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A86994	The information of Sir Frederick Hammilton, Knight, and Colonell, given to the Committee of Both Kingdoms, concerning Sir William Cole, Knight, and Colonell; with the scandalous answer of the said Sir William Cole, Knight; together with the replication of Sir Frederick Hammilton, in answer to the said scandalous and recriminating pamphlet of Sir William Cole. With divers letters and depositions, for the cleering of the said Sir Frederick Hammilton, from the severall scandals and aspersions in the said answer of Sir William Cole.	Hamilton, Frederick, Sir, fl. 1645.; Cole, William, Sir, d. 1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing H478; Thomason E284_18; ESTC R200063	81,081	97

his Lady his two Daughters two Boyes two men and a Gentlewoman Master Andrew Adare and his Wife and Sisters Son Master Alexander Mountgomery his Wife and eldest Son Master William Liston his Wife and Daughter Master Thomas Fullerton and his Wife Patrisk Deomand Master Adares man Sir after the writing of this Letter we are brought to Dromahear Castle and Order left with the Captain to bring us unto the Camp at Mannor-Hammilton where we must suffer death if those Prisoners with you be not delivered Sir Frederick Hammiltons Answer to the Letter afore-mentioned SIR I have received your Letter whereby I am given to understand of your treacherous surprisall not with standing of your safe conduct promised for the which I am very sorry But such is the treacherous falshood of those distoyall Traitors generally throughout this wholc Kingdom that hath made me vew and swear in the presence of Almighty God That I will never give or take quarter with them or any of them yea though my own Sons that discended from my Loyns were in your estate I had rather they should die gloriously for the cause of Christ then I should so abase my self as to deal with such Traytors to God and His Majestic Thus beseeching God Almightie to strengthen and incourage you that you may continue constant untill it shall please God to give you deliverance either by life or death In the mean time I am perswaded that they will use you with no worse measure then their Prisoners who were apprehended by me in the action of Rebellion are used So recommending you to God I rest Your very loving friend Frederick Hammilton Castle-Hammilton January the 19. 1641. And after he delivered this Letter unto the Messenger he hanged the chief of the Prisoners being brother to Colonell O Roirke who was desired by this exchange in the sight of the Messenger before he would permit him to depart upon whose return to the Rebels they in revenge thereof murthered about ten or eleven of the said Protestants whereof two were godly Ministers and yet if their mercy and compassion in the midst of their Barbaritie had not far transcended Sir Frederick Hammiltons they had likewise put Sir Robert Hannay and his Lady and Children and all the rest to death And that his ill disposition may the more fully appear he hath with striking and other ill usage so behaved himself toward his Officers that his Lievtenant Ensigne Minister and one of his Serjeants have all forsaken him so that he hath now no Officers but one Serjeant to command his Company at Mannor-Hammilton consisting of seventy men or thereabouts And not withstanding all this The said Informer is labouring for the Government of London-Derry and because he conceived he might prevail in that suit if his miscarriages were not discovered he moved this Respondent that all the differences betwixt them might be composed by the order of friends which motion if this Respondent would then have accepted he conceives this Information had never been heard of And as touching the Government of London-Derry aforesaid this Respondent humbly desires leave to declare that once it was conferred upon Sir George Pawlet a man whose temper in some things was not much unlike this of the Informers whose passionate demeanour in his Office was not onely the occasion of the losse of his own life but of the losse also of the lives of many of this Nation there and the burning of that Town with the kindling of a violent though as it hapned but a short Rebellion in the Countrey thereabouts which did put the State then to much unnecessary expences in the suppressing of it All which together with the premisses this Respondent humbly representeth as pertinent instances and reasons to induce the honourable Parliament not to put the Government thereof into the power of the Informer whose demeanour will never be brooked by those good people that now inhabit there upon whom all the aspersions that are laid by any late reports or Printed Letters this Respondent beleeves were invented and contrived by the Informer or his Instruments of purpose to make them detestable to this Honourable Parliament whom this Respondent is confident are as loyall and wel-wishing to the Parliament as can be expected and will really witnesse the same by their ready and joyfull receiving and obeying of any Governour except Sir Frederick Hammilton that the Parliament will be pleased to appoint over them But his conditions are so well known unto them that they will quit their fortunes and stations there which they have hither to preserved with so much expence and hazard rather then submit unto his Command And this Respondent most humbly desires this honourable Committee would be pleased to pardon him if he have trespassed upon your Patience in answer to the Charge given in by the Informer being necessitated thereunto for his more ample Vindication by laying open the disposition of the Informer which he hath most unnecessary drawn upon himself without any provocations given to him by this Respondent And humbly prayes such reparations as in your Wisdoms shall be thought fit Exhibited 11. of January 1644. Signed William Cole The Replication of Sir Frederick Hammilton Knight and Colonell To the Scandalous Recriminating Answer of Sir William Cole Given in to the Information of the said Sir Frederick Exhibited against him to the Honourable Committee