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The examinacion of Joice Kinde of Lisnegaruy Singlewoman aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts taken the 10th of ffeb: 1652
Who saith shee was liueing with her ffather in Loughgall in the County of Ardmagh shortly after the Rebellion when the Irish vnder Sir Phill: O Neille were beaten at Lisnegaruy, & in their returne from thence the said Sir Phelomy caused the best houses of the said towne of Loughgall to be burnt wherevpon <A> this examinants ffather went from thence to liue in a house then belonging to him, then vnburnt being about halfe a mile from Loughgall, but the said Sir Phill: & his men rideing as by it, within less then an <3> houre after they came into it, this examinant heard the said Sir Phill: comand his said seruant to fire it for that that house would hold three hundred men, wherevpon his said seruant alighted & with his sword drawne came in & searched about for Straw ot fflax to sett it on fire, & finding none, went out to Sir Phill: & told him that he could find nothing to fire it with, but Sir Phill: sent him in againe to look for fire, & bid him put it into the Thatch, but the man went out againe & said he saw nothing but some vnthreshed weat being (as this examinant conceiues) not willing to fire the house but Sir Phill: bade him presently fire the said wheat, which he said, was the best way to <B> burne the house, soe all the people ran out but one man (whose name she remembers not) but belieues her ffather Thomas Kinde, who liues at Ballinderry, & Mr Edward Grant now in Carrickfergus, knew him well they being both then present, And she further saith that the said Sir Phill: stood at the foregate & his seruant at the backdoore & Sir Phill: inquired of his said seruant if any men were in the said house who answered he saw none vpon which inquiry the said man who was burnt in the Ouen, had crept into it for feare of being kild by Sir Phill: & his man as this examinant beleeues, &

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was there burnt for that he could not gett out, the said Sir Phill: & his men staying at the said doores till the Roof of the said house fell downe; And being demanded if <C> she can depose of any other murders comitted by the said Sir Phill: or by his comand saith she hath heard of diuers & particularly that he caused Mr ffullerton their Minister of Loughgall to be murdered two miles from Loughgall, which she belieues the said Mr Fullertons daughters now liueing in Dublin can speake into particularly, if they be examined And this Deponent further saith not.
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Joice [mark] Kinde
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Taken before vs 10o:
ffebr 1652

Tho: Coote
Geo: Rawson

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Joyce Kyndes examinacion
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