Examination of Jordan Legge

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The Examination of Laugh Jordan Legg of Laughlin Bridge in the County of Catterlagh taken the 14th of August 1652: before vs Coll Henry Pritty and Henry Jones two of the Justices of the peace for the province of Leinster:
The examinant aged aboute fifty & foure yeares being dulye sworne & examined saith that he is an English man borne in Dorcettsheire that he hath bin in Irelandshire thirty and two yeares & all that tyme a dweller in Laughlin bridge in the County of Catterlagh & that he was there at the begining of the [ ] Rebellion that there weare many of the English in and aboute Laughlin aforesaid; gathered together at the said Laughlin aboute March 1641 to the number of sixteene as this examinant heard whoe were to be Convoyed away (as was given out) towards Ross & from thence to Duncannon; that among them there was one Rich: Lake and Samuell Serles alias Hatter (soe called from his trade being an Habberdasher:) & others whome this deponent cannott now remember that the very morneing that the said persons were sent away from the said Laughlin: he this deponent being sick in his bed the sayd Samuell Hatter and after the said Rich: lake came to the deponents bed side to bid him far{e}well sayeing they knew nott whether [ ] they should euer se{e} one another againe, that one James Boy Kervan then { } souldier in the Company of Sir Walter Bagne{ll of} Dunleckny in the County of Catterlagh { } of the said County & Comanding in Laugh{lin} { } come to the deponents howse that very morning [ there] [ ] { } said Kervan; Lake & Serles were p{ }said Kervan haueing a musque{tt} { } saying before I he came home I { } of Clothes; & that th{e} { } to Laughlin a{foresaid} { } that wee shou{ld} { } Kervan { }

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then att Laughlin & after returneing semed to be much displeased for that fact, & that he the said Dempsey deserued to be hanged for itt; but the deponent did not heare of any further prosecuteing of any for the said facts
The Deponent further sayth t hat aboute tree or foure <B> dayes after the sending away of one said English an English woeman & her Child haueing agreed with one William Dargan of Laughlin aforesaid to Carry her & her Child ouer the Riuer a little below the bridg of Laughlin the said Dargan did Cast the said woeman & Child into the water, where they were both drowned that the said Bagnell seemed to be very much offended att this fact, & made enquirey after the said Dargan; to have punished him; butt could nott then finde him; he being fled; but aboute six or seaven weekes after the said Dargan entred himself into a Company which was quartered in & aboute Laughlin; which Company was in vnder the Commaund of the said Bagnell the Examinant being demanded wherefore the said Bagnell did not then proceede against the said Dargan; he being vnder his power; answered that he knoweth not & further saith not.
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Jordan [mark] Leggs
deposed before vs August 14
1652
Hen Prittie
{He}n: Jones

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The Examination of Jordan
Legge August 14
1652
Richard Lake etc
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