Examination of William Cary

fol. 267r

1816

And this deponent William Cary in addition to his former examinacion before sett downe, further deposeth That he this deponent was present in the late highe Court of Justice at Corke before Justice Donnellan the Lord of Broghell & other Commissioners vizt in or about <m> the month of december now Last past in the yere 1652 When & where one John Nagle whoe was an officer or Comander vnder Mr Henry Beecher of Inisherkin did viva voce depose & declare in the same Court before the said Commissioners vpon oath That Mr David Nagle his father haveing lost & been deprived of some Cattle in the begining of the warrs he the said John Nagle went into Roch his Country to seeke for them, but that he could fynd none; And that in his retourne home to his fathers howse westward he was taken prisoner by mcCartie Reoghes & his partie of souldjers hee the said mcCarty Reogh then ryding in the vann o f & being cheefe Comander of them. And that then & there he the said John Nagle was putt to his choice (but whether by the said McCarty Reogh himself or which of his partie the deponent knoweth remembreth not) whether hee would take vpp Arms & serve the said McCarty Reogh & act with his forces & on their party or be hanged (as other English men had been) men were to

fol. 267v

1817

<N> the best of this deponents now remembrance, But that the said John Nagle (to save his Liffe) did vnwillingly agree to serve amongst them, for some tyme. And that dureing in the time of such his staying with them he sawe fu three or fowre Englishmen hanged by the said McCarty Reoghs forcs in the presence of him the said McCarty Reogh in or ne a re the parrish of kinmeath in the Barony of Carbery He then further deposeing and saying that he could remember the same the better of by the good taken for that one of them that was soe hanged was a yong English man in a redd Cassock whom they said was a spy & whom they hanged so Low that his tooes toucht the ground. And that then his executioners fynding some biskett & cheese in his pockett tooke peecs thereof & cramd them in his mowth when he was dead, calling him English Churle & asking him if then he would eate any biskett & cheese or to that effect to the best of this deponents remembrance. And further saith that he this deponent very well knew him the said John Nagle & still thought him to bee an honest man & also very well knew him to be an honest & stout souldier on the English partie both before & after the time that he escaped & gott away from the Rebells, & beleeves verely that he deposed nothing but what was true And the def deponent too well knoweth that the said John Nagle is since drowned

William Cary
Jur 12o Augusti 1653
(before) before us
Tho: Waring
John Baker

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