Examination of Thomas Charles

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The Examination of Thomas Charles, take{n} the xxth daie of June 1642; Before me Chancellor of his Maiesties Court of Excheq{uer} By direction of the right honnorable the Lordes Justices & Councell.
Who beeing sworne & Examined, saith, that about the midle of November, last past (soone after the begining of this present Rebellion) hee) this Examinant had att Dowth ten Cowes, which hee desired the Ladie Netterf{eild} to keepe for him, who answeared she had noe grasse to keepe them, but would buy them att her owne price vnto which this Examinant replied, that if she would giue him readie mony att a reasonable rate she the said Ladie Netterfeild should haue them, vnto which she made answeare that she would give noe readie monyes for them. Wherevpon this Examinant said hee would goe to the Lord Moore to gett grasse for his Cowes vpon his Lordships Land of Proudfootston, & therevpon tooke awaie as many of th{e} said Cowes as hee could gett And the said Ladie Netterfeild told this Examinant (as she was sitting on her bedd in the morneing) that hee should not {medle} with that Land of Proudfootston, for that Sir John Netterfeild her husband intended to haue itt for himselfe. And his Examinant further saith that about ten daies after Allhollantide last past, as hee was going to the Castle of Dowth, where his wife & children were hee this Examinant mett with Henry Smith Tennant to

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Sir John Nettervill, & one ffather Bryan a Preist whom this Examinant following, hee heard the said Smith say that the Irish would starue the English in Drogheda within two Monthes space, And the next day after the said Preist & six other of Sir John Netterfeilds servants, his Coachman, Groome, & others, went to the Towne of Drogheda, & as they went said in this deponents heareing, that itt was an easie matter to take that Towne, ffor there was noe watch kept on the South side thereof. And that the Irish might come ouer the water in Beauly Boates to take itt, & soe going into the Towne tooke theire horses, saying, that Sir John Netterfeild himselfe was to goe to Balligarth that night.
Rob Meredith

Of Thomas Churles