HISTORY OF COUNTY DOWN - EXAMINATION OF COLONEL DONNELL MAGENNIS 1653 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Down Index Copyright ************************************************ Transcribed and contributed by Don Kelly HISTORY OF COUNTY DOWN - EXAMINATION OF COLONEL DONNELL MAGENNIS 1653 COLONEL DONNELL MAGENNIS AGED 36 YEARS OR THEREABOUTS TAKEN BEFORE US THE NINTH JUNE 1653 Who saith that he was never governor nor deputy governor of the Newry but saith that he was in Newry when Hugh McDANIEL Oge MAGENNIS was deputy governor of that town under Sir Con MAGENNIS (this examinats brother) and with him then there was Turlough Roe O'NEILL brother to Sir Phellimy and Turlough McBRIAN McHENRY Oge O'NEILL with Colonel PLUNKETT and Ever MAGENNIS. At this time (as he remembereth, long before Christmas next after the Rebellion began anno 1641) there came a messenger called Bryan O'ROWNY with letters from Captain Patrick TREVOR and Sir Henry TICHBOURNE to Sir Edward TREVOR and Marcus his son. In which letters it was desired by them that the English forces in Ulster should be of good courage and march away to Drogheda where Sir Henry TICHBOURNE was governor, that they and this party should join together to suppress and root out the Irish rebels. Which letters being taken from the said Rowny after perusal at the Council of War held there by the said Hugh McDANIEL Oge MAGENNIS, deputy governor and the said Turlough Roe O'NEILL then called Governor of Ulster and the rest of the company before set down. The said governor and this examinat were sent with these letters to Sir Edward TREVOR read them, who after reading of them he said that these letters were sent for his the said Edward TREVOR and his son Marcus their destruction or to break their necks, whereupon this examinat told the said Sir Edward, believe they shall not do you hurt till we hear further of the matters for so long as I live you shall not suffer by reason of these letters. And saith that the next day after by the said Council of war the said Bryan O'ROWNY was directed to be hanged and was accordingly accomplished albeit this examinat did solicit earnestly for his life.... Taken before R.Lydon and J. Reding Source: Trinity College Dublin Mss 1641 Deposition Book County Down (page) 186)