of both Kingdoms the 26. of December 1644. THe said Sir William Cole confesseth the first charge and for his defence pretendeth That he gave advertisement of the said intended Rebellion by his Letters to the then Lords Justices and Councell with all possible speed with advice That their Lordships would strictly examine the Lord Mac Gwire and others his Complices concerning the same But if his notice given to the Lords Justices had been so timely as his Information was seasonable by him confessed to have been twelve dayes before the breaking out of the said Rebellion without all peradventure the Lords Justices and Councell would not have neglected the opportunity of preventing so great a mischief which had not been easily done if to have understood thereof so long before nor can it be credited for tructh that the Respondent gave them any such timely notice when it is manifest That the discovery thereof unto the Lords Justices and Councell by Captain O Connelly was with much difficulty to his person very late in the night immediately before the same day it was to have been acted at Dublin And the Respondent being a Justice of the Peace and Corum and a man invested with great power and authority in his Countrey and of great credit amongst the people by the duty of his place should as very easily he might and ought to have apprehended the Conspirators the said Lord Mac Gwire and the rest of the chief of them being his neer neighbours whose persons if he had secured in so long time before the Tragedie was to have been acted would

that Sir William Cole would make them sure for Justice they being then daily imployed by him which he refused to do aleadging that they had done good service to him and afterward suffered them to escape IV. That whereas Sir Frederick Hamilton had taken one Robert Parck one that complied with the Rebels and had him in custody a yeer and more and had likewise gained the Command of the Castle which was of great advantage and service to the Parliament And by means whereof the said Sir Frederick did daily much spoil and annoy the Rebels The said Sir William Cole knowing the consequence thereof and how well affected the said Parck stood unto the Rebels on a time after that horrid Cessation concluded with the Rebels and when he knew that Sir Frederick himself his Wife and Children were gone for London-Derry some sixtie miles from Mannor Hammilton The said Sir William Cole upon the Marquis of Ormonds commands sends his Ensign with 40. Muskettiers unto Sir Fredericks said Garrison and by permission of the said Sir Fredericks Lievtenant who commanded in his absence and corresponded with him as it should seem be took away the said Parck And whereas he was by the said Order to have conveyed him unto London-Derry and so to Dublin be first feasted him as his Castle and then returned him back amongst the Rebels who received him with all gladnesse and after they had rejoyced a while together they go along with him to Dublin where afterwards be procures an Order of the State for restitution of his Castle with whatsoever Arms and Goods were in it which he accordingly obtained in Sir Fredericks absence Which he and the Rebels now make good against the Parliament to the great prejudice of the Parliaments Service and the danger and hazard of all those parts of Conaught And this done albeit the said Sir William Cole well knew that Sir Frederick had refused to deliver the said Prisoner upon severall Orders and Commands sent unto him by the said Marquis for that purpose as well knowing the said Parck to be an utter Enemy to the Parliament here and their proceedings And one for whom the Lord Viscount Taaffe that Arch-rebel had by his Letters solicited the said Sir Frederick for his delivery V. That the said Sir William Cole did in the moneth of February next after the said Cessation apply himself unto the Marquis of Ormond who then and long before was declared an Enemy to the Parliament And complained against the said Sir Frederick and his Souldiers to the said Marquis for taking of a prey from the Rebels which Rebels the said Sir William Cole had then protected and gained an Order from the said Marquis for restitution thereof which notwithstanding was disobeyed VI. That before the said Cessation the said Sir William Cole corresponded with the Rebels and took 100. of them at the least into his Protection and formed them into a Company consisting of a Captain and Officers and imployed them for some time with the rest of his Regiment who did him service in getting of Preys but did great dis service unto the State in giving Intelligence against all the Brittish of their proceedings and more particularly did much grieve and offend Sir Fredericks Garrison at Mannor hammilton who at the last took their opportunitie and turned Rebels again The said Sir Frederick could inform many other particular Omissions and Dis services which the said Sir William Cole hath committed in this time of his imployment since the Rebellion began in Ireland which because they do concern himself in a more neer relation he shall therefore forbear to mention And the said Sir Frederick is ready to justifie himself in whatsoever that any man can object against him And humbly prayeth that this honourable Committee will not think the worse of him for discharging his duty to God and the State by the informing of these Miscarriages which in Conscience he holds himself bound to relate in pursuance of his solemn League and Covenant Frederick Hammilton To the Right Honourable the Lords and others The Committees of both Kingdoms The humble Answer of Sir William Cole Knight and Colonell to the Information of Sir Frederick Hammilton Knight Exhibited against him to your Lordships the 26. of December 1644. I. FOr answer to the first Article he saith That he had no certain notice of the intended Plots of the Irish to break out into Rebellion as is suggested by the Informer but saith That upon the eleventh of October 1641. Bryan mac Coconaght Magwire Esquire and one Flartagh mac Hugh informed him of some jealousies of suspitions that they then apprehended