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l\fihyll, Capt. Peter Carew, Capt. George Bell, Capt. St. Richd. Burnell, Lieut. Thos. Hnett, John Thomas, I.ieut. Arthur Reynolds (the last two named Lieuts. in Coil. :Finch's Regt.), Ensign Rowland Langford, in Coli. Blunt's Regt, Ens. Sam 1 • Pomery in Cull. Sterling's Regt, Thos. Benger quartermaster in the Regt comn:anded by sr. William Fenton, Capt. Thos. Dethick formerly in Coli. Baller's Regt of Draggoones, Thomas Powell who proclaimed the Declaration, Capt. Henry Rogers and Thomas Boles, to be very active in the securing said Citty, Forte, and Castle, for the English interest, and further sayth that as he heard said persons continued faithful to the Commonwealth of England.-Rwn». ToWNESEND. * Exam 0 taken before Peter Wallis, Bryan Smith, John Denison. Feb. 21, 1654.-Coli. R. T. further deposeth that Capt. Joseph Cuff,t then a Lieut to Capt. Wm. Brian, the Lord of Inchiquin's son, about four a clock in the morning pf that night the Citty of Corke declared for the Commonwealth, he the said examt met said Joseph Cuff on the north bridge of C., and after some con- ference with said Cuff, this examt and Coil. Gifford agreed that said Cuff should go into Carberry where his troop then lay, and bring as many of them as he could engage to C., for the better securing of the towne; and said C. did goe and bring 16 troopers well horst th~ next night after the towne d~livered; and that one Lieut. George Water waif by examt made acquainted with the designe to secure Youghal for the parliament, that he did joyfully consent, and brought in four..... . to the place appointed for meeting, and the same night that Y. was secured he was (by the treachery of one Johnson) taken prisoner with examt, Coli. Warden, and Coli. J efford.-Rwn», TowNESEND. t Feb. 16, 1654.-The exam 0 of Coli. Charles Blunt, aged 30 years, now resident at Clonmell, Eng. Prot., at the de6laring of C. for the Parliament, 16 Oct., 1649, then commanding a Regt of Foot in Lord Inchiquin's army. Sworn. Remem- bereth that six or seven days before the declaring of C., Lieut.-Coll. wm. Reeves and Capt. Peter Carew administered an oath to examt that he should be faithful and not reveal anything they should impart in case he should not be free to joyn them, which he did, and then said Reeves and Carew did acquaint him of their intentions to secure C., &c., for the Parlt; that abo~t three days before the decla.r- lia.m's posterity are stated in Burke's Landed Gentry. The family had come from Dorset- shire, where some of the name held the manor of Loughredy in the. reign of Charles I. ~mith, in his History of Cork, vol. ii., p. 173, says that Major Hodder, governor of Kinsale in 1656, kept a Quaker to preach to the soldiers, and he quotes Thurlow for it. But Thur- low calls him Hodden, and he is right, as appears from a letter of Bodden's in the British Museum, very distinctly written. * Smith, in his History of Cork, says that Colonel Townsend and Colonel D'Oyly wet'e im~risoned by Lord lnchiquin. The latter, however, is nowhere mentioned in the documents wh1ch :we here publish, and his name seems mistaken for that of Col. W a.rden or Col. Gifford. A ~ed1gree of this family of Townsend will be found in Burke's Landed Gentry. The earlies~ mention of the name in the county of Cork which we know of occurs in the mstance of a R1chard Townsend, of the parish of Kinneigb, who in 1630 became administrator of his father-in-law, Francis Bennett. In 1666 and 1668 Colonel Richard Townsend passed patents under the Act of Se~tlement for large estates. In 1671 and 1672 he was High Sheriff of the county of Cork. H1s descendants possess good properties in several branches. t Captain Joseph Cuffe was ancestor of the Earls of Desart. t An interesting document, purporting to be an agl'eement between Daniell O'Kieffe, of Dromagh, and Colonel Townsend, bearing his signature and seal, is in the possession of Miss Augusta A. Townsend, of Whitehall, Skibbereen.
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