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1. William Dauies aged 34 yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne & examined sayth that John <A> ô Heine mentioned by the second Examinant with a party of one hundred men did sett upon this Examinant & three English men more comeing about mr Waters of Cullens businesse from Goldenbridg to Cullen & wounded one of them & that soone after the said three men & this Examinant escaped & further sayeth that he heard that the said John ô Heine is one of the men that murthered the people of Cullen at the second seige & was a knowen person that prouoked the people to rebellion & further sayth not.

2. Elyzabeth Tobyn of Cullen adged 30 yeares or thereabouts duely sworne & examined sayeth that all the passages in the first Examinacion sett fort{h} are true. And further sayeth that at the time of the murther of the formencioned men, Woemen children. shee liued at Pollordstowne with the foremencioned William Bourke. And that she about the said time walking towards Cullen saw one by name Mary sister to John Jones his wife of Cullen sitting by the well pound in Cullen wounded & as <B> this Examinant was talking with the said Mary John ô Heyne was passing by the said Mary who cryed quarter from him, whereupon the said John replyed shee should, and all the rest of the neighbour if he had bene there first. And then sent the said Mary by one Teig ô Tyerna to William Bourke of Pollerdstowne, who mett them in the way and demaunded who the said Mary was, to whom <C> the said Teig replyed shee was a woeman to whom John ô Heine gaue quarter & would proue a good seruant if she had recouered. Wherupon the said men sayed that shee would not recouer but that it had beene better to putt her out of paine whereupon the said Teig Knockt her in the head with
Jo: Booker

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a picke wherof shee died, & further sayeth that shee being with the said Mary shee saw one John Coath leying in a ditch bemoaning himselfe being wounded & that one Teig ô Mulryan of Knocknanymy hearing the said John soe bemoaning toake upp a stone & knockt him in the head <D> whereof he presently died, And that at the same time shee mett one Dermond Henesy with a pick in his hand, who in this Examinants presence turned up with the said pike the face of a murtherd women & sayed that shee that was not [ ] that he looked for. & thence went to the place where the rest were murthered & what he there did this Examinant knoweth not.

3. William mc Therlagh of Cullen adged 55 yeare{s} or thereabouts sworne & examined sayeth that he liueing at Cullen alwayse desired at <E> the time of the seige to secure himselfe & his goods which he was denied because he was an irish man. Whereupon he went to men Bourke of Pollordstowne house & continued there & saw at the seig of Cullen the persons in the first Examinacion mentioned And further sayth not.

These depositions were taken before me the day & the yeare first abouewritten.
Jo. Booker.

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The Examinations of
William Dauys.
Elizabeth Tobyn.
William mc Therlagh
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Cullen murder

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