Examination of Edward Nugent

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The examinacion of Edward Nugent of Clowshamboe in the County of Kildare Gent aged thirty fowre yeares or thereabouts taken the xxjth of december 1653 before vs Collonell william Edwards and Thomas Richardson esquire Members of the high Court of Justice appointed for takeing examjnacions concerning murthers and massacres &c.
Who beeing duely sworne and examjned deposeth and saith That about two yeares of the last harvest Allhollantyde the examjnant was <A> tould by some of the Inhabitants of the Calloe that Marcus Cruise now prisoner in Dublin and three of his brethren [ ] vizt Richard Cruise Luke Cruise and [ ] the name of the other brother hee knoweth not, were in the [ ] Calloe demaunding contribucion due by the Inhabitants there to the said Marcus Cruise and his soldiers for theire entertainement as soldiers in the fforte of Ballileige, amongst which Inhabitants (as the examjnant was tould) contribucion was demaunded by the said Marcus Cruise or one of his brethren, of Hugh mc Brian ffarrall then an Inhabitant in the Calloe aforesaid, but the said Hugh mc Brian ffarrall haueing not then the said contribucion ready to pay the said Marcus Cruise or one of his brethen would haue brought the said Hugh mc Brian ffarrall prisoner

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prisoner to the fforte of Ballileige, but hee standing vppon his guard with a short pike in <B> his hand and refuseing to goe along with the said Marcus Cruise and or his brethren, the younger brother of the said Marcus Cruise (whose Christen name the examjnant knoweth not) shott at the said Hugh mc Brian ffarrall with a pistoll then in his hand of which shott the said Hugh mc Brian ffarrall (as the examjnant was tould) died within a day or two after, And further saith not,
Edw. Nugent
Taken before vs the
day and yeare aforesaid
Will Edwards
Tho: Richardson