of some evil Intentions and practises of the Lord Magwire Sir Phelem roe O Neil Neil mac Kennay Hugh oge mac Mahon and others of the Irish Gentry of Vlster of which he gave advertisement by his Letter to the then Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland with all possible speed also intimating his desires That their Lordships would be so pleased to take that matter into their serious consideration as that they would strictly examine the said Lord Magwire and others of his Complices concerning the same who he understood were shortly after to be at Dublin which Letter or a Copie thereof this Respondent understands was transmitted by their Lordships to the Parliament of England and remains with the Clerk of the Honourable House of Commons and was one of the chiefest evidences and motives upon the Discovery made by Owin O Connallie to induce the State to be upon their Guard and also of the apprehension of the Lord Magwire Hugh oge mac Mahon Coconaght Magwire Redmond Magwire Tirlagh oge mac Hugh and others of their consorts in Dublin the 23. of October 1641. or thereabouts And for proof of this advertisement he can produce their Lordships letter in answer of his which he received before the Rebellion broke out And further saith That upon the 21. of October 1641. the said Plot being more fully discovered unto him by the said Flartagh mac Hugh by direction from the said Bryan Magwire and by one Fargus O Howen how the Rebellion was to break out universally by the Irish on the 23. of that Moneth He not onely posted away a Messenger with a second letter Notice was given of this Rebellion from the Respondent to Sir Frederick Hammilton at London-Derry the 22. of October 1641. by rancis Barnaby to signifie the same unto the said Lords Justices and Councell which was intercepted by the way at Loghramar but also the same day hastened eighteen Messengers with so many Letters to notifie the same to his Neighbours at Monea Castle-Balfour Newtown Newpurtton Lowtherstown Archdale Bowssland Clogher Glasslogh and elsewhere as far as in so short and distracted a time he could possibly do being fully busied to draw his Neighbours and Tenants together and to Arm and put them into a posture of War for the defence of the Castle and Town of Iniskillin and

the parts thereabouts and amongst others did then direct particular advertisement thereof to be given unto Mannor-hammilton where the Rebellion broke not out in a Moneth after and of which the Informer could not afterwards be ignorant though he himself was then absent and certainly of all men hath least reason to lay this as a crime to the Respondents charge had he not wanted other matter II. To the second Article he answereth That the Commission therein mentioned as he hath heard was the first ground of the Informers envy and discontent not onely against this Respondent but also against all the other Brittish Colonels then in Vlster that received Commissions from His Majestie at that time for the raising of their Regiments and prosecuting of the Rebels taking it in great disdain that there was not the like Commission then sent unto him whereas for ought this Respondent could ever hear none of the said Colonels knew any certainty of the said Commissions untill they were brought unto them neither did this Respondent receive his said Commission untill almost a yeer after the Rebellion began at which time he gave notice thereof unto all his Captains for that during the greatest part of that yeer he was so inclosed on all sides with multitudes of the enemies being above fourty miles distant from any that were able to give him relief that he could not receive any intelligence how the state of the Protestants of that Kingdom stood in any part thereof though he had often used his best endeavours to gain the same to his exceeding great charges and the hanging of twelve or fourteen of his Messengers by the Rebels And the said Informer finding this Respondent next unto him and conceiving him easiest to be dealt withall hath ever since used his uttermost indeavours by invective Calumnies to asperse and undervalue both him and his actions which he hath ever envied so that by extolling his own unknown services he laboureth as much as in him lieth so eclipse those well know services performed by this Respondent and all other the Commanders and Officers in Ulster and Conaught And this Respondent further saith That by vertue of a Commission from the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland to him directed at the beginning of the said Rebellion for raising Arming and Banding all the Brittish within the County of F●rmanaugh he with the help of his friends raised Armed and Banded the nine Companies in the said second Article specified together with a Troop of Horse by vertue whereof also he might have raised Armed and Banded as many of the Brittish as he could have drawn together for their own mutuall defence and prosecution of the Rebels by whose assistance and Gods great blessings sundry good services have been performed whereof this Respondent did often give intimation both to the Honourable Parliament and to the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland Humbly desiring that in reward of their good services they might be listed into the Parliaments pay and Regimented under his Command But inasmuch as he could not obtain that favour by reason of the troubles then hear though earnestly sollicited by his friends and that but 500. of his Foot and his Troop was inlisted and taken into the Parliaments pay from the first of July 1642. as appears by Order of the 21. of that Moneth and Provisions of Cloaths and Victuals being onely sent for them upon the solicitation of his Agent Master Robert Barklay this Respondent was constrained to deliver out the said Cloaths unto the Officers and Souldiers of the said five Companies not being able to divide the said 500. Suits amongst 900. men viz. Unto his own Company his Lievtenant-Colonels his Serjeant-Majors to the Company of Captain John Cole and to the Company of Captain Hugh Rosse of whom three are Scottish