Examination of John Goll

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(directly following the examination of Martha Lone)
March the 7th 1653.
Leivetenant John Goll of Balleigh in the County of Corke gentleman aged thirty nyne yeares or thereabouts being duely sworne and examined
<1.> To the first Interr hee sayth that Captaine Roberte Clarke did in or about the yeare 1641 bring into from ffrance into the Port or Haven of Galway a Shippe or vessell (whereof hee was master for that voyadge) laden with Salt, Gun= <A> powder and other Amunicion and Armes, his cause of knowledge is that hee saw the said shippe, and was himselfe then living in Galway, and was bedfellow to the said Captaine a long tyme after, And further sayth that hee doth not remember who were the merchants or ffactors for the said shipps lading, nor to what intent the said Armes and Amunicion were brought, but beleiveth they were brought over to be made vse of against the English, as presently, after appeared, for within two or three dayes after the said shippe was surprised the towne gates were shutt, by order of the Maior & Councell of the Towne, (as the Examinant then heard) and Ordinance planted against the ffort by the townesmen of Galway and

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noe English were suffered afterwards to goe in or out An of the towne from that tyme forth, vntill a Cessacion was made betweene the Towne and ffort (being about a moneth or six weeks after) his cause of knowledge is that hee was all the tyme aforesaid in the said towne and ffort, and saw and heard what hee hath deposed
<2.> To the seacond Inter the said Examinant sayth that hee doth well remember that the said Captaine Clerke was committed by the Maior and Assembly at Galway, And further sayth that by the mediacion & meanes of the Earle of Clanriccard the said Armes and amunicion were warehowsed and seuerall of the Aldermen had keys thereof but further to the said Inter hee cannot depose any thing materiall.
<3.> To the third Interr hee cannot materially depose.
<4> To the fourth Interr the said Examinant sayth that hee hath heard (from one Mary Bowler his servant maid) that one loughlin <B> roe, a Boatman of Galway was one of them that did surprise the said shippe, and that shee hath heard the said loughlin boast that hee had killed foure of the said Shipps Company with his owne hand, And further sayth that hee was alsoe told by one Thomas linch fitz Christopher of Galway merchant, (in the afternoone of the same day the shippe was surprised) that the Maior and Aldermen and Councell of the said Town of Galway were then all mett at the Tholsell, and that they had made the surprising of the said Shippe & murthering the people aboard their owne act, and that none of those that had committed it shold be questioned for it, whereas it was the same day in the aforenoone given out that it was the Act of Murrogh ne mart ô fflaherty and his Company, And

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further sayth that hee this Examinant saw the Maior and Aldermen comming from the Tholsell the same day afternoone, but doth not remember whether in particuler Patricke darcy and Richard Martin were there or noe, <C> but verily beleiveth they were, for that all the cheife of the Towne of Galway were there saue onely Sir Richard Blake, as the Examinant then heard to his best remembrance, And farther to the said Inter hee cannot depose,
<5.> To the fifthe Inter hee sayth that hee doth know that the ô fflahertyes came into the towne of Galway after the surprisall of the said Shippe, and beleiveth it was by the procurement of the magistrates of the towne, for that otherwise they cold not haue come in, And further sayth that the said fflahertyes murthered one ffox and his wife, and a Seaman being alsoe an Englishman, that was in their house, and also a sonne of one mr <D> ffishers of Tuam, and a widow gentlewoman (as hee heard by generall Report,) And sayth that one william oge Martin brought ten or more of the said ô fflahertyes into this Examinants owne house in Galway, and plundered it, And sayth that it was commonly spoken in Galway that the said ô fflahertyes of Irconnaght were brought into the towne purposely to murther all the English, and hee beleiveth they had murthered them all accordingly had not some preists hindered them, by goeing out in their vestments with tapers and a Crucerfix Crucifix carryed before them, comanding the said murtherers to surcease, and where some goods had bin plundered they commanded restitucion to bee made, as the Examinant being then in the ffort of Galway was credibly informed, And farther to the

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said Inter hee cannot depose,
<6.> To the sixth Inter hee sayth that hee hath credibly heard that there were six persons at the comitting of <D> the murther in Clerk shippe, whereof the said loughlin roe was one, and one John Blake a merchant of Galway was another, but the names of any more of them hee doth not now remember, nor can but sayth that hee saw loughlin roe in Galway the last yeare, and beleiveth that hee and the said John Blake wer are both living in Galway to this day And further to the said Inter hee cannot depose.
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