Examination of Mary Carroll

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Mary Carroll wife of Brian Carroll of the Gurtins in the County of Kilkenny aged thirty yeares or thereabouts taken the xxviijth of Januar 1652 before Justice Donellan, Justice Dongan and Alderman Thomas Hooke members of the high Court of Justice appointed a Comittee for examjnacions concerning murder and massacres comitted within the Counties of dublin and wickloe since the xxiijth of oct 1641
Who beeing duely sworne and examjned deposeth and saith, that about the begining of the Rebellion shee was a seruant at Knockrath to Mr Job Ward at Knockrath in the Co: of wickloe and was <A> there when the same was beseiged by o by some of the Byrnes and Tooles [ ] who were then vnder the comand of, Shee saith that Edward Sneape and a Smith and a Carpenter whose names shee remembreth not, beeing Englishmen and Protestants were in the Castle of Knockrath when the Articles were agreed on for q the surrendring thereof that a while after some soldiers came and demaunded the said three Englishmen in the name of Phelym mc Redmond Byrne and tooke the said three Englishmen out of the said Castle, and that (as shee heard)

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they were afterwards hanged by direccion of the said Phely m mc Redmond mc Phelym , an d shee sh as the said Phely m mc Redmond himselfe tould this examjnant and the said Phely m mc Redmond then said that hee would haue more Englishmen out of the C said Castle and hang them, for that there were more Englishmen in the said Castle then were within the quarter giuen and further shee cannott depose,
Mary Carel
Ja Donelan
Tho: Dongan
Tho: Hooke

The said Mary Carroll is bound in one hundred pounds to giue euidence concerning the aforesaid murder in the high Court of Justice sitting at Dublin vppon notice left at her vsuall place of aboade in Dublin and not to departe thence without licence of the said Court,

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The examjnacion of
Mary Carroll concerning
the murther at
Knockrath