Officers and whom without prejudice to the others merrit he conceived very deserving of the Imployment Offering at the very same time to the other four Captains and their Companies an equall divident of all other Provisions sent him then by the Parliament and of what spoils they could get from the Rebels if they would continue with him in the Service promising also to use his best endeavours to have them taken into pay and added to his Regiment But the Cloaths being thus divided which could not be otherwise the said four Companies were so discontented that of their own accords they disbanded themselves and went to seek their fortunes elsewhere and yet the greatest part of their best and ablest men were perswaded to continue in the Garrison so that this Respondent denieth that he did cashiere four of the said Captains and their Companies of purpose to gain all the said Provisions to himself and his son in law Master Barklay as is suggested by the Informer but was so far from doing so dishonest an act that during the stay of the said four Captains and their Companies in the Garrison they received an equall and proportionable share of the Victuals sent by the Parliament unto his five Companies onely and moreover he then and about that time did procure upon the credit and obligations of himself and his friends worth 1300 l. more in Corn and other Provisions for his said five Companies and Troop besides those Provisions before mentioned to be sent them from the Parliament without which care and charge it was impossible for him to keep his Souldiers together and to do service for the publike in a remote Garrison invironed then with Rebels on all sides III. To the third Article this Respondent saith That one James Dunbar Esquire and son and heir of Sir John Dunbar Knight whose Lands with a good Iron-work thereon lies next adjoyning to part of the Lands of the Informer whose desire to intrude upon and gain their Rights to himself as they often affirmed to this Respondent begot much contention amongst them as it did between him and all others also who were his Landed Neighbours which bred such malice in the heart of the Informer against the said James that he not onely exceedingly thirsted after his life but after the Lives also of his two servants the Hetheringtons in the said Article mentioned not Papists as therein is surmised but then and now Protestants who as well to shun the malice of the Informer as the fury of the Rebels came with his said Father unto this Respondent in December 1641. Who intrusted the said James with the custody of the Castle of Lissgole neer Iniskillin with 74. persons with him where he was assaulted the 18. of December 1641. or thereabouts by a powerfull party of the enemy under the conduct of Rorie Magwire brother of the Lord Magwire who then took and burned the said Castle and massacred all that were in it except the said James Dunbar whom the Rebels kept in prison untill May or June 1642. At which time he made an escape and came again accompanied with the said two Hetheringtons unto this

and that upon much importunitie whose extreme misery was lamentably bewailed by all the men that were in that Garrison And then he not onely seized upon and kept his Castle of Newtown putting a Guard of his own into it but also plundered and converted to his own use all his Money Plate Arms Housholdstuff Beding Furniture and all other his Goods whatsoever which he had then as wel without as within doors there not suffering his Souldiers to come out of restraint or use their own Arms untill he had unlawfully compelled them to take an Oath to serve as Souldiers under his onely Command By reason whereof the said Master Parck was utterly disabled to perform far greater and much more advantageous Services in every degree in that place for this Honourable Parliament against the Rebels then ever the Informer did or could do there as this Respondent hath been credibly informed as well by the Testimony of sundry other honest men as by the said Master Parck himself Whereupon Sir Edward Pavie Knight whose daughter was the Wife of the said Master Parck together with others his friends being advertised of his extreme hard usage Petitioned the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland for his removall to Dublin to answer such matters as the Informer had to lay to his charge and entered into Recognizance of 10000 l. for his appearance upon which their Lordships by Order dated in May 1643. or thereabouts required the Informer to set the said Parck at libertie to be sent either to Captain Folliot to Ballyshannan or unto this Respondent to Iniskillin together with the matters that he had to object against him That so he might be conveighed by them or one of them to London-Derry to be sent from thence to Dublin But the Informer notwithstanding the said Order was shewed unto him denied obedience thereunto and detained the said Parck still in durance untill his said friends procured severall Orders commanding his inlargement yet nothing would prevail to that effect with him untill that about the beginning of Septtmber 1643. Captain King coming with a Troop of Horse from Conaught into Vlster about some businesse he had with Sir William Stuart and Sir Robert Stuart he came about the thirteenth of that moneth to Iniskillin unto this Respondent who sent his Ensign with fifty Muskettiers to guard the said Troop to the Abbey of Boyl in Conaught which is about fourty miles from Iniskillin who were so far from knowing or allowing of the said Cessation mentioned in the said fourth Article that they fought with and kild some Rebels in the passe of Ballinafadd and took a prey from thence to the Boyl whence upon return of the said Ensign he came to Mannor-Hammilton in his way where he delivered a Letter from this Respondent to Lieutenant Lesley the Informers Lievtenant it being directed to the Informer or in his absence to the Officer in chief at Mannor-Hammilton with an Order of the Copy of an Order which the Respondent received from the said Captain Foliot in it directed also as aforesaid from