Deposition of Valentine Gordan

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<A> Valentine Gordan late of the Bantry in the Baronry of Beare & Bantry, and County of Corke spinster a Scottish Protestant, duly sworne & examined before vs by vertue etc: deposeth & sayth that about whitsontide thirteene weeks before Kilbritton Castle was tak’n, the said deponent was tak’n by mc Carty Reah, & his company <then she had tak’n from her 2 li. in mony and a ring worth 40 shillings> to the number of fourscore nere Clonikilty vpon the way to Kinsale, and from thence the deponent was stript and carryed prisoner to Kilbritton Castle and there was kept in a dungeon, hauing nothing to cloath her but her smock during that season Mc Carty came in and sa u’ d her life: as for the man that was tak’n with her calld one calld Banks a taylour of the bantry <who was brought by and lift vp to the gallows by the neke [brock] and was stript and had 7 li. tak’n from him:> he was hangd by mc Cartyes ffollowers the same day: during which time of her imprisonment <by [ ] [ ] > these persons divers whereof were Irish Protestants Protestants were hang’d at Kilbritton by Mc Carty & his ffollowers : whereof eight were men, but their names except one Gowse Gardner she knoweth not, and one woman calld Margaret a Spinster & a Scottish woman who was first halfe hang’d and then cutt downe and cruelly trodd vpon by two horses, that were made to treade in and out vpon her, vntill her bowells gusht out and so dyed this was causd to be don by Mc Cartyes Corporall in the absence of him Mc Carty, but as soone as he came home, causd the said Corporall to be hangd for his labour. she also sayth that while she was there, a woman vnknowne to the deponent was tak’n and brought to Kilbritton and had her left breast, and her nose cutt off and so lett go agen: during her durance she heard McCarty Reah say that the King was on his side and therefore he did not care for all the English besids, but as for the Scotts he was afrayd of them, for they had no mercy in their hands. and that he did hope to haue all Ireland at his commaund and that he would make the English and the Scotts fly into other countryes, the Lord of Muskry also <B> said the same. and further she cannot depose
she also sayth that as she was running away once from Kilbritton towards Kinsale, she was tak’n by the Lord Courses Brother, and his tenants to the number of fiue which Lord Courses Brother tooke hold off & causd his man to search her hayre for letters and withall and burnt her bibles
Valentine [mark} Gordans marke
Jurat coram nob: 21 Oct:
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Phil: Bisse
Ro: Southwell

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Valentine Gordan’s
Exam:
Proofs against mc Carty Reogh &
The Lord of Muskery
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