Examination of Neile oge ô Quin
- Reference: MS 838, fols 038r-039v
- County: Derry
- Date: 17/3/1653
- Type: Commonwealth
- Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Military Action, Multiple Killing, Words
- How to Cite
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The examinacion of Neile oge ô Quin late of the parish of Lissan in the County of Londonderry Gent: taken before vs at Colerane the 17 day of March 1652
Who being duely examined saith That vpon Thursday or Friday the 21th & 22th of October in the yeare 1641 Cormacke ô Haggan since killed by the <A> Brittish at the battell of Clownush sent a letter vnto this Examinant vnto his house about three Miles distant from Moneymore desireing his Company there, for that his sonn Shane O Haggan with his Company of ffoote which he had raised by the Kings Authority & had license to transport for Spaine were ready & would on the said ffriday randevous at Moneymore That vpon the said lettre he went vnto Moneymore with two boyes to wait on him vpon Saturday the 23th of October in the afternoone & the
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the first man he mett with in the Towne was one James Younge a Scotchman who dwelt then in Moneymore & now or about two yeeres since lived in Antrim, which James Young with his sword drawne & his pistoll in his hand being standing in the Street this <B> Examinant asked him what was the matter & he told this Examinant that the said Companey which Shane ô Haggan had raised to carry for Spaine were quarrelling with the English & Scotch in Moneymore Vpon which this Examinante tooke his pistoll from him there being a great Companey of Irish in the Street least he should hurt any of them & he & the Examinant went to the same James Youngs house & locked the doore least he the said James Younge should goe out or the Irish come in to doe him hurt And being demaunded why the Irish & Brittish at that tyme quarrelled he saith he did not much enquire but heard that it was by [
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Lissan & before he came thither Patricke ô Mallan since hanged at Dublin & Phelomy Modder ô Haggan killed at Glanmaquin fight with about twenty Irish men had surprised Sir Thomas Staples house. Wherevpon this Examinants men & those he raised in the Towne <D> being about forty men broke in vpon them (they being vnarmed) & put them out of the house. That Sir Thomas Staples was no{
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over the Brittish he returned unto his Command at Lissan And all the Brittish Inhabitants of Lissan remained safe & vntouched in <f> body or goods by this Examinante or any of his men & none of them were kill’d vntill the Redshankes or Highlanders vnder the Command of Allester McColl came over the Bann in May 1642 And being demaunded if some of the Youngs who were Inhabitants of Lissan were not murdred there he saith that Andrew Young was about Christmas 1641 murdred in his owne house in Lissan (this Examinant being then absent) by James mcIveagh his fellow prisoner & one Henry O Haggan since kill’d as the common report went, & alsoe he saith that he heard one James Young & John Armstrong were kill’d by some of the Irish goeing from Lissan towards Moneymore But this Examiannt saith that he or his followes did not kill or were present when any were kill’d about Lissan but saith that he afterwards arrested the said James McIveagh & Henry ô Haggan at Dungannon & caused a Councell of Warr to be called vpon them before Sir Phelomy roe where they came of but he doth not know how And further he saith not
Tho: Coote
Rich: Brasier Maior
Richard Brasier
Thomas Coote