Ennis Assizes 1682
Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:27 pm
This PDF-attached account of an Ennis assizes of 1682 from the Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligence (London, England), Tuesday, May 30, 1682 reports sentences against:
Commissioner Reddan for conspiring to take away the life of Ignatius Sarsfield of Canagh in the County of Clare;
Richard Moor for felony;
William Flobert for petty larceny (to be whipt)
Cranmer Molony, guilty of felony;
Morgan Brian for subornation (to stand in the pillory for 2 hours and then be discharg'd);
John Hickey (arraigned and found guilty as a common cheat).
The account of the Reddan conspiracy is gripping but apart from that it seems to have been a tedious day at the assize. There were no hangings in chains or publick flogging or other penal entertainments to leaven the proceedings.
Commissioner Reddan for conspiring to take away the life of Ignatius Sarsfield of Canagh in the County of Clare;
Richard Moor for felony;
William Flobert for petty larceny (to be whipt)
Cranmer Molony, guilty of felony;
Morgan Brian for subornation (to stand in the pillory for 2 hours and then be discharg'd);
John Hickey (arraigned and found guilty as a common cheat).
The account of the Reddan conspiracy is gripping but apart from that it seems to have been a tedious day at the assize. There were no hangings in chains or publick flogging or other penal entertainments to leaven the proceedings.