Examination of Jeffrey Comin
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The Examinacion of Jeffrey Comin of Kelles Towne in the County of Catherlagh yooman taken at Kilkenny the sixteenth of October 1652
This Examinant aged Three score yeeres or thereabouts being duely sworne saith That he lived with Major ThomasThat about the begining of the Rebellion he went to Clogh Grenan in the County of Catherlagh to visit Captaine Thomas H ermons his brother then there That the house of Clogh Grenan was then belonging to Sir Arthur Loftus who was at that time in Dublin leaving there his steward Robert ffreind and seruants in all about Twenty fowre for keeping the house among whom was Isaac Woolley and his wife and a young man seruant to the said Isaac whose name was Nicholas
<A> That about the begining of Beare harvest 1642 the examinant going betweene Catherlagh and Cloghgrenan was taken prisoner and carryed to Laughlin by som{e} of the souldiers there vnder the Comand {of} Col Walter Bagnall who was then in Laug{hlin} That about foure dayes after the Ex{aminant} being so made prisoner the said {Nicholas}
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was taken hard by Cloghgrenan Cutting of Grasse for their horses, by some of the souldiers of Laughlin, whither he was brough{t} prisoner, and the said Nicholas was after hanged at Laughlin, This Examinantes cause of knowledge is that he was the same time carryed out together with the said Nicholas to be also hanged and that he was present when the said Nicholas was hanged, And that the said Col Wal he this Examinant was spared because he was old & not like to doe them any hurt , And further saith That the <B> said Bagnall was in the Castle of Laughlin when the said Nicholas was so Executed. Being demanded whether the said Nicholas & the Examinant were Examined or sentenced before any officer or martiall Court before their carrying forth to Execucion. he saith the{y} were not, and his cause of knowledge is for that all the time of the said Nicholas was in prison he was locked together with this Examinant in one payre of bolts. And further saith not
The marke of Jeffrey [mark] Comin
Deposed before vs the day
and yeere first aboue written
Hen: Jones
Tho Herbert
{Th}o: Wilson
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{16 octob 1652}
The Examinacon of Jeffrey
Comin concerningNicholas Pue against
Walter Bagnall
for murther of
Nich. Pue
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