the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland for the inlargement of the said Parck to be sent to Iniskillin or Ballyshannon which this Respondent left to his choice to do or not to do as best pleased the Informer or his said Officer who sent the said Parck along with the said Ensign and because he was sensible of the great misery which he had wrongfully sustained by his Captains severitie he delivered to the said Master Parck two of his own Horses with some other little help toward his charges as the said Parck told this Respondent when he came to Iniskillin before which time this Respondent was never acquainted with him neither did this Respondent know or ever heard that he was affected to the Rebels neither did he know any manner of certainty of the concluding of the Cessation with the said Rebels untill he received advertisement together with a Proclamation to that effect from the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland the 23. of October 1643. or thereabouts nor did he or could he obey the said Cessation before or since that day neither did he take any notice whether the Informer or his Wife and Children were gone to London-Derry neither was the Marquesse of Ormond at that time Lord Justice Lord Deputy or Lord Lievtenant of Ireland nor did this Respondent receive any such commands from his Lordship to send to the Informer as in the said fourth Article is surmized neither did this Respondent look for or expect any indirect corresponding from the Informers Lievtenant And this Respondent saith That as a Prisoner and poor distressed Englishman his Countrey-man being under bail and mainprize as aforesaid he gave some entertainment unto the said Parck for some few weeks in his house far short of feasting as the Informer terms it and not finding safety to convey him by the neerest way to Dublin he sent a guard together with one Henry Langford and other English and Scotchmen with him to Mannor-Hammilton again where he heard he was lodged for a night and where the Informer or his Officer might have detained him if they pleased But from thence he was conveyed by the said Langford and others to the Abbey of Boyl whence after he recovered of a Feaver whereof he had almost died he repaired to Dublin and according to the condition of his said friends Recognizance appeared before the Lords Justices and Councell at the Councell Board there where how he was proceeded withall this Respondent knoweth not neither did this Respondent return him back amongst the Rebels neither doth he know whether any of them did company him to Dublin neither doth this Respondent believe that the state there would grant him an Order for Restitution of his Castle with whatsoever Arms or Goods were in it unlesse it appeared to them that he was wrongfully expulsed by the Informer And this Respondent saith That he heard that by vertue of such Order of the State the said Castle was restored unto him and that he keeps it as the rest of the Brittish Forces in Conaught doth their Holds for the Parliament forces For upon the 25. of March last past as this Respondent hath been informed the said Parck his Souldiers of Newtown with the Informers Souldiers did spoil and prey the Rebels at Dromahear within six miles of Castle-hammilton and two miles of Master Parcks Castle of Newtown so as the Informers allegation that he and the Rebels makes good that Castle against the Parliament to the prejudice of the Parliaments service and the danger and hazard of all those parts of Conaught is meerly surmized invented and devised of purpose as this Respondent conceives to make him odious on the one side that the Informer may thereby the better work his malice against him and on the other side to bring the said Master Parck into the displeasure of the Parliament whereby he may make way to gain his

Estate And this Respondent further saith That he never knew or heard of any Orders or Commands sent unto the Informer by the said Marquesse of Ormond to the said Master Parck neither did he know or doth beleeve the said Parck to be an utter enemy to the Parliament or their proceedings nor doth he know neither doth it concern him whether the Lord Viscount Taaffe did by his Letters solicite the Informer for the delivery of the said Parck But this Respondent doth beleeve in his conscience That if the said Parck had but 1000 l. in the world he would give 500 l. of it to be here now to be a most humble Suiter to this Honourable Parliament for remedy against the said Informer for these and many other intollerable wrongs and high oppressions done him by the said Informer And this Respondent humbly craveth leave to declare further the behaviour of the said Informer towards Thomas Abbercromy Esquire a Protestant and principall undertaker in that Plantation and sometimes High-Sheriff of that County whose Estate there bordered upon the Informers within a mile of his Castle whom he also Imprisoned and kept in miserable durance for a long time out of the malice which in particular he bore to himself and also unto his Father in law Sir John Dunbar Knight and James Dunbar Esquire his Brother in law not suffering any to wash his linnen but was necessitated with his own hands to wash his shirts in his own Urine And at length being set at liberty the poor Gentleman with his Wife and Children came in great want of all necessaries to Iniskillin to this Respondent who used means to releeve them untill he conveyed them towards his native Countrey of Scotland And further this Respondent saith That as he hath been credily Informed by divers honest Protestants who well knew the Informers evil carriages to those that were under his command and more especially to the Protestants that fled from Sir John Dunbars Iron-works to his house for safeguard of their lives the Informer compelled many of them without sending guards or convoys with them to depart from his Garrison insomuch as by their endeavouring to travell twenty miles over Mountainous wayes towards Iniskillin many of them were murthered in their journey by the Rebels And in particular twelve or fourteen persons at one time and