Examination of Elizabeth Allen

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The Examination of Elizabeth Allen of the City of Corke taken the 7th of September 1652
<1.> This Examinant being sworne saith That about the begining of March last she together with Lieutenant Daniel Petley { } others on the high way betweene Mallow & Corke neere at Batlehill in the Barony of Fermoy no were sett vpon by five of the Enemy & by them then & there taken haveing quarter promised given them, & being promised to be caried prisoners to Rosse Castle in Kerry: And being haveing caried them about one mile & halfe farther, the said Rebells asked the said Petly where he was borne, & whose sonne he was: he answered that he was borne at Carigalyne (in the Co: of Corke) & that he was the sonne of old Petly: there upon they said his father was a rogue & did bidde him put of his clothes intending to kill he And to although notwithstanding that he chalenged the quarter given him, & offred five pounds for his ransome or a prisoner in exchange, they imedeatly stripped hem naked & then murthered him. She further saith that they also attempted to kill her this deponent, but god spared her so as they spared her life, takeing all she had & let letting her goe. She farther saith that the chiefe of the said Rebells who acted the said murther with the rest was John <A> Barry one of the Lo: of Muskerry party & of Captain Maho{} troope as he himselfe told her & that this Examinant about five weekes since did mee{t} the said Barry at Carigadruit & chalenged him of the said fact, who thereupon tooke her out of Company, & as{ked} her whether the man then slaine were her husband she answered noe: then (said he) do not you take a{ } my life for I saved youres. This Examinant farther saith <B> that she knoweth also that the sonne of a scholemaster liveing at kilcrea [ ] was one in that company & acting in the said murther, whom this examinant did also challenge for that bloody action the same time that she challenged Barry as aforesaid

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aforesaid, who acknowledged the fact in the presence of Anne Pe t ly of Corke the wife of the said Petl y of Corke; & with all named the persons that were actors ner there in, whose names this Examinant hath forgottin. And farther saith not.

Elizabeth [mark] Allen
her marke
deposed before me the day & yeare first above written
Hen: Jones