Examination of Simon Salle

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The Examination of Mr Simond Salle of Cashell in the towne County of Tipperary taken the 24th of August 1652
This Examinant Sworne & Examind saith he is aged forty yeares or theyr abouts, & that he was att Cashell when the towne was Plundr in the month of J Desember January 1641 by the Irisish who entred the Citty the 31th <A> one & thirteth of Desember in the yeare 1641 the Chefe of which party of the Irish were vidlit phillip ô Dwyer of DunDrom Chefe in Command Theoballd Butler of Killoskihan and his Brother Richard, Tege meagher sonn and heire to O Meagher, Thomas Pursill Sonn brother to the barron Luoghma Donagh o Dwyer brother to Phillip of Dundrum, & Phillip Magrath Sonn to brien Magrath of blean in ormond, and the day of theyr entring the town they fell a plundring & striping the English & protistants & Early the next morning began the Murther of many of them of whom tenn [ ] men & a woman with Chilld So Murthered were buried by this Examinant and by Mr John Hacket now Maior & Edward Sall the the then maior who sent Six winding sheatts for burying som of the sad persons, this Examinant further saith that his vnkell <Phillip mc Thomas ô Duyer> Phillip mc Thomas o Dwyer of Morton alias <B> balinemoone Killed francis Banister, William mc Phillip of Ardmaille Tailor Killed thomas Sadler & John Linsy & further saith,

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<C> that Phillip mc Shean of Clonollty his Sonns vid <Hugh mc Shane Ryan> Thomas Ro Ryon & Hugh mc Shane Ryon of Clonoullty aforesayd then Killed Richard Lay ne Lane & william Meryfelld alias Kabkeroge & his wife great with Child & Mr Carr & Mr Beene Phillip Magrath of bleane aforesaid Killd the said beenes taptster & the said tylers wife great with Child, & william James Roch of ballygrifin Killed Some of thes before ment and particularly Partikculerly one Robert Andersonn a scochman, this Examinant further saith that for discouering the tenth of the aforsaid relation he the next day after the said Murther vid: on the second of Janvary 1641 whill the particelers were fresh in memory did in his Chamber att Cashell aforesaid Priuatley advise & Confer with sertaine certaine of his frinds in=habitants of Cashell by whos [advice] relation & in whos preasence this Examinant did sett downe in wrighting writeing what the said persons relatted to the Examinant, desiring them to giue him the names of the persons then so Murthered & Murthering as is more att large exprest in this Examination & in the paiper anexed, the names of which persons so informing him are by the Examinent <D> sett forth in the paiper anext, this Examinant further saith that Alexander Boyton tould him this Examinent that it was he that invited Phillip ô Dwyer the said Coll of Dundrom by his letters to attempt Cashell as aforesaid & that he had before that time invited the Barron of Luoghma for the Like Desine, & that he the said boyton had Laders redy (for them) in his orchard & that it was he that appoynted where to Cut the gatte whereby the Enemy got entrance into the Citty: and further saith that the townsmen of Cashell to vindicatte the Corporation from

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the aspertion of the Murthers & Roberys aforesayd, did Constitut and appoynt William <E> Yong one of the burgars burgesses of Cashell as theyr agient in the yeare 1646 or theyrabouts to mon Soliccett the then Justices of the assises sitting att Clonmull to inquire after by presentment of a grand Jury and other wayes the acters in the Murtherers and Roberys aforesayd and to proseed against them according to Justice, but that nothing was theyrin done efected efecktually by r att that time allthough giuen in Charge to the grand Jury by reson (as the Examinant hath hard and beeleueth) of the power of the personns theyrin Conserned but now hoopeth & desirith that the same may be taken into Considreeration & accordingly prosequuted and further saith not, that the sonnes of the said Alexander Boyton vid: Patrick & Peirce, be the one being a Capt and the other a Leftenant of a foot Company maintained by the town for a time for theyr Defence notwithstanding Joyned with the Enymy against the said Citty after the towne was surprized by the Irish and further saith not.
Simon: Salle
Deposed before vs the
day & yeare first aboue
written
Hen: Jones
Jo: Booker.

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The Examination of
Mr Simond Salle,
August the 24th 1652

Cashell murther