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A remonstrance of Sir Frederick Hammilton, knight and colonell To the right honourable the committee of both kingdoms.
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Hamilton, Frederick, Sir, fl. 1645.
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1643
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The Humble REMONSTRANCE OF Sir Frederick Hammilton Knight and Colonell TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE COMMITTEE OF BOTH KINGDOMS I Have served King JAMES and King CHARLS neer this thirty yeer in their Court as a Gentleman of their Privy Chamber without Pension or Monopoly and for most of that time I have had a Command in the Old Army in Ireland King JAMES having in his life time conferred upon me the Troop of Horse with the Foot Company and the Government of Carrickfergus which were Commanded by the old Lord Chichester Afterwards I levied a Regiment of Foot and was with Honourable Recommendations imployed by His Majestie into Germany where I served some yeers under the glorious and victorious Prince the King of Sweden returning with His Royall Recommendations and good acceptance of my Services witnessed with His Princely Tokens bestowed upon me At my return it hath been heard of what hard measure I met withall in Ireland by the power and greatnesse of the late Earl of Strafford whose designe was apparent the ruine of my Honour and Fortune if the Lord had not of his great Mercy inabled me with courage to stand for my innocency for the defence of both Since this horrid Rebellion how I have been ingaged with a poor handfull of men and what wonderfull things God hath done for us and with us is not unknown to my greatest Enemies though they call me a bragger After it pleased God to inable me to bring off my Wife and Children from the great miseries they suffered without any comfort or relief leaving my Castle and Garrison in the best condition I could procuring the Souldiers leave to apply my self hither with hopes of better preferment for my self and speedy relief for them Coming to London-Derry where I had some Fortune left me by my Wifes Father Sir John Vaughan who died Governour of the said Citie I found that means he left me and all my Tenants incroached upon by the Regiments there who had taken of me and my Tenants to the value of three thousand pounds Notwithstanding the severall reliefs they received both from England and Scotland besides the great sums they have got of other mens Lands and the severall great Preyes hath been got amongst them since this Rebellion Finding my self so used by them and not able to Command my own Rents and Tenants having been as active in the Service as any Colonell amongst them and the means of keeping them so free from the incursion of the Rebels out of Connaught Did think in Honour and Justice my own Lands and Tenants undestroyed should have been laid off for my own quarters and maintenance but finding neglect and hard-heartednesse amongst them I was forced to apply my self to my Noble Friends in Scotland who were pleased to take my hard condition and great charge into their Honourable and Charitable Care and Consideration and to appoint me the Command of a Regiment of Horse there untill they could be the instruments of procuring me from the Honourable Parliament here some greater power and preferment for the better inabling me to go on with the Service there in Ireland I being in Scotland news was brought to the Committee of Estates there of the dangerous discontented condition of their Army in Ireland neer Carrickfergus and how through want of means they were necessitated to joyn themselves in a dangerous Oath to stick to one another in applying themselves towards the Parliament of England for performance of what was promised them Which miserable extremity of theirs the State of Scotland indeavoured to relieve and suppresse so long as they could untill at length two or three Regiments did forsake that Kingdom as the rest intended to the no small hazard of all the three Kingdoms had not the State of Scotland out of their judicious care made use of me and Sir Mungoe Campbell a Colonell of that Army whom they sent with instructions to indeavour the appeasing of their discontents and to perswade the rest of the Regiments not to abandon that Kingdom and to leave it into the hands of the Rebels who at that time were apparently in a readinesse to have entered upon the Countrey so soon as the Scots Army had forsaken it being confident as many others were that no perswasions could alter their resolutions from going Neverthelesse it pleased God beyond expectation so to blesse our indeavours and instructions as we prevailed with them and our words were taken for a time to stay untill the State of Scotland were advertised with what we had undertaken for in their names should be speedily sent them from Scotland which accordingly was performed notwithstanding their own great burdens at that time I was afterwards the immediate instrument and best help to the Ministers who were intrusted with the Solemn League and Covenant to get it taken by the Citizens of London-Derry the Regiments and Countrey thereabouts who will confesse that without me it had not so easily past if at all at that time Notwithstanding all these pretences and services besides the severall Recommendations of the Parliament and Committee of Estates in Scotland have I waited here neer this eight moneths in expectation of some course to be taken with me for the recompence of my past Services and incouragements to go on and as yet have met with neither Therefore prayeth leave to inform what danger I apprehend will follow to the Publike Service if I shall be thus neglected and discountenanced for my faithfull Services If Sir Charls Coote a young Gentleman whose hopefull expectation I will not except against what the Parliament shall think fin to confer upon him so as his preferment do not intrench upon the prejudice of the Publike Service or upon my Honour and Interest wherein I conceive both will suffer if the resolution hold as is reported to make him Lord Precedent of Connaught And what content it will be to the Rebels when they shall hear my Services against them hath been so rewarded as not onely the Counties of Sligoe and Leitrim which God hath inabled me to do so great Service in since this Rebellion without the help of Sir Charls Coote who must by this Title injoy the fruits of my Labour as also be Commander of my own Castle and Garrison and such well deserving Souldiers in it as hath served neer this six yeers without means but out of my own Fortune hath maintained Officers and Souldiers there being neer 6000. pounds in Arrear due to me And having lost as great a Fortune in that Kingdom in Stock and Rent as any here hath What such hard usage may produce and what dishonour this will be to me to have another put over my head with the charge of those two Counties wherewith I was at the beginning of this Rebellion intrusted by Warrant and Commission from the Lords Justices and Councell of that Kingdom to raise and Command what numbers of men I thought fit for the Service and now to be turned out of this trust after all my long Service great losse and sufferings unquestioned for any misdemeanours or neglect in that Charge I humbly submit to your Honours Judicious Wisdoms Tendering to your further considerations my weak opinion out of my knowledge and experience of the Countrey and out of my faithfull zeal for the advancement of the Service what I hold fittest for the present to be done concerning Connaught That according as I joyned in a Paper with Sir Charls Coote mentioning the way we intended to prosecute the War there We may be inabled with equall power to help one another as we shall stand in need and that I may be trusted onely with those two Counties with what proportion of the Supplies shall be thought fitting for me to make use of That Sir Charls Coote may Command the rest of the whole Province consisting of four Counties which he may the easier deal withall I taking charge of the other two which I have so long served for and it were hard measure if not injustice to turn me out of the Province and out of my own house with disgrace which must be no otherwise if he must be Lord Precedent of Connaught yet rather then I should in any way appear in opposition to the Parliaments pleasure if it were not to informe them of the conveniences and dangers which may concern their own services I should choose to forsake all Consider likewise that Sir Charles Cootes House and Being is so far remote from Sligoe and those parts in Leitrim wherein I live as with no conveniency can he do Service there without neglecting the Countrey where he lives being neer fifty miles distant If the Parliament be resolved not to give ear or credit to my opinion or advice let me have my Arrears and contentment for my house and interrest in that Province and dispose of me elsewhere at their pleasure Frederick Hammilton FINIS