divers of them famished through hunger and cold which will be proved by sundry men and women of the same Companies whose Fortune it was through Gods Providence to escape those dangers And are now resident partly under this Respondent at Imskillin and others of them dispersedly dwelling amongst other Regiments in Vlster and elsewhere V. To the fifth Article this Respondent saith That he did not know in the Moneth of February after the said Cessation whether or no the said Lord Marquesse of Ormond was Lord Lievtenant of Ireland nor whether he was declared an Enemy to the Parliament nor did he hear any other then that he was gracious and acceptable unto the Parliament untill this Respondent was now upon his journey to London and saith that after concluding of the said Cessation which how acceptable it was to the Parliament this Respondent being so remote understood not he by vertue of a Commission dated in November or December 1641. from Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlace then Lords Justices of Ireland and the Councell there did upon the 29. of January 1643. or thereabouts receive Tirlagh oge mac Gawran and some followers of his being Inhabitants of the Barony of Tallaghagh in the County of Cavan together with their Goods into protection appointing them some quarters to dwell and grase upon neer Iniskillin untill directions to the contrary should come from the Parliament and that upon agreement that they should pay 70 l. in Money or Victuals by a time limited towards the better subsistance of the Souldiers of this Respondents Regiment for the preserving of that Garrison whose provisions being then neer spent had no hopes to be supplied by the State there and as little expectation to be furnished in due time from hence and the said protected men having delivered in one of their Kinsmen unto this Respondent to remain in prison at Iniskillin in pledge as well for their Loyalties during their continuance upon the said Protection as the paying of the said Contribution and performing other duties conformable to their agreement gathered their Goods from remote parts and upon the second of February 1643. or thereabouts were coming to the quarters assigned to them by this Respondent but by the way the Souldiers of the Informer incountering them declared that they were in want of Victuals in their Garrison and although they would forbear to kill them for so far they agreed to the said Protection yet they would and must borrow some Cows from them upon Ticket to be payed by the State out of their entertainment and thereupon took from them three or four hundred Cows whereof their Officers at Mannor-Hammilton upon the mediation of the Respondents Lievtenant Colonell caused the greatest part to be restored again unto the said Owners but refused to deliver the rest Of which upon the next occasion that this Respondent had to write to Dublin at the request of the said Owners he gave intimation unto the then Lords Justices and Councell and thereupon the said Lord Marquesse being newly then Lord Lievtenant of Ireland did by his Warrant command not onely the restoring of the residue of the said Goods unto the Owners but withall required better correspendency to be observed for the future between the Officers and Souldiers of the Informer and those of Iniskillin and not to clash or jar between themselves but whether the said latter Order was obeyed as touching the restitution of the said Goods this Respondent knoweth not and faith That the Officers and Souldiers of the said Garrisons not in obedience to that Order but of their own mutuall accords have ever since the Informer left those parts lived in better amitie then ever they did or could do whilest he continued there amongst them Neverthelesse this Respondent faith That by reason of that impediment offered by the Informers Souldiers as aforesaid this Respondent and his Souldiers lost the benefit of that bargain to the great prejudice of that Garrison And faith further That the Informer or his Officers received into his Protection by what authority this Respondent could never yet understand one Owin or James mac Murrey Margaret Ny Cabe and sundry other Rebels of the Countie of Letrym and kept them and their Goods upon his own Lands of Glanfern neer his Garrison in that County which will be proved by Certificate and sundry Letters of the date of January 1643. under the hand of his own Lievtenant and others VI. To the sixth Article this Respondent denieth that ever he corresponded with the Rebels as by the said Informer is therein suggested but faith That by vertue of the

aforesaid Commission from the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland he did receive into protection one Bryan mac Coconaght mac Gwire Esquire with fourty or fifty of his Friends Servants and Tenants who had some Goods of their own to live upon taking Pledges from some of them for Assurance of their Loyalties which Protection this Respondent humbly conceiveth was lawfull for him to grant unto the said Bryan Magwire for the Reasons following viz. First For that upon the 21. of October 1641. he discovered unto this Respondent by Flartagh mac Hugh aforenamed the purpose of the Irish to rise into Rebellion upon Friday and Saturday the 22. and 23. of October aforesaid advising him and all the English and Scottish Protestants in the Town of Iniskillin and County of Farmanagh to be carefully upon their defence which this Respondent acknowledgeth was by Gods mercy and providence the principall Motive that prevented the Murthering of this Respondent and of all those Protestants that escaped that bloody Massacre thereabouts Secondly For that the said Bryan did refuse to joyn in any Action with the Rebels denying to enter into their Oaths of Confederacy and Association against the Protestants for which he was in great danger to be cut off by them Thirdly For that he preserved under his own Protection divers of the Brittish Nation Protestants which together with severall of their Goods he brought safe to Iniskillin when he was so received into Protection as Ambrose Carleton Richard