Information of Edmund O’Murrohye

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The examination of Edmund o Murrehye of Ballibegan in the County of Louth taken before vs Sir Sa: Mayart knight & Hugh Cressy esquire this 8th of Nou
<Dermot mcaboy sworne to interprete truly>
<A> Who saith that he dwelt was a follower of John White of Ballilegan in the County of Louth theis 2 yeares last past of whom he had no wages but meate & drinke when he followed him & got cloathes by with the profits of halfe an acre of corne which he wold buy when it was cheape & sel it againe when it was deare; & that he came on saterday last was seuenight to the Dublin & that he came that day from the rings End from a ship where he had bine 7 wekes before to goe as a soldier into Spayne vnder Captayne Bedlow & that the cause why he came from the ship was that ther was a letter came to them from some noble people in Dublin but he knowes none of ther names that they shold come a shoare to do the kinge seruice here & that the letter was brought by a captayne of the Kings ship or his seruant as he heard. & that when he came to Dublin he went to a ship to buy snezinge wher he was apprehended & comitted. he also saith <B> that ther were 2 companyes come out of that ship to serue the kinge wherof Captayne Bedlow had 120 & Capt Sexton 80 men who al were taken into the Kings seruice
Edmund O [mark] murrehyes marke
Sa: Mayart
Hu: Cressy

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Edmund O Murrehie
his examinacion

I find no matter
of cryme in this