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A80073	The answere and vindication of Sir William Cole Knight and Colonell (presented to the Right Honourable the Lords and others the Committee of both Kingdomes, and by them sent to be reported to the Honourable the Commons house of Parliament of England at Westminster) unto a charge given in by Sir Frederick Hamilton Knight, to the said committee, against the said Sir Will: Cole. Wherein also will appeare, how frivolous, the aspersions are, which were endeavoured to be cast upon the said Sir William, and his regiment, in a pamphlet set forth in anno Dom. 1643. Declaring the services of the said Sir Frederick. Which chiefly occasioned this answer from the presse.	Cole, William, Sir, d. 1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing C5033; Thomason E274_30; ESTC R209885	19,773	17

will ever remaine Sir Yours truly obliged to serve you Signed Robert Hannay Andrew Adare Alexander Mountgomorie William Liston Thomas Fullerton These be the names and number of the Prisoners Sir Robert Hannay his Lady his two Daughters two Boyes two men and a gentlewoman Master Andrew Adare and his wife and Sisters Son Master Alexander Mountgomerie his wife and eldest sonne Master William Liston his Wife and Daughter Master Thomas Fullerton and his Wife Patrick Deomand Mr. Adares man Sir after the writing of this Letter we are brought to Dromaheare Castle and Order left with the Captaine to bring us unto the Camp at Mannor-hamilton where we must suffer death if those Prisoners with you be not delivered Sir Frederick Hamiltons Answer to the Letter afore-mentioned SIR I have received your Letter whereby I am given to understand of your treacherous surprisal notwithstanding of your safe conduct promised for the which I am very sorry But such is the trecherous falshood of those disloyal Traytors generally throughout this whole Kingdome that both made me Vow and sweare 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 loynes were in your estate I had rather they should dye gloriously for the cause of Christ then I should so abase my selfe as to deale with such Traytors to God and his Majesty Thus beseeching God Almighty 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 meane 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 Hamilton Castle-Hamilton Ianuary the 19 1641. And after he delvered this letter unto the Messenger he hanged the chiefe of the Prisoners being brother to Collonel O Roirke who was desired by this exchange in the sight of the Messenger before he would permit him to depart upon whose returne to the Rebels they in revenge thereof Murthered about 10 or 11 of the said Protestants whereof two were Godly Ministers and yet if their mercy and Compassion in the midst of their Barbarity had not farre transcended Sir Frederick Hamiltons 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 appeare he hath with striking and other ill usage so behaved himselfe toward his Officers that his Lieutenant 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-Hamilton consisting of 70 men or thereabouts And notwithstanding all this the said Informer is labouring for the Government of Londonderry and because he conceived he might prevaile in that sure if his miscariages 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 beene heard of And as touching the Government of Londonderry 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 Towne with the kindling of a violent though as it happened but a short Rebellion in the Country 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 layd 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 detestablee to this Honourable Parliament whom this Respondent is confident are as Loyal and well 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 Hamilton that the Parliament will be pleased to appoint over them But his conditions are so well knowne unto them that they will quit their fortunes and stations there which they have hitherto 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 hee have trespassed upon your Patience in answere 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 hee hath most unnecessarily drawne upon himselfe without any provocations given to him by this Respondent And humbly prayes such reparations as in your Wisdomes shall be thought fit Signed WILLIAM COLE Exhibited 11 of January 1644. Notice was given of this Rebellion from the Respondent to Sir Frederick Hamilton at London Derry the 22. of October 1641. by Francis Barnaby Note that this Iohn Wetherspin conceived to have been the Father was not the man the said Sir Frederick shot as aforesaid yet was hanged by him but it was another old sick bedridden Scotshman that was so shot and kild by him in manner aforesaid Note that there were Suites depending both in Ireland and in England betweene Sir Frederick Hamilton and the said Iames Wetherspin some yeares before the Rebellion And that the said Wetherspin being served in Ireland with a Command Dated the 14. of Ianuary 1640. under the hand of the Speaker of the House of Commons of England at the instance of the said Sir Frederick he appeared heere in London 7. Aprill 1641. Where having attended the House to answer Sir Fredericks complaint vntill the 20. of September 1641. And not being able longer to stay bee returned into Ireland where the said Sir Frederick became his Iudge and Executioner as in this Answer is declared Note that since this Answer was sent into the Commons house of Parliament Sir William Cole received a Letter of the 8. of Ianuary 1644. written by one of the Captaines of his Regiment from Iniskillin certifying that about that time 40 Horse and 120 Foot of that Garrison fought with and routed 500 Foot and 3. Troopes of Horse of the Rebels conducted by Collonel Philip O Rely wherein they not onely rescued their owne Cattle which were Plundered by the Enemy but also killed 140 of them in the place and tooke 55. Prisoners whereof are Officers one Serjeant Major 3 Captaines two Lieutenants with divers Gentl●men and other Officers Whereby it appeares that neither the said Sir William or his Souldiers did any way correspond with the Rebels since the Cessation before