Irwing Gawan Bettie and many others Fourthly For that by receiving him being an eminent man of Vlster and allied unto many Noble Families both in Scotland and Ireland it exceedingly abated the fury and courage of the Rebels and distracted their Consultations in those Parts and wholly dis-joyned the Forces of the Rebels in that County by dividing themselves into factions and no lesse disheartned those of the next adjoyning Counties which in that interim and for a long time after did abundantly advantage and further the Publike Service Fifthly For that in further Evidence of his Loyalty to the English Crown and Government he presented a Letter unto this Respondent which came unto him from Owin mac Artt O Neille Uncle of the Lord Magwire and Generall of the Rebels in Vlster who lately before arived in Ireland with Men Arms and Ammunition out of West-Flanders which Letter is as followeth vix To our Loving and Dear Cousien Bryan mac Coconaght Magwire Loving Cousin KNow that I am arived at this Harbour nine or ten dayes past whether I sent before me as much Ammunition as I deemed needfull to answer the necessitie of this Countrey And that I have here now Men and Provisions such as by the leave of God will give great comfort and succour unto this whole Kingdom But beloved Cousin I am given to understand that not withstanding your sufferance and distresse you are abundantly inclined to side with the English Nation which indecd doth exceedingly grieve me Wherefore I will have you from henceforth as you tender your own good to banish those thoughts out of your minde and not to pursue those Resolutions which in the end may be the occasion of your own Destruction as I think it will be to all those whose mindes will appear contrary to ours Let these suffice with the addage of many salutes unto you from Castle-Do the 18. of July 1642. Your affectionate Kinsman Signed Owen O Neille And besides the said Bryan gained Intelligence of great concernment from the enemy and discovered it at all times and upon all occasions unto this Respondent who made great use thereof for the furtherance and advancement of the Publike Service whereof this Respondent made report by his Letters unto Sir William Parsons and Sir John Burlace then Lords Justices of Ireland and the Councell there to whom he did send the said Bryan Magwire to Dublin who did not onely approve of this Respondents act in receiving of him and his men into Protection as aforesaid but also as this Respondent was informed did further signisie unto this Honourable Parliament the affection and service of the said Bryan with their desires in his behalf that he should be rewarded for the same And afterward their Lordships returned the said Bryan unto this Respondent allowing him and his men to be continued upon Protection at Iniskillin Neer unto which Garrison he remains loyall even at this time but in a most miserable condition for want of necessaries And this Respondent denieth That ever he did forme the said protected men into a Company consisting of a Captain and Officers as in the said sixth Article is meerly devised and surmised but did imploy them under the leading of some of the Brittish Gentlemen of his Garrison upon Service many times with the rest of his Regiment against the Rebels wherein they were of abundant use as well for Spies and Guides as by killing and destroying the enemy as effectually as others did and for ought known by this Respondent did no dis-service at any time unto the State in giving Intelligence against all or any of the Brittish of their proceedings and divers of the said protected men being taken prisoners at severall times by the Rebels were put to death for taking part with this Respondent But this Respondent denieth That all the said protected men did take their opportunity to turn to the Rebels again as is surmised but some few that did leaving their Pledge which they gave for assurance of their Loyalty in prison at Iniskillin this Respondent caused him to be hanged when they proved disloyall And this Respondent humbly conceiveth That as Rahab and her Parents Family and Friends for her sake were preserved in Jericho for saving the two Spies of Joshuah so this Honourable Parliament will be pleased to think That this Respondent did no dis-service unto the State in protecting and preserving of the said Bryan Magwire and some of his Friends for his sake who was the Instrument of the saving of the lives of many thousands of Protestants even Gods people from being utterly destroyed by the fury of the said bloody Rebels ANd for answer unto that expression wherewith the said Informer seems to conclude his Information Note that since this Answer was sent into the Commons House of Parliament Sir William Cole received a Letter of the 8. of January 1644. Written by one of the Captains of his Regiment from Iniskillin certifying that about that time fourty Horse and 120. Foot of that Garrison fought with and routed 500. Foot and 3. Troops of Horse of the Rebels conducted by Colonell Philip O Rely wherein they not onely rescued their own Cattle which were Plundered by the Enemy But also killed 140. of them in the place and took 55. Prisoners whereof are Officers one Serjeant Major 3. Captains two Lievtenants with divers Gentlemen and other Officers Whereby it appears that neither the said Sir William or his Souldiers did any way correspond with

