Deposition of Thomas Trevor

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The examinacion of Lieutenant Tho: Treuor of Morne in Com: Downe aged fourty yeares or thereabouts taken 12 May 1653
Who being duely sworne saith that he with his ffather Lieutenant Hugh Treuor Liued in Lisnekead in the said County of Downe at the begining of the Rebellion & about three dayes after his said ffather was taken out of his house by one Art Maginis <A> Edm: mc Brin Denis mc ffullegan & others whose name he can not remember being their followers & from thence brought him prisoner to the Newry as they alleuged by orders from Sir Con Maginis then Gouernor thereof & there he taried vntill the latter end of December at the end of which time he was brought out from thence & carried to Carlingford & from thence to Lecale where they were all to this examinants father with others [&c] were to be exchanged for seuerall prisoners of the Irish party then in restraint in Lecale aforesaid but at their being brought thither Edm: oge mc Hugh mc Phill: Maginis Hugh <B symbol> Magin Con Maginis mc Art Groome Magennis with others whose names he knowes not in whose Custody the said Lieutenant Treuor with the rest (vizt Charles Haughton Mr Touch minister of Newry John Weston Margett Treuor mother to this examinant & seuerall others to about the number of twenty) were heareing that the said prisoners belonging to the Irish party were hanged by the English in Lecale aforesaid they brought were bringing the said Lieutenant Treuor with the rest back againe wherevpon, in their way the said Edm: oge mc Hugh mc Phill: <C> Maginins passing through the woods as this examinant hath heard was lifting vp his hand to euery tree demanding of the rest whether it was high enough or not which this examinant doth belieue that question was propounded in regard that Lieutenant Treuor this examinants father was Prouost Marshall before the Rebellion & had hanged the said Edm: oge mc Hugh mc Phill Magennis his brother & Hugh Magin, answered, that he would

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haue his owne troute, vpon which he did fall vpon the said John Weston & was slashing vpon him with his sword vntill he broke it & afterward gott another sword from one of their party to kill him downeright saying that he should not call him <D> to Asizes or Sesions for it & [m a d] in the meane time the said Con Magenis mc Art Groome Magenis answered that he would not be more backwarder then any of the rest & soe fell vpon the said Lieutenant Hugh Treuor vntill he killed him & the rest of the Irish party vpon the English vntill they murdered them all And this examinant saith that at this time when <D>the said murder was comitted he was a Lieutenant vnder the comand of Coll: Chichester & that he heard the whole relacion of the murder comitted vpon his said Tr ffather Lieutenant Treuor & the rest by the said Edm: oge mc Hugh mc Phill Maginis & f urther from Captain Clark And further saith not
Tho Treur
Taken before vs
Geo Rawdon
Ja: Traill

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[ ] 12 May 1653
The examinacion of Leiutenant Thomas
Trevor touchinge
Murder of his ffather Leiutenant
Trevor
Versus Hugh mc Ginnis etc