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Three that recouered to come a boord this was vpon friday the third day of June last.
Vpon Saturday following the fourth of June we sett forward to sea purposeing to come to the harbour of Kinsale our surgeon the day before being murthered wherof they had then vrgent necessity; but the wind altering they were put in that saturday to a place called Kilm{c}killikosisty in the County of Kiery formerly a know{ne} place for fishinge & in the afternoone they lande{d} some men & tooke away from thence a quantity of salt, & haueing layd there at Ankor till munday followeing the 6th of June early in the morneing the said Capteine Williams this deponent lieutenant George Symons, Samuell ffinton of Corke mercer, James Mounsell of youghall butcher, John Balzer of the same yeoman, Thom{as} lyne of the same shipwright & two others went to fetch away more salt, but then & there Daniell <E> o Sullyvane alias o Sullyvane Beare with six hundred men or therabouts lay in ambush in two houses at the said Towne of KilmcKillogn & noe sooner the said Williams & the rest came ashore, but present{ly} the enemy started out of the said houses which be{ing} discouered the said Willimas endeavouring to recouer {the} boate, the enemy came vpon him & the rest pell mell with stones, the boate being out of sight of the shipps & the stones flying soe fas{t} that they could neither dischardge muskett no{r} pistoll, but at last recouered the boate, yett ha{ueing} not the power to lanch it foorth from the shore through the multitude of stones fling vpon them vntill at last they were all stoned to death

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excepteing this deponent & one James Mounsell aforesaid, but yeett both bruised and heavily wounded and <f> taken prisoners by the said O Sullyvane, but the rest of them that were murthered & stoned they stripped them & in a barbarous & most inhumane maner threwe their naked corpes vpon the shore cutting & mangleing them in a pitteous maner of not admitting them to haue Christian buryall, often times the tyde of Ebb & flowth beateing in their corpes vpon the beaches to and againe.
Vpon twesday following the 7th day of June (this deponent & the said Mounsell being the night before kepte close prisoners and a sunder) he this deponent was then brought before the said O Sulllyvane whoe then & there Impannelled a Jury of Twelue men to passe vpon the life of this deponent & being arraigned, euidence alsoe giuen against him by the the said O Sullyvane himselfe vzt that this deponent was guilty of high Treason & (as he alleadged) for robbing & burneing the kinges subiects meaneing themselues, but by gods assistance this deponent was then conveyed away out of his sight by the meanes of Sullyvane whoe knewe this deponents father the last warrs in the campe of Kinsale against Tirone and the Spaniard by whose Intercession this deponents life was saued.
This deponent further saith, that dureing his abode with the said O Sullyvane, which was for six months <G> or therabouts he heard him & other gentlemen confidently say at seuerall times that they had a lardge Comission from his Maiesty for what they did & he heard the said Daniell O Sullyvane often times say that he made noe question but the kinge was

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Of their side, & was become a Roman Catholicke, he likewise sawe & obserued dureing that time a Spanish barque out of Biscay burthen thirty Tuns to come to Beerehaven aboute Michelmas last loaden with armes and powder to the said Donnell o Sullyvane, which barque as by credible information giuen to this deponent appeared) came thither aboute the 17th of March before last with more powder and armes
<hand> This deponent was likewise credibly informed that they haue foure seuerall Counsells or como{n} meetings of their cheeftaines and gentlemen aboute the raiseing of an army to surprize & take the English garrissons in the County of Corke which was to be effected by Candlemas as they gaue out , one in Traly in the County of Kiery, one in the Cittie of lymericke another at Cashell & another at Kilkenny, the motiues that ind{uced} him to beleeue this Information to be true {is} this, ffor aboute the later end of November last this deponent perceaueing noe way otherwise for him to come away, requested the said O Sullyvane to giue him this deponent a passe to goe to the County of Roscoman to his freinds & where he was borne, which being granted this depon{ent} came to lymercike accompanyed with Two of t{he} said O Sullyvanes seruants men, whoe had str{ } chardge giuen them to see this deponent salf{ely} come thither where this examinat stayed two dayes & two nightes & then & there obserue{d} <H> seuerall meetinges of the gentlemen of the Country { }ing there in Counsell namely Garrett Barry gen{e}rall of his Maiesties the Catholicke forces for the Province o{f} Munster (for soe they comonly stile him) Patric{k}

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<I> Purcell of Croe in the County of lymericke Esquire lieutenant generall of the said forces Sir Donnell o Brien of Ballykett in the County of Clare Knight the lord of Muskry Capteine <hand> Hennesy Master of their ordinance for the said Province, the lord Baron of Castleconnell Pierce Creagh major of the said Cittie & diuers other gentlemen of the County of Clare and County of lymericke whose names this deponent doth not remember likewise he tooke notice at Clonmell that of Capteine ffennell & one White maior of the Towne (this deponent then comeing thither from lymerick) went to the Councell at Cashell from Clonmell This examinat further deposeth and saith that while he stayed at Clonmell he was credibly tould that <K> Owen Roe O Neile came to Wexford not long since out of the lowe Countryes whoe brought in greate store of armes and amunition whoe is made since generall of the forces of the Province of Vlster, & after him likewise came in to Wexford one Collonell Preston from fflanders with more armes and powder & soone after the said Prestons wife & children came in to Wexford in another shipp loaden with armes who was receaued with greate Joy and sollemnity & very soone after their landinge Sir Phelym [ ] O Neile maryed one of the said Prestons daughter to whoe the said Preston gaue as mariadge portion a thousand pounds in mony, a thousand musketts one thousand bandiluers a thousand swords a thousand Carbines a thousand paire of petronells & one thousand greate sadles This examinat likewise deposeth

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And saith that he heard it credibly reported at Clonmell aforesaid that the said Preston vnder <L> tooke the skill of takeing the Castle of Dublin by May day nexte; and therefore he was to haue from the kingdome three score thousand pounds for his paines
Terlough Kelly
Jurat coram nobis
11o January 1642
Phil: Bisse
Thomas Ellwell

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