Examination of Richard Slabagh

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1876

Richard Slabagh of Macrompe gent aged about thirty seauen yeares duely sworne and Examined deposeth as followeth
That in the beginning of the Rebellion hee liued at Macrompe and that the Lord of Muskry had then raysed an Army when Certeine of the English Inhabitants that liued there (and durst not liue there any longer for feare of beeing murthered) desired a Convey of the Lord Muskry to Convey them safe to Corke amongst whom was Mrs Hussey, and her daughter Katherine and her sonne, and one John Smaleman a Naylor and a Collier and some others beeing about sixteene in Numbers; the said Lord of Muskry gaue order <A> to one Donough ô Rierdane Ensigne to his owne Company of his Castle at Blarney to take a Convey and to goe with them to Corke which hee did accordingly in pursueance of his Lords Comand And this Examinante further saith that hee went with the said Convey within a halfe a mile of Blarney where the said Ensigne sent the Convoy backe and sent for another convey from Blarney by whom they were imediatly murthered aforenamed English beeing about Sixteene in Number were imediatly murthered. And this Examinante further saith that hee never heard that the Murtherers were Executed or punished for the said fact, And further saith not.

Rich: Slabagh
This deposicion was taken before
vs the sixth of Aprill 1653
Joh. Harding
ff: Wheeller

fol. 161v

1877