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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

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

the Rebels since the Cessation or before by saying he could inform many other particular omissions and dis-services which the said Respondent hath committed in this time of his imployment c. The Respondent faith That he conceiveth the Informer means it by the scandalous calumnies and aspersions digested in fifteen places of that Pamphlet Printed at London in Anno Dom. 1643. Wherein his Services are registred and wherein this Respondent and his Captains Officers and Souldiers are most injuriously taxed with often reiterations of unworthy and mean carriage towards him for that they did not wait upon him upon all his calls which this Respondent conceiveth was more then he was bound to do further then to this Respondent would seem fit for the good of the Publike Service especially when as at the same very times which was long before the Cessation he was imployed about services of far greater and better concernment in the Counties of Fermanagh Cavan Monaghan Tirone Donegall Letrim or Sligoe which hath formerly been well known both in Ireland and else where And this Respondent further sheweth That immediately after the said Cessation this Respondents Regiment destroyed 296. of the Rebels and famished many hundreds of them and also took in Rory mac Gwires Castle which is now preserved for the Parliaments use And as well then as before did rescue or otherwise redeem from the said Rebels 5467 English and Scottish Protestants and relieved them for many Moneths out of the spoils gained from the enemy untill that in his own person he guarded and conveied great numbers of them towards London-Derry where further care was taken for their relief by the good people there And saith also That he this Respondent was one of the first Colonels of the Brittish Regiments in Vlster which did imbrace and take the Solemn League and Covenant which he humbly conceives will not be deemed to be Omissions or Dis-services as the Informer terms them who since his coming hither hath not onely laboured to defame the Respondent but also hath taxed the rest of the Colonels in Vlster for their neglects in their Service who in this Respondents opinion have done much better Service then either of them Yet did this Respondent severall times shew his desires in a most effectuall manner to help and relieve the said Informer for having received a pittifull Message from him about the 26. of July 1642. That he his Wife Children and Souldiers were like to be destroyed by nine hundred of the Rebels that then besieged him This Respondent immediatly sent a party of four hundred Horse and Foot for his relief with Orders that after they had relieved the Informer they should return within fourty eight hours This Respondent being then threatned to be besieged by the Generall of the Irish Forces Owin mac Art O Neille with 6000 men but when the Respondents Lievtenant Colonell came to the Informer with this Party they found him not at all besieged not in no such extremity as he pretended but perceived he sent this pressing Message onely to get some of the Respondents men with him to take in the Castle of Dromahear which without Ordnance they could not have effected though being come at his importunitie they attempted in conclusion to no other purpose then to destroy their men Whereupon his Officers and Souldiers returned on the 29. of July from him having received many affronts and abuses And on the 20. of May following this Respondent intending some service in the Province of Conaught drew forth about 500. Horse and Foot and Leaguring within two miles of the Informers Garrison was importuned with much earnestnesse to come unto him to Christen his Son which the Respondent conceiving to be an act of charity and Christianity consented unto expecting such civilitie as might be answerable to so neighbourly an Office But both himself and those few Officers he carried with him received such grosse dis-respect that he will not desile your ears with the hearing it Neverthelesse God having blest the Respondent in his journey with successe against the enemy he gave him for the relief of his Garrison two hundred fifty and nine Cows There going with him in his journey of their own accord of the men belonging to his Garrison onely 38. Footmen and 12. Horse He moreover then bestowed upon his good Lady 1000. Sheep and what he bestowed on those Gentlemen of his Ladies Kinred and his Officers who went in a friendly manner with this Respondent the Informer suffered them not to enjoy but converted to his own use These civilities which this Respondent is most unwillingly drawn to mention he conceived might deserve more thanks and not to be himself and his Regiment exclaimed against by the Informer meerly to render him and them odious in all places where his tongue gets him credit In the time of Peace his carriage towards hie neighbours was so full of contention that there was hardly any man of quality or worth neer him in the Province of Conaught that he had not laboured to injure and oppresse either in their Estates or Reputations if not in both so that before the Rebellion began such his carriages made him extremly distastfull to men of all conditions that lived within twenty or thirty miles of him in that Province which will be evidenced by divers of his Neighbours of the best qualitie now in this City if they may be called upon for that purpose And particularly this Respondent representeth to your further notice something of the Informers demeanour towards some of his distressed Neighbours in the hands of the Rebels deciphered in these two short insuing Letters Printed in the latter end of that Book of his own Services Page 57. viz. Sir Robert Hannay's Letter and other Protestants being Prisoners at Sligoe are sent to Dromahear Castle Honourable Sir WE the undernamed persons having suffered in all our whole Estates and being upon our banishment out of this Kingdom under the safe conduct of Master Edmond Bourk of Ragagh and Master Walter Bourk of Ardagh towards the North but most opposed at Castle-Coner Eniscromme Escagh-Bridge Downeill Arnaglasse and Tomler go by severall Bands of Armed men purposely to set for our lives were not there extreme violence suppressed by the discretion worth and care of those two Gentlemen and we taken Prisoners by the Mac Swines brought before O Coner-Sligo where we now remain and intended to be sent to the Castle of Dromahear to be kept untill you Sir deliver such Prisoners of the O Roirks and others as you have in your custodie or to be dealt with as you do unto them Sir you are Nobly disposed so that in honour we hope the means of relief being in your self you will not suffer us to perish who will ever remain Sir Yours trulie obliged to serve you Signed Robert Hannay Andrew Adare Alexander Mountgomery William Liston Thomas Fullerton These be the names and number of the Prisoners Sir Robert Hannay

