Examination of Simon Hasleton

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
[http://1641.tcd.ie/deposition.php?depID?=836215r111] accessed Monday 25th of September 2017 11:51 AM

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Date: 1653-05-03
Identifier: 836215r111

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Armagh
Deposition Type: Commonwealth
Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Multiple Killing
Commissioners: George Rawdon
Deposition Transcription:


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The examinacion of Simon Hasleton of Carranbane in Kilwarlin in Com: Downe aged eight & twenty or thereabouts taken at Lisnegaruy 3 May 1653
Who saith that he liued in Charlemount at the begining of the Rebellion & then was workeing in a Tan house there & heareing a great cry came out & saw Edm: mc <A> Quoid Brian mc Quoid & William mc Gneise & another man whome this examinant knowes not wer carieing Robert Bickerdike & his man wife vnto the black water close adioyning vnto the Tanhouse where they said pers o were drowned by them. And this examinant further saith that he being compelled afterwards to sta serue with the Irish at Charlemount I he was standing as a Sentinell at the towne end of Charlemount where he saw the said Edm: & Brian mc Quoid lead forth of out of the towne Tho: Dauis & Mary his wife vnto a ditch in which they putt them & there stabbed them both. And further saith not.
Symon [mark] Hasiltons
marke
Jur Geo Rawdon

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Simon Hasletons examinacion
versus
Brian mc Quaid
Edm: mc Quaid
Brian mc Gneise

Deponent Fullname: Simon Hasleton
Deponent Gender: Male
Deponent Occupation: Tanner
Deponent County of Residence: Down
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: Edm: mc Quoid, Brian mc Quoid, William mc Gneise, Robert Bickerdike, Tho: Dauis, Mary *
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Rebel, Rebel, Rebel, Victim, Victim, Victim