Natives as would come under protection for contribution to be payed towards support of the said Garrison of Iniskillin yet no restitution is made Upon consideration whereof at this Board We have just reason to be highly displeased not onely in that we finde such want of due and friendly correspondence rendered by that Garrison of Castle-Hammilton to the said Garrison of Iniskillin as in wisdom and reason ought to be expected But also in that we finde that unadvisednesse accomompanied with so high and manifest contempt against His Majesties Autheritie intrusted with this Board And therefore in favour of you before we proceed any other way to punish that contempt We think fit hereby to admonish you and require you immediatly upon sight hereof to cause such due restitution and satisfaction to be made herein as Sir William Cole may have no further cause of complaint And we do let you know That we are so sencible not onely of this unfriendlinesse hapned between His Majesties own Garrisons who ought to be equally carefull of each other but also of the contempt therein offered to the Honour and Dignity of this Board As if due and present restitution be not made immediatly We will take such other course herein as may not onely be penall to the contemners but also examplary for others to take warning by And so we bid you farewell From His Majesties Castle of Dublin 26. of February 1643. R. Bolton Canc la Dublyn Your Loving Friends John Borlasse Ormonds Cha. Lambard Ja. Ware Fr. Willouchby Edw. Brabaron Geo. Wentworth The Copy of Sir William Coles Letter which he sent in the absence of Sir Frederick Hammilton to his Castle and Garrison with the Copy of an old Petition in the name of Master Robert Parck then Prisoner at Mannor-Hammilton Castle by which Petition and the Lords Justices and Councell their Order thereupon may appear how little Warrant or Reason Sir William Cole had to meddle in that businesse which he forbore till after the Cessation was concluded and that he knew Sir Frederick to be gone with a Resolution not to submit to that dishonourable Cessation To his Honourable Neighbour Sir Frederick Hammilton Knight or in his absence to the chief Officer Commanding his Company in Mannor-Hammilton Castle SIR BY the inclosed which is the Copy of Master Parks Petition and the Order of the Lords Justices and Councell including the Lord Ma●quesse of Ormond Lord Lievtenant Generall of His Majesties Army You may perceive that Master Parck with such matters as are to be objected against him was to be left at the Garrison at Ballishanny in the County of Dunnegall to be thence sent with the next Convoy to London-Derry and so from thence to Dublin to be there proceeded with as shall be fit And seeing the poor Gentleman is restrained and not sent accordingly least you cannot spare a Guard of yours to convoy him not yet Ballishanny in this busie time of Harvest to send for him I have now sent the Bearer Charles Cokis my Ensign Serjeant Graham and fourty Muskettiers for him to whose hands I desire he may be now delivered with the matters to be objected against him to be guarded and safely conveyed to the Garrison of Ballishanny and thence to Derry and so to Dublin as by the said Order is required Whereunto I doubt not but you will give all due Obedience Which leaving to your consideration I commit you and us all to the protection and direction of the Almighty I will rest Your loving friend William Cole Iniskillin 18. of Septemb. 1643. The humble Petition of Robert Parck Equire To the Right Honourable the Lords Justices HUmbly shewing That your Petitioner being an English man a constant Professor of the Religion established in the Church of England and from the beginning of the present troubles zealously affected to the service of his Majesty and the State of this Kingdom was in July last called upon by Sir Frederick Hamilton Knight to go with him to his Majesties service which the Petitioner most willingly assented unto and having with his Souldiers and Servants given the best assistance for the effecting of the said service the said Sir Frederick Hamilton intreated your Petitioner and his men for his safer Convoy to go with him to Mannor-Hamilton which your Petitioner did thinking to returne the next day to his Castle but ever since the said Sir Frederick hath keept your Petitioner closse Prisoner not permitting him to go to Divine service or to hear the Word of God for the comfort of his soule neither will yeld any reason to the Petitioner nor to any other for his detaining In tender consideration whereof and forasmuch as your Petitioner obtained former directions from the Honourable Lords Justices and Councell to the said Sir Frederick to send the Petitioner to the Lord President of Conaught to be convoyed hither to answer what could be alledged against him May it therefore please your Honours once more by your Letters or otherwise as in your grave wisdomes you shall think fit to send directions to the said Sir Frederick for the Petitioners inlargement upon such sufficient Baile as your Honours shall think fit to take for his appearance to answer to what Objections shall be laid to his charge And he shall pray c. 25. of May 1643. BY Order of this Board of the 24. of January last we required Sir Frederick Hamilton to cause the Petitioner with such matters as are objected against him to be delivered to the Lord President of Conaught to be sent with the then next Convoy to the Citie of Dublin to be here proceeded with as shall be fit Which Order it seems was not convoyed to the said Sir Frederick And now we require the said Sir Frederick to cause the Petitioner with such matters as are to be objected against him to be left at the Garrison of Bellishanny in the Countie of Dunnegall to be thence sent with the next Convoy to London-derry and from thence hither to be here proceeded with as shall be fit Copia vera Signed John Borl●sse Hen. Titchborne Ormond Roscomen Ad. Loftus Will. Parsons Gerard Lowther J● Temple The Copy of Sir Frederick Hammiltons Letter to the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland upon the receit of this Petition and Order thereupon together with the Copy of a Letter written by the Prisoner Master Parck to his Father in Law Sir Edward Povy then in Dublin who procured the said Order as also the Copy of a Letter from the Lord Taaffe that Arch-Rebell and wicked Incendiary Right Honourable I Received your Lordships Order the sixth of July dated the 25. of May grounded upon a scandalous and seditious Petition presented in the name of Robert Parck Equire now my Prisoner That he being an English man a constant Professor of the established Religion and zealously affected to the service of his Majesty should have been by me surprized and imprisoned without any warrant or reason the aspertion of this