Respondents means whom this Repliant had by his experience found to be otherwise minded towards him as is herein sufficiently discovered which shall be all this Repliants answer to that particular more then that he utterly denieth That ever he did send any poor Protestant away succourlesse that fled to him for relief without some supplies and with such convoy and protection in their passages as he could safely spare and leave wherewith to maintain his Garrison nor was there any such differences between the said Sir John Dunbar and his Son as is alledged by the Respondent meerly to make out the matter and to raise the untruth unto a higher pitch nor can this great clamour be possibly believed That whiles there was Peace in that Kingdom and the Law was open for every mans complaint of any injury done him that any man would suffer wrong by this Repliant and not right himself being well known what favour the Repliant might expect from the late Earl of Strafford and the then Viscount Rannellagh which two commanded both the Kingdom and Province where this Repliant lived V. To the Respondents Answer to the fifth Charge this Repliant saith That forasmuch as this Respondent hath fully confessed the same there needeth no reply to be made unto it under favour and correction yet in asmuch as the Respondent indeavoureth to extenuate the same offence by his ignorance and want of knowledge of the affairs of that State and how things then moved at Dublin or in the Parliament here at that time This Repliant saith That before the Cessation concluded at Dublin and whiles it was in agitation and in Order to the same the Lord Marquesse of Ormond and Councell there made the same known unto all the Colonels and Commanders in Vlster as this Repliant hath heard and so doubteth not to prove and that the Respondent had intimation thereof amongst the rest and his approbation therein was desired and likewise after the same was so unhappily concluded the said Lord Marquesse and Councell immediatly afterwards intimated the same again unto them all and to the Respondent amongst the rest Commanding their obedience and observation thereof which was in time made and done the _____ of September 1643. above foure moneths before the Respondent by his own showing received the said Rebels into protection and it is without all peradventure and so this Repliant doubteth not to prove that even those Rebels themselves moved it unto the Respondent as a great perswasive to obtain that favour at his hands and from whom also he had perfect notice of the Lord Marquesse of Ormond his being then made Lord Lievtenant of Ireland and that he was declared an enemy to the Parliament and the welfare of that Kingdom the Respondent also before this time was certainl● informed by those Letters sent from the Parliament of England into Vlster by Captain O Connelly and otherwise how that they had declared themselves against the said Cessation and moving the Brittish Regiments to receive the solemn League and Covenant of the Kingdoms nor was the Respondent so straitned in his Quarters but that he had continuall Intelligences from London-Derry and other parts of Vlster and could not be ignorant of the passages of the State and how things moved at that time there and in the Parliament here and therefore inexecusable and it is so far from lessening as it doth rather aggravate his offence that he would receive those Rebels into protection without Order and without being first informed of all these passages of State and things in case he had been then ignorant thereof as he was not besides his fears to be supplied by the State there and his little expectation to be furnished in due time from hence cleerly informs his knowledge of these proceedings and that he rested then in doubt and in a detestable neutrality to which side he should adhere and therefore upon the matter was resolved to keep both sides his friends if possibly he could and would make use of the Rebels also to serve his own turn and that so he might stand well affected in the opinions of them also But as it was not an Act warrantable and justifieable under the power of any Commission he had so was it indiscreetly done and of great disservice unto the Parliament That this Repliant and those who were invironed by the enemy and in a great strait and in much harder condition then the Respondent and yet both understanding off and opposing the said Cessation were much discouraged and disheartned to see those Rebels under the Respondents protection to enter their Quarters and places thereabouts and to rob and spoil them of that whereby they had hope of subsistance For the Cows mentioned in the Respondents Answer to the fifth Article were not the proper Goods of the Respondents protected Rebels but prey which they had taken from the good subjects and therefore more fit for to have been possessed by thie Repliants Souldiers when they had once gotten them then by those Rebels and yet such was the Respondents zeal and care for them that by his own confession he sent afterwards unto the State of Dublin then in Cessation of Arms with the Rebels complaining thereof against this Repliants Souldiers and gaining Orders from thence for restitution And in the absence of this Repliant procured the same to be restored even to the Parliaments enemies and to be taken from the Parliaments friends and servants besides his further inclination to that Government is observable Wherein he charges it as a crime against the Repliant That he should not observe the Lord Maquesse of Ormond and the Commands of that State even by a compliance with Rebels his protected crew before mentioned Besides that he applauds it as an Act of conformity to those Commands that now in this Repliants absence he hath perswaded the Repliants Souldiers to a neer conjunction with him therein and deplores it as a great prejudice to his benefit That as he saith by this Repliant and his Souldiers means he hath thus lost this bargain and yet afterwards confesseth a many of them to be still within his quarters faithfully holding the said agreement And this Repliant further saith That for his part he disclaimeth his knowledge of any such persons as are named in the Respondents answer to be by him and his Officers protected much more the protecting of them upon his Land and if the Respondents Acts of like nature hath now drawn it into example and made the Repliants Officers in his absence to fall into such an errour and mistake he hopeth it cannot be imputed unto this Repliant for a transgression yet cannot beleeve that any such thing hath been done howsoever that taketh nothing from the Respondents offences but further sheweth the extent of his malice and what hurt he would do unto this Repliant if he were able VI. To the Respondents Answer to the sixth Article or Charge given in against him by this