Examination of Shely Roch

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
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Date: 1652-09-20
Identifier: 826064r067

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Cork
Deposition Type: Commonwealth
Nature of Deposition: Killing, Robbery
Commissioners: Francis Wheeler, Peter Wallis
Deposition Transcription:


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The Examinacion of Shely Roch of Aghallaname about 60 yeares of age taken the 20th of September 1652
<Sayeth:> That in the first yeare of the Rebellion that a young maide one deborah fford came downe from Iniskeyne Castell to this Examinantts house with a letter from Lieutenant Berry to this Examinantts husband about some Barley that he owed to the said Berry, And the next <A> morneing after, there came foure or five soldiers, (vizt) donnough mcdonnell, knougher mc daniel Cruoly, and Edmond mc donnell Cruoly all dead as she sayeth, And daniell O Soolivan who is yet aliue, but where she knowes not: And tooke away the said deboragh fford about Muskett shott from this Examinantts house & there hanged her: And this Examinatt being further demanded whither One John Smyth had some goods, whither the said deborah had some Cloaths there Answereth that there was some goods of John Smiths put in her husbands hands, but whither deborah had any cloaths or noe shee knowes not. And further sayeth not.

Shely [mark] Roch her marke
Jurat & examinant coram nobis
ff: Wheeller
Peter Wallis


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{the Examinaction of Shely}
Roch: about deborah fford
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Deponent Fullname: Shely Roch
Deponent Gender: Female
Deponent County of Residence: Cork
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: donnough mcdonnell, knougher mc daniel Cruoly, Edmond mc donnell Cruoly, daniell O Soolivan, deborah fford, John Smith
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Rebel, Rebel, Rebel, Rebel, Victim, Mentioned