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The examinacion of Terence Melaghlyn of Cranagh in the County of Roscomon gent aged thirty two yeares or thereabouts taken the xxvth day of July 1653 before vs Colonell Thomas Herbert and Thoma Robert Harding Esquire two of the Committee appoynted by the High Court of Justice sitting at Dublin to take examinacions of Massacres and Murthers Committed in the Countyes of Meath and Westmeath &c.
Whoe being duely sworn and examined to so much as concerneth others deposeth and sayth That he knewe <A> Edmund Dalton of Lalestowne in the County of Westmeath Esquire, He sayth that at the tyme when the Parly was betweene the Lo: of Ranellagh and Sir James Dillon knight concerning a Cessacion of Armes, the Examinant heard that the sayd Edmund Dalton was apprehended by Oliver Magawly and his brother Lawrence Magawley, neere Cregan, But whether or noe he were brought prisoner thither, he knoweth not, He sayth further that the next day after the sayd Edmunds apprehension (being the sabbath day), The examinant heard a Hue and cry at Ballynary And vpon enquiry what the matter was, he was told that the sayd Edmund Dalton was hanged by the sayd Magawlyes, and sayth further, that about half a yeare after being in company with the sayd Oliver Magawly in the fields of Ballynary bemoaning the death of the sayd Edmund Dalton, the sayd <B> Oliver confest that he was one of those that Murthered the sayd Dalton, because (as the sayd Magawly sayd) that the sayd Edmund Dalton had killed the sayd Magawlies father. Being demaunded whether or noe the examinant was then in Armes, sayth he was not But that about two yeares after he was for a quarter of a yeare an Ensigne to Arthure Dillons company The sayd Examinant further sayth that Art Melaghlyn the examinants
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examinants brother was at the tyme that the sayd Dalton was Murthered a Capten of ffoot in Sir James Dillons Regiment, But whither the sayd Oliver Magawly or the sayd Art Melaghlin or either of them were Governors of Cregan, he knoweth not And this examinant further sayth not
Terenc Mellaghlin
Tho Herbert
Robert Harding

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The examinacion of Terence
Melaghlyn agaynst
Oliver Magawly and
Lawrence Magawly concerning
the Murther of Edmund
Dalton Esquire