Examination of Tirlaugh Murphy

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Tirlaugh Murphy of Clansarragh in the barrony of Shelbyrne & County of Wexford yeoman aged thirty fiue yeares or thereabouts, being duely sworne & examined Concerning the persons menconed in the within deposicion saith & deposeth that about a forthnight before Christmas 1641 one Dermot mc Dowling (Called Captaine) with about one hundred men in Armes in in his Company, to whom James Downes was Leiutenant, came to the towne of ffetherd within a quarter of a mile to the deponents then residence, and did with force & Armes breake & enter the Castle of ffetherd then defended against them by the seruants & people of Nicholas Loftus esquire a protestant (the proprietor thereof) which howse & Castle the said Company did plunder, & after their plundering thereof they the said Dermot mc Dowling James Downes with James Barry of Barristowne gent Humphery and Donell Cavanagh all in Armes, came to the Rath of ffetherd, where he with the said William Jones <d> a protestant (the deponents father in law) then dwelt where the deponent then was resident, which howse the said Dermot, Downes, Barry, Humphery & Donell Cavanagh & the Retinue with them did plunder & spoile of all the goods therein & all the cattle that bellonged to the said Jones within and without his said howse that they could finde And Imediately after the said plunder the said James Downes tooke vpon himselfe the gouerment of the said Castle of fetherd where he Continued for a long time, with with a partie of souldiers vnder his comand, whereof he was called Captaine
The deponents cause of knowledge is for that he did see the said Dermot mc Dowling, James Downes his Leiutenant, James Barry of Humphery & Donell Cavanagh all in Armes <e> with about one hundred men more with them, when they were plundering ffetherd & when they Robbed this examinants fathers howse in manner aforesaid, at which plunder they stripped this deponent out of his cloathes, because hee professed himselfe to be a protestant: & that this deponent did afterwardes see the said James Downes guarrissoned
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In fetherd with souldiers vnder his Comand, where hee had the title of gouernor and Captaine, and further saith that after Dermot mc Dowling & most of the partie aforesaid had with drawen themselues from fetherd, & carryed with them the plunder which they had taken there & at the said Jones his howse, the said James Downes & James Barry came with others in their Companyes in Armes [ came ] to the landes of the said William Jones, & tooke from them two yearelings & one cow with foure garrans of the proper goodes of the said Jones & this examinant being all the Cattle that were left from the said first plunder, & the said <f> Downes & Barry entered the said Jones his howse & tooke what was Likewise ramayning of the former plunder as aforesaid, in which action the deponent did see the said Downes & Barry equally actiue, and further saith not &c
Tirlagh [mark] Murphy his marke
Sworne before vs the 6th of March 1653
Edward withey
John Walker
Richard Neale

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Dermot mc Dowling Kavanagh Ja: Downes: Ja:
Barry: Humphery & Donell Cauanagh

Dermott mc Dowling Cauanagh
Humphery Cavanagh
Danyell Cavanagh
James Downes
James Barry