Examination of Morris Kelly

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The Examinacion of Morish Kelly of Gowran taken befor vs the day of August 1652:
The Examinante saith: that att the tyme of plundering when the Rebellion first broke out he came out of ffrance & was in Gowran <A> & when Captain Pierce Butler raysed his foot company he was made his Ensigne against his will (as he now alledgeth) and saith that 8 or 9 weeks after he was made Ensigne, the Renevouze being att Tynehinch green nere the Grage he repayred thither and ther diuers English people, vizt Erasmus Bradford, James Brunfeild, Arthur Scott with diuers others woemen & children to the number of 13[ ] persons (as he remembreth) being then prisoners brought from Gowran to Graige were deliuered to this examinant by Collonell Edmond Butler, Maior Robert Shortall, Captaine Peirce Butler and Sir Walter Butler, James Butler of Tinihinch: who were all present together; & saith that Collonell Edmond Butler then comaunding in chiefe comaunded this Examinant & gaue him orders to receiue the said English into his charge, and to convoy them to Ross, which he did & deliuered the said order to Captain James Duffe who then had a comaund of a company att of foot according to the direccions therof which said Duffe was by the said orders comaunded to convoy them to Duncanon: but what the said Duffe did therin he knoweth not but saith att the first he slighted & refused to receiue the said orders yett afterwards he took them: & saith that he left the English prisoners neer the gates of Ross, and that he retorned, yett 3 dayes afterwards he heard that they were murthered but by whom he knoweth not And further saith that he received the said prisoners bound yett notwithstanding when he was marched out of ther comaunders sight he vnbound them,
This examinant being demaunded why he did strike Alexander Bradford, & threatned that neither he nor any of his generacion should be lyving within a moneth after that he denieth that he either strooke him, or vsed any such threatning language
He further saith that after he heard that the English who were comitted to his charge, whom he safely convoyd to Ross & left ther, were murthered, he thervpon laid downe his armes & neuer bore armes after, & further saith not
Morris Kelly
Examined before vs
Hen: Jones
Jo: ffarrer

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The Examination of
Morrish Kelly taken
August 17th
1652
the protestants of Gowran etc
(38)
English sent from
the Grage by Edm: Butler
&c to Ross & shortly after
murderd