Examination of Daniell Fulham

fol. 277r

1563 1783

Daniell ffulham of ffinbarrys parrish within the suburbs of the suburbs of the Cittie of Corke an English protestant, aged 75 yeres or therabouts sworne & examined deposeth & saith That within a little time after that William Woods late of kilhominy in the County of Cork yeoman & William Tute his sonn in lawe were murthered, he this deponent was present at one Danyell Leries <A> howse in the Bantrie in the said County of Corke: When an Irish man (whose name he remembreth not) whoe was a souldier vnder the Command of Capten Rearden: one of the Cheefe Comands vnder the Donogh Lord Viscount Muskery came, & in the presence of the said Danyell Lery & this deponent bragged & boasted how his said Capten Rearden & he, with other souldjers of vnder the Comand of the said Lord of Muskery had hanged to death them the said William Woods Cooke & William Tute: Wherevpon the said Daniell Lerie (being a man whoe had Lived many yeres in England & favoured the English) said vnto the said souldier Thou shalt never bragg more of the murthering of any more English men And forthwith the said Daniell Lerie tooke & surpris ed the apprehended the same bragging souldier & caused him for that mu rther to be hanged vpp in an El der tree near his howse told him that he should be hanged himself for the fact wherevnto that souldier answered will you hange mee when my Captaine (Meaneing the said Capten Rearden) hath beene before the Lord of Muskery for the fact & was by his Lordship Lett goe & discharged Notwithstanding which the said Daniell Lery then cawsed that Souldier to be hanged to death in an Elder tree: The deponent further saith that before he this deponent came to the Bantrie: hee was for two yeres together a neer neighbour to the said William Woods <B> & William Tute he whilest they were Liveing And knoweth that they had both protections from the said Lord of Muskery for saftie of themselves & their goods: becawse they were English men yet notwithstanding they were first robbed, & then they were Murthered by the said Captain Rearden, the other souldier that was hanged, & other souldiers vnder the Comand of the said Lord of Muskery as aforesaid: And this deponent very welknoweth those Murtherers to be the souldiers of the said Lord of Muskery, and of his owne Army & sawe him mustered amongst them he the said Capten Rearden being one cheefly trusted comanded & imployed by the said Lord of Muskery: And saith that the Lord of Muskery at <C> the first seemed to be displeased at the hanging of the said woodes & Tute: yet he neither tried punished nor brought

fol. 277v

1784

<D> restrained any the offenders for the same that euer he could heare of But they all have hitherto gone free saveing the bragging souldier so hanged as aforesaid by the said Donyell Lerie soe as this deponent is confident that the said Lord of Muskerie is guilty of the blood & death of the said wood & Tute it being in the power of his Lordship to have hanged the said Capten Rearden & the rest of the Murtherers (if so he had pleased) for the same.

the mark of the [mark] said Daniell ffulham
Deposed the viijth day of
August 653
before us
Isay Thomas
Tho: Waring
Joh: Harding

Daneill ffulham of ffinbaries
County of the Citty of Cork
for the murther of William Woods &c.
A 3
A 3