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 bloudy Rebels And for answer unto that expression wherewith the said Informer seems to conclude his Information by saying he could informe many other particular omissions and dis-services which the said Respondent hath cōmitted in this time of his imployment c. The Respondent saith that hee conceiveth the Informer meanes it by the scandalous calumnies and aspersions digested in fifteene places of that Pamphlet printed at London in An. Dom. 1643. wherein his Services are registred and wherein this Respondent and his Captaines Officers and Souldiers are most injuriously taxed with often reiterations of unworthy and meane cariage 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 doe further then to this Respondent would seeme fit for the good of the publique service especially when as at the same very times wch was long before the Cessation he was imployed about services of farre greater and better concernment in the Counties of Fermanagh Cavan Monaghan Tirone Donegall Letrim or Sligoe which hath formerly been well knowne both in Ireland and elsewhere And this Respondent further sheweth that immediatly after the said Cessation this Respondents Regiment destroyed 295 of the Rebels and famished many hundreds of them and also tooke in Rory mac Gwires Castle which is now preserved for the Parliaments use And afwell 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 spoyles gained from the Enemy untill that in his owne person hee guarded and conveyed great numbers of them towards London-derry where further care was taken for their reliefe by the good people there And saith also that he this Respondent was one of the first Collonels of the Brittish Regiments in Vlster which did imbrace and take the solemne League and Covenant which hee humbly conceives will not be deemed to be Omissions or Dis-services as the Informer tearmes them who since his comming hither hath not onely laboured to Defame the Respondent but also hath taxed the rest of the Collonels in Vlster for their Neglects in their service who in this Respondents opinion have done much better Service than either of them Yet did this Respondent severall times shew his desires in a most effectuall manner to helpe and relieve the said Informer for having received a pittifull Message from him about the 26 of Iuly 1642. That hee 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 Foure hundred Horse and Foot for his Reliefe with Orders that after they had releeved the Informer they should returne within 48 houres 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 Lieutenant Collonel came to the Informer with this Partie they found him not at all besieged nor in no such extremity as hee pretended but perceived hee sent this pressing Message onely to get some of the Respondents men with him to take in the Castle of Dromoheare which without Ordnance they could not have effected though being come at his importunity they attempted in conclusion to no other purpose then to destroy their Men Whereupon his Officers and Souldiers returned on the 29.th 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 Conaght 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 Sonne which the Respondent conceiving to be an act of Charity and Christianity consented unto expecting such civility as might bee answerable to so neighbourly an Office But both himselfe and those few Officers he carryed with him received such grosse disrcspect that he will not defile your eares with the hearing it Neverthelesse God having blest the Respondent in his journey with successe against the Enemy hee gave him for the reliefe of his Garrison Two hundred fifty nine Cowes There going with him in his Journey of their owne accord of the men belonging to his Garrison onely 38 Footmen and 12 Horse He moreover then bestowed upon his good Lady 1000 Sheepe and what he bestowed on those Gentlemen of his Ladies kindred and his Officers who went in a friendly manner with this Respondent the Jnformer suffered them not to enjoy but converted to his own use These civilities which this Respondent is most unwillingly drawne to mention he conceived might deserve more thankes and not to be himselfe and his Regiment exclaimed against by the Informer meerely to render him and them odious in all places where his tongue gets any credit In the time of Peace his carriage towards his neighbours was so full of contention that there was hardly any man of quality or worth neere him in the Province of Conaght 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 extreamely distastfull to men of all conditions that lived within 20 or 30 miles of him in that Province which will be evidenced by divers of his Neighbours of the best qualitie now in this Citie 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 decyphered in these two short insuing Letters Printed in the latter end of that Booke of his owne Services Page 57. viz. Sir Robert Hannay's Letter and other Protestants being Prisoners at Sligoe are sent to Dromaheare Castle Honourable Sir WEe the undernamed persons having suffered in all our whole Estates and being upon our banishment out of this Kingdome under the safe conduct of Master Edmond Bourke of Ragagh and Master Walter Bourke of Ardagh towards the North but most opposed at Castle-Coner Eniscromme Escagh-bridge Downeill Arnaglasse and Tomler goe by severall bands of armed men purposely to set for our lives were not there extreame violence suppressed by the discretion worth and care of those two Gentlemen and we taken Prisoners by the MacSwines brought before O Coner-Sligoe where we now remain and intended to be sent to the Castle of Dromaheare to be kept untill you Sir deliver sach Prisoners of the O Roirkes and others as you have in your eustody or to be dealt with as you doe unto them Sir you are Nobly disposed so that in honour we hope the meanes of reliefe being in your selfe you will not suffer us to perish who