Examination of William Carey

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1804

<symbol> William Carey of Bandonbridge in the county of Corke gent an English protestant aged about 60 yeres sworne & examined deposeth & saith That about the second day of ffebruary in the yere 1641 & for 3 or 4r yeres before one Manasses Phipps <A> the sonn of John Phipps & of Elizabeth wife of the said John whoe was this deponents wifes sister Lived with him this Deponent at Bandon bridge aforesaid. And being but young that is say about fifteene yeres of age yet carefull of the safety of his father & mother, went from this deponents said howse at Bandon to the howse of his said father which which was neare Carrickadroghid within the Barony of Muskery on purpose & with direction from him this deponent & his wife that he should perswade the said Phipps & his wife to leave & remove from their habitation & that Country, which was in a tumult, & come to Bandon; which young yowth comeing to his said fathers howse accordingly & solicteing them his parents to the purpose aforesaid: he prevailed with his mother to come from thence: yet not to Bandon for feare <B> of the danger of the way becawse mcCarty Reogh and his forcs were in Rebellion & lay vp & downe the Country betwixt especially betwixt Carrickadroghid & Bandon, howbeit the said Phips his wife stayd not above three or 4r dayes at kil ligroghan Carickadroghid aforesaid wh i ther she went but shee & her said sonn retourned to her husbands howse to draw him from thence, Whoe as

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as this deponent hath credibly heard by an Irish woman that kept one of their children, & by divers others of the Irish (whose report he beleeveth) would have come away from amongst those outragious people, but that the Lord of Muskerie <C> stayd him there to make piks & gun stocks for him & the other Rebells: & his wife & sonn with fowre of his children more stayd with him there for a month moneth or thereabouts: And that then they were the said John Phipps & his wife & the said Manesses their sonn were sent away with a Convoy by the Lord of Muskerry westwardly towards the howse of one Dermott Ô Mahan alias Muskery, a frende of this deponent, whither it seems they desired to be sent, And that before they came thither <D> those that convoyed them hanged to death then the said John Phipps Margrett & Elizabeth his wife & Mansses their sonne And the said Manasses the sonn 3 or 4 dayes after going to inquire of them the very same persons m ett with him and hanged hime alsoe And although this deponent sawe not the same with his owne eys yet he is satisfied in his conscience of the truth thereof, it being still confirmed by the generall report of the Countrey, The deponent with his wife & frends looseing them all three at that tyme & not dareing to goe & see whether they were buried or noe: And further saith that the Irish woman aforesaid whoe kept one of their children <Shee is not able to travelle> & Lyves about two myles off the place where shee says they were putt to death, protested & often averred to him this deponent that the parties that hanged them <E> were Phynnen mc Teige oge, & Donnell mcTeige oge, & that of Gortonhoughtie near Togher Castle in Glawuerrin in Carbery gentlemen & were (as shee thought) of the sirname of the ô Leries & some

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<hand> others in their company, which shee could not name, And this deponent further saith That he hath credibly heard by divers persons vnto whom he gives creditt that one William Mewden, & one Ellenor now the wife of Robert Stringer <f> of the Citty of Cork Joyner were surprised & taken prisoners nere kilbrittaine Castle the Cheefe howse of mcCharty Reoghe, & [ ] by some of the souldiers of the said mcCarty Reogh & that they were by them carried to the said mcCarty Reogh att kilbrittaine aforesaid whoe with And that within a little tyme after the said Mewden & Ellenor were both carried to a gallowes which the said mcCarty had cawsed to be erected in the sight & within two musket shott of his said howse & that there the said Mewden were was by the said McCartie Reaghs souldiers hanged to death And that the mother <G> of the said McCarthy Reagh looking through a window in the said howse & seeing the said Mewden was hanged sent her preist to save & fetch away the said Elenor to her, which was done accordingly: which could not (as this deponent is verely perswaded in his Conscience) have been done without the Comand & direction of him the said McCharty Reogh, whoe not onely for seuerall yeres before, the Rebellion but during the same was very cruell to the English, he the said McCarty haveing cawsed to be erected severall gallows whereon to hang the English aswell at kilbrittaine aforesaid, as at, Eniskeane, Dundaniell, Rosse, & a place in the west which he thincks is called Gortnecloghe, All which gallowes soe built he this deponent sawe with his owne eyes; And it was also Comonly reported in the Countrie about Bandon aforesaid <H> That the Lord of Muskeries Ladie was very cruell against th her English neighbours & in deed more cruell

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<I> then her husband, And he also often heard that when about seventeen of the Englishe were sent by the Lord of Muskery with a Convoy from Glaneroghe & Macroome to wards Cork that the said Lady of Muskery instigated her husbands souldiers not to suffer them to passe f rom Blarney or the Lord of Muskrys howse soe as those souldjers fell vpon & killd them near Blarney aforesaid, But the names of the said Rebells whoe soe killed them he knoweth not, And this deponent further saith That after that the said Lord of Muskery had layd downe his Armes that is is to say <K> about a yere since he this deponent being impowred to apprehend all murtherers or cruelle persons against the English, & to bring them before a Magistrate he this deponent apprehended at the fayre at Eniskeane one Teig ô Cullane whoe had been serjeant to fflorence mcCarty to fflorence mcCarty brother to the said McCarty Reagh, & brought him before Lieutenant Colonell ffrancis Wheeller governour of Bandon: when & where this deponent charged the said Teige ô Cullane with threatening of him this deponent formerly, to destroy him or any of his children or goods & the said Governor interrogateing him concerning him the same, hee the said Teige ô Cullane therevpon confessed that he had a warrant to that purpose <L> both from the said McCarty Reagh, & also to this deponents now best remembrance from the said fflorence mcCarty: And then & there hee the said Teige o Cullane produced and shewed such his warrant in writing before the said Governor [ ] which was to burne & distroy this deponent & Thomas Harris his brother in Lawe or their or either of their Children which warrant this deponent sawe with his owne

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owne eyes, & read the same of alsoe, & thincks the said Governor tooke a Copie thereof

William Cary
Jur 12o Augusti 1652
coram
Tho: Waring
Joh: Harding
John Baker