Examinacion of Martin Nangle

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The examinacion of Martin Nangle of the Navan in the Countie of Meath gentleman aged thirty three yeares or thereabouts taken the ixth day of November 1652 before Sir Gerrard Lowther knight Sir Edward Bolton knight and Thomas Dongan Esquire Comissioners for administracion of Justice Oyer and Terminer and Gaole delivery &c. in and throughout the Province of Leynster except the Counties of Kilkenny & Wexford
Whoe being duely sworne and examined deposeth and sayeth that about Christmass hollydayes next after the breaking forth of the Rebellion he came from Rathmore in the sayd Countie vnto the Towne of the <A> Navan aforesayd to see his ffather whoe then Lived there, and at that tyme comming also to the howse of Robert Muchan, his this examinants ffosterfather, he found there Wynifred Langford daughter to Richard Langford whoe as this examinant heard was before that tyme lately murdred but by whom this examinant knoweth not, And fynding the sayd Wynyfred in very poore Condicion, he took pitty on her, and at his sayd ffosterfathe{rs} and her owne intreatie, he went with m e her to Patrick Begg of the Navan aforesayd merchant, whoe, (as the sayd Wynifred informed him) had her fathers goods and some part of her owne goods; and very earnestly intreated the sayd Begg to give her some releefe out of her fathers sayd goodes for the present which the sayd Begg refused to doe, alleaging, that he had none of her fathers goods, nor of hirs, yet vpon the examinants earnest intreaty, he did at last, deliver vnto her <B> one ould Pettycote and Wastcote of her owne, which is all this examinant could gett from him for the sayd Wynifred, And being demaunded whether, at that tyme, he called her a Protestant Bastard and that if she would not leave trubling of him, he would have her head cutt of as he had her fathers head cutt of, he sayth that he doth not remember that he spoke any such words vnto her at that tyme And this examinant doth not further depose
Martin Nangle
Gerrard Lowther
Edw: Bolton
Tho: Dongan

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The examinacion of Anthony Martin Nangle of the Navan against Patrick Begg for the murder of Richard Langford
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