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Excerpt from Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, or the Irish Massacres of 1641-2, Vol. 2
The rest of this examination is so torn or faded as to be quite indecipherable; but he was again examined on the 14th of April, 1653, and further said that 'richard mactibbot (burke) of the barony of Kilmaine was the person who murdered Mr. Gilbert, when he was ?ying from Shrule to Cong, under the protection of Friar William Lynch, his (the examt.'s) brother.' The friar made the following deposition on the 28rd of April, 1653, from which it would appear that Mr. Gilbert was not killed before he reached Cong. This discrepancy in the evidence of two Catholic witnesses, brothers, Shows the extreme difficulty the Cromwellian Commissioners had to contend with in their efforts to ascertain the truth, and how indefatigable and impartial those efforts were.
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