Examination of John Bratten

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The examinacion of John Bratten of Deriaghy in the County of Antrim Piper aged fourty yeares taken <symbol> upon oath 28 ffeb: 1652
Who saith, that at the begining of the Rebellion this examinant being an Inhabitant on in Magherecon in the County of Ardmagh, mr Phill: <A> O Quin (who liued in the same towne), & held land vnder mrs Rolston there, raised a company of Irish, & came him=self to this examinants house, & forced him to take on as a piper to his Company, & promised him to saue his life, & the said Phill: took vp the said mrs Rolstons house & goods, & stayed there about a month, & at the marching away of the Company from Magherecon, there were foure men murdered neere the said Phill: his house by the Loughside there, by his said Company vizt John Deane Inkeeper, James Deane (his brother) George Hey, & James Carr (Baily to mr John Hamilton) & being demanded who killed them, saith he was not present, but <{Ne}ille roe O Neille> heard one Neille Roe o Neille, & others of the Company did it, & that he saw the said Phill: O Quin very angry with the said Neille about it, & caused them to be buryed, & this examinant helped to doe it, & saith euery of the said Corpes had many wounds on them; And after the said Phill: O Quin marched from Magherecon by orders from Sir Phill: O Neille, who in this examinants heareing gaue order to the said Phill: O Quin to burne mrs Rolstons house, & the towne, & to quarter at Legacarry, where they stayed about a month or six weekes and shortly after came back to Loughgall, & being demanded what people he saw murdered in that time, saith that he saw seuerall dead Corpes in the woods & Boggs, but <B> knowes not who kild them, but saith that Rob: Corshancke of Legacarry, & Edw: Dauis, Maltman, were Kild neere Kilmore Church by the said Phill: O Quins men & other Irishfol 181v
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soldiers then at Mass in the said Church, & saith that Rob: Corsanke (seeing Edw: Dauis a killing) ran away, & presently he saw the said Phill: O Quin & seuerall others of his <C> soldiers & other Companies gett on horsebacke, & gallop after the said Corshanke & rid after him about halfe a mile, & then the <Phill O Quin Donell Roberts> said Phill: O Quin & Donell Roberts one of his soldiers ouertaking him, the said Corshanke was kild amongst them, but which of them gaue him his death wound he knowes not, being farr of but he saw the said Phill: ô Quins & the said Roberts swords out, & many more strikeing at him, & after he this examinant saw his Corpes mangled & Cutt in seuerall peeces with the greatest cruelty that euer he saw, & saith that he was forced to stay with the said Phill: O Quin till about May after when the Newry was taken, & that the Irish were in feare, & soe he gott opertunity to scape into the Newry, where he was intertained by the Lord Sincler & serued after in the Scotts Army &c
John [mark] Brattens mark
Jur Geo Rawdon
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