Examination of Margrett Mattewes and Anne Bright

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June the 28th 1653.
Mrs Margrett Mattewes being deposed saith that aboute new yeares day in the first yeare of the warr Cormocke mc Dermod Roe with severall others came into the towne of the Boyle & tooke thence severall cowes belonging <A> to the deponents husband & others of the towne, whereupon John o Bruin the elder, with his son John Bruins & severall others of major Ormesby’s foote company the towne pursued them, for the rescue of the aforesaid Cowes, whereupon John o Bruin the elder was shott in the flancke & within two howers after dyed, her cause of knolledge is that when John o Bruin the yonger came home hee told her that hee heard Cormocke mc Dermod Reagh bid Donnagh o Duff maghehee shoote, & the said Donagh asked him with what, for hee had shott many shott of powder that day, whereupon the said Cormocke gave him bulletts out of his pockett, & with one of them Donnagh shott, & hitt John Bruin the elder of which hee dyed, the said John o Bruin the younger, told her alsoe that his father had not the fowleing peece in his hand which hee first carried out with him, but delivered it to his sonne, & was goeing to cormocke to try whether hee could prevaile with him by faire meanes to restore his catle & farther saith not.
<B> Anne Bright being deposed saith the same.

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