men and that partickelerly one Mr Carr within the Citty of Cashell & that he was an ey wittnes of it: & further saith that the saime day he saw som of the partys aboue mentiond to Kill a man about the Rock of Cashell [ ] that he saw the said James Roch and he further saith that he then followed that he followed Coll ô Dwyer aforesaid to Cashe{ll} but had no Cummand vnder him nor any other sence.
    <B> Beinge demaunded Conserning Mr Carr he saith he Knew his howse in Cashell and saw him wonded before his owne owne dore by the said partys Roch William mc Shane & Kearny & that he was not in Mr carrs hows all thatt day.
    Being demanded whether he did not [draw] the said Carr out of his bead he saith he did not.
    Being dmaunded Conserning William Moone saith he was present when one Thomas Boorke whos father liued in Killtaine & Edmond ô Dwyer the sonn of Thomas Ro ô Dwyer of Killnemanagh did sease one the said Moone & in a garden in Cashell did hang him vp in a tree but att the intrety of this Examinent they did lett him down againe being demaunded bein whether this Examinant did not himselfe lay howld on the said Moon & threten to hang him & did hang him & so left him vntell another he saithe he did not. vntell another Came and Cut
    and so leue him vntell another Came & Cut him downe he denieth itt & saith that the said Moone had bin hanged had it not bin for him this Examinant & that he Gaue him this Examinant thanks for Sauing him him

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    him: & that the Caus of ther thretning to hang the said Moone was for that they thought he had mony Being demanded wheather he had not a hand in the Plunder of Cashell he saith he had not. & further saith not.
    Vllicke Bourke
    Deposed before vs the day
    & yeare first written.
    S: Richards.
    Hen: Jones
    Char Blount
    Fran: Vaughan

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    IX.
    The Examination of Vlicke
    Bourke taken the
    D 31th of August
    1652

    Cashell Murther



    Charles Blount
    Francis Vaughan
    Henry Jones
    S Richards



     

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