Deposition of William Barry

fol. 11r

871

<28> William Barry of Cooleeny aged fifty yeares or there aboutes being sworne & examined saith that about haruest in the yeare 1641, the first yeare of the rebellion, th he knew one Thomas Sanders an English merchant was rideing from Kinsale towards Gortney Grenan to Mr Dants & by the way neare Belgooly eight irish persons lying in ambush, tooke him prisoner & carryed him (as ths deponent was credibly informed) to the white Castle a mile distant from neare Kinsale where liued one Ellin ne Knogher alias Roch, & her daughter whoe entertained the said irish persons & gaue them their suppers. afterwards asked them what they would doe with that English man; saying if yow carry him to the Campe he wilbe sent home, & then wee shalbe vndone. for he will discouer where yow haue sup’t this night, & then, I shall loose all my estate

fol. 11v

872

Wherevpon they tooke carryed him forth of the house & kild him presently immeadiatly this deponent was not present) there at the said time, but the foresaid Relacion was made <C> vnto him by William o Curke, & his sonne in lawe whoe were then tennants & seruants in the said Castle house, and present when the said words were spoken by the said Ellene ne Knogher & her daughter, & when the said englishman was carryed out & murthered as foresaid wherefore this deponent is very confident of the truth thereof and that by the said Ellen ne Knoghers meanes the said Thomas Sanders was murthered as aforesaid & further this deponent saith not

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