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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

owne mutuall accords have ever since the Informer left those parts lived in better amitie then ever they did or could doe whilest he continued there amongst them Neverthelesse this Respondent sayeth that by reason of that impediment offered by the Informers Souldiers as aforesaid this Respondent and his soulders lost the benefit of that bargaine to the great prejudice of that Garrison And sayeth further that the Informer or his Officers received into his Protection by what authority this Respondent could never yet understand one Owin or Iames Mac Murrey Margaret Ny Cabe and sundry other Rebels of the County of Letrym and kept them and their goods upon his owne Lands of Glanfear●e neere 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 sixt Article this Respondent denyeth that ever hee corresponded with the Rebels as by the said Informer is therein suggested but sayth that by vertue of the aforesaid Commission from the Lords Iustices and Councell of Ireland he did receive into Protection one Bryan mac Coconaght mac Gwire Esquire with 40 or 50 of his friends Servants and Tenants who had some Goods of their owne to live opon 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 vizt. First for that upon the 21.th of October 1641. hee discovered unto this Respondent by Flartagh mac Hugh afore-named the purpose of the Irish to rise into Rebellion upon Friday and Saturday the 22. and 23.th of October aforesaid advising him and all the English and Scottish Protestants in the Towne 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 bloudy Massacre thereabouts Secondly for that the said Bryan did refuse to joyne in any Action with the Rebels denying to enter into their Oathes of Confederacy and association against the Protestants for which hee was in great danger to be cut off by them Thirdly for that he preserved under his own Protection divers of the British 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 Bettic many others Fourthly for that by receiving him being an eminent man of Vlster and allyed 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 acter did abundantly advantage and further the publique Service Fiftly for that in further Evidence of his loyaltie to the English Crowne and Government hee presented a Letter unto this Respondent which came unto him from Owin mac Artt O Neille Vncle of the Lord Magwire and Generall of the Rebels in Vlster who lately before arived in Ireland with Men Armes and Ammunition out of West Flanders which Letter is as followeth viz. To our loving and deere Cozen Bryan mac Coconaght Magwire Loving Cozen KNow that I am arrived at this Harbour nine or ten dayes past whether I sent before me asmuch Ammnuition as J deemed needfull to answer the Necessity of this Country and that I have heere now Men and Provisions such as by the leave of God will give great Comfort and succour unto this whole Kingdome But beloved Cozen I am given to understand that notwithstanding your sufferance and distresse you are abundantly inclined to side with the English Nation which indeed doth exceedingly grieve me Wherefore I will have you from henceforth as you tender your owne good to banish those thoughts out of your mind and not to pursue those Resolutions which in the end may be the occasion of your owne Destruction as I thinke it will be to all those whose minds will appeare contrary to ours let these suffice with the addage of many salutes unto you from Castle-Doe the 18.th of July 1642. Your affectionate Kinsman Signed Owen O Nersle 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 publique Service whereof this Respondent made report by his Letters unto Sir William Parson● and Sir Iohn Burlase then Lords Iustices of Ireland and the Councell there to whom hee 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 signifie unto this Hon Parliament the affection and service of the said Bryan with their desires in his behalfe that hee 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 Necre unto which Garrison hee remaines loyall even at this time but in a most miserable condition for want of Necessaries And this Respondent denyeth 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 surmized 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 aswell for Spyes and Guids as by killing and destroying the Enemy as effectually as others did And for ought knowne to 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 turne to the Rebels againe as is surmized but some few that did leaving their Pledge which they gave for assurance of their loyaltie in Prison at Jniskillin 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 Iericho for saving the two Spyes of Ioshua so this Hon Parliament will be pleased to thinke 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

Respondent saith that he heard that by vertue of such Order of the State the said Castle was restored unto him and that hee keepes it as the rest of the Brittish Forces in Conaght doth their Holds for the Parliament service For upon the 25.th of March last past as this Respondent hath been informed The said Parck his Souldiers of Newtowne with the Informers Souldiers did spoyle and prey the Rebels at Dromaheare within six miles of Castle-hamilton and two miles of Master Parcks Castle of Newtowne so as the Informers alogation 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 Conaght is meerely 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 worke his malice against him and on the otherside to bring the said Master Parck into the displeasure of the Parliament whereby he may make way to gaine his Estate And this Respondent further saith that hee 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 hee 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 concerne 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 heere 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 Abbertromy Esquire a Protestant and principall undertaker in that Plantation and sometimes high Sheriffe 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 himselfe and also unto his Father in law Sir Iohn Dunbarre Knight and Iames Dunbarre Esquire his brother in law not suffering any to wash his linnen but was necessitated with his owne hands to wash his shirts in his owne Vrine And at length being set at liberty the poore Gentleman with his wife and children came in great want of all necessaries to Iniskillin to this Respondent who used meanes to releeve them untill he conveyed them towards his native Country of Scotland And further this Respondent saith that as he hath been credibly Informed by divers honest Protestants who well knew the Informers evill carriages to those that were under his command and more especially to the Protestants that fled from Sir Iohn Dunbarres Iron workes to his house for safeguard of their lives the Informer compelled many of them without sending guards or convoyes with them to depart from his Garrison insomuch as by their endeavouring to travell 20 miles over Mountainous wayes towards Iniskillin many of them were murthered in their journey by the Rebels And in particular twelve or fourteene 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 Iniskillin and others of them dispersedly dwelling amongst other Reglments in Vlster and elsewhere V. 5. 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 Jreland nor whether he was declared an Enemy to the Parliament not did he heare any other then that he was gracious and acceptable unto the Parliament untill this Respondent was now upon his journey to London and sayeth 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 Iohn Borlace then Lords Iustices of Ireland and the Councell there did upon the 29 of Iannuary 1643 or thereabouts receive Tirlagh Og Mac Gawran and some followers of his being Inhabitants of the Barony of Tallag●aph in the County of Cavan together with their goods into protection appoynting them some quarters to dwell and grase upon neere Iniskillin untill directions to the contrary should come from the Parliament and that upon agreement that they should pay 70. I. in Money or Victuals by a time limited towards the better subsistance of the Soulders of this Respondents Regiment for the preserving of that Garrison whose provisions being then neere spent had no hopes to be supplyed 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 remaine in Prison at Iniskillin in pledge aswell 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 comming tothe 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 Victualls in their Garrison and although they would forbeare to kill them for so farre they agreed to the said Protection yet they would and must borrow some Cowes from them upon ticket to be payed by the State out of their entertainment and thereupon tooke from them 3 or 400 Cowes whereof their Officers at Mannor-hamilton upon the mediation of the Respondents Lievtenant Collonel caused the greatest part to be restored againe 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 Iustices 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 refidue of the said goods unto the owners but withall required better correspondencie to be observed for the future betweene the Officers and Souldiers of the Informer and those of Jniskillin and not to clash or jarre betweene themselves but whether the said latter Order was obeyed as touching the restitution of the said Goods this Respondent knoweth not and sayeth that the Officers and Souldiers of the said Garrisons not in obedience to that Order but of their