Examinations of Gyles Curran

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
[http://1641.tcd.ie/deposition.php?depID?=810389r382] accessed Monday 25th of September 2017 03:13 PM

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Date: 1652-12-16
Identifier: 810389r382

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Dublin
Deposition Type: Commonwealth
Nature of Deposition: Killing, Robbery
Commissioners: Dudley Loftus, Edward Bagshaw
Deposition Transcription:


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Gyles Curran being dewly sworne and examined <A> deposeth that, about Candlemas last was a twelue moneth, upon a sunday aboute eleven or twelue of the clock in the day tyme, John Talbott of Belgart with six others in his Company being all in Arms Came unto the lands of Chapell Isod and from thence tooke and draue awaye seuerall Garrons belonging unto the Inhabitants of the said Chappell Isod, wherupon the Deponent with three others in his Company one of which was the foresayd Owen Hely miller, pursued the sayd John Talbott and his Company unto Knockvary being aboute the distance of a quarter of a mile from the said Chappel Isod, that they being Come soe farre as the sayd Knockvary, Richard Greg made a shott at the said John Talbott & his Company, whereupon the said John Talbott and his partie aduanced soe feircely against the Deponent and his partie, that they wer forced to betake themselues to flight, at which tyme the deponent sawe the said John Talbott shoote at the abouesaid Owen Hely, that the said John Owen Hely being then wounded s[ ] by the said John Talbotts shott dyed imediatly
Gyles [mark] Curran
his mark
taken before vs this 16th
december 1652
Edw: Bagshawe
Dud: Loftus


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Deponent Fullname: Gyles Curran
Deponent Gender: Male
Deponent County of Residence: Dublin
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: John Talbott, Owen Hely, Richard Greg
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Rebel, Victim, Mentioned