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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

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

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

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

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

to make him appear the late Earl of Strafford and the late Lord Viscount Rannellagh and then Lord Precedent of the Province of Conaught this Repliants mortall enemies and who had then both the means and power in their hands to have discovered and punished this Repliant to the outmost and who put forth all their strength to have crusht and undone him if they could must in all this time assuredly have brought to light the particulars of the Repliants misdemeanours with which the Respondent maketh so great a noise which is a meer sound and nothing else And this Repliant faith That untill he found the Respondents intentions so maliciously declared in those his answers towards him he never apprehended That the Respondent intended any complaint against him as having no cause And it had been strange That this Repliant should have desired as is most untruely suggested a reconciliation with one whom he never offended and who had been many times solicited by divers Gentlemen of worth both in Scotland and since he came into England for a reconciliation with the Repliant as is well known to these severall Gentlemen still in Town much wondering how the seared conscience of the Respondent can serve him to alledge such notorious known untruths But this his assertion That the Repliant should desire the Respondent to have concealed that which was never thought or acted is so palpable grosse and imaginary that in it self it appears to any impartiall Reader but meer recrimination which had never been heard off if not occasioned by this Repliants Charge put in against him for his severall misdemeanours which this Repliant professeth was not done out of any hurt intended to his person but in zeal to the Publike safety and the desires he hath and ever shall have to serve this Cause and Common-Wealth and to the discovery whereof he findes himself more particularly oblieged by the late solemn League and Covenant And as touching the Respondents comparison and likening of this Repliant unto Sir George Pawlet mentioned in his Answer being a man dead many yeers ago which argueth much base bitternesse to proceed from the mouth or pen of one in the Respondents yeers So as comparisons are odious in themselves and that it is both uncharitable and unworthily done to knock at a dead mans grave who in his life time was esteemed a man of eminency and worth and of another kinde of degree and quality then the Respondent who dares thus kick at him being dead which sheweth more weaknesse malice and spleen then otherwise could have been imagined in the man called Sir William Cole so much blazed thorow the Citie for his Hypocriticall goodnesse hoping after this whosoever shall reade this passage in his famous vindicating History will alter their opinion of the man hereafter and because it hath received a satisfactory Answer herein before this Repliant will passe it by and impute it to the infirmity of his doting dayes or as misled to it by other like minded that dare not appear in it themselves And as to that his impudent and shamefull close of all his malicious invectives which he terms pertinent instances and reasons for to induce the Parliament not to put the Government of London-Derry upon this Repliant wherein he pleaseth himself to term those certain informations given in against Colonell Mervin the Major of London-Derry and the rest to be aspersions and invented and contrived by this Repliant and his instruments of purpose to make them detestable to the Parliament This Repliant faith That forasmuch as all the same matter and much more and worse then hath yet been alledged against them is well known and manifest unto the Honourable Committee of both Kingdoms to be proved under their own hand writings and further to be attested against them upon all occasions this Repliant will be further silent in it and will not weary out your patience with making any further reply unto it But all that hath gone before doth humbly pray you to observe that the Respondent upon the matter hath confessed all the Charges given in against him by this Repliant and have made no manner of defence under correction that doth in the least cleer him of the crimes and misdemeanours laid unto his charge That he hath through his whole Answer infinitly abused and traduced this Repliant with unsufferable scandals and reproaches the most of them couched under generalls which imply nothing but abuses some of them also being matters concerning his own personall behaviour in the Government of his own Family and Commands some concerning his Neighbour-hood and in the mannaging of his own Estate and in nothing that concerns the Publike nor in any thing that hath relation to the damage or detriment of the Common-Wealth in case they had been true as they are most notoriously false And therefore this Repliant humbly craveth repair against him for these intollerable wrongs and injuries done him in these his relations it being under favour against the common course and practise of inferiour Judicatories That an offender once accused and charged with any wrong done to the Common-Wealth should be admitted to recriminate any thing in his Answer against the prosecutor untill he hath first purged himself of things whereof he stands accused much lesse to Print and Publish the same by way of Anticipation of Justice while as the matter dependeth unheard by the Honourable House of Commons And he humbly prayeth it may be remembered though one Micaiah suffered for prophesying the truth against some hundreds of the Court Parasits of the King of Israel Yet when he was smote between the Joynts of his Harnesse in Ramoth Gilead that he died The Prophet was found to have told the truth albeit it was too late for the King to repent him of his unbelief A Copy of the Lord Lievtenant and Councell of Ireland Their Letter procured by Sir William Cole against the Garrison at Castle-Hammilton for breaking of the CESSATION AFter our hearty commendations We the Lord Lievtenant and Councell have lately understood by Letters from Sir William Cole Knight The Souldiers Garrisoned at Castle-Hammilton in Conaught came out of that Province and went to the Largin in the Province of Ulster and there in hostile manner preyed and took away on the first of February four or five hundred Cows in the day time from Torilagh oge mac Gawran and other protected by Sir William Cole upon composition made by them to contribute towards the support of the Regiment commanded by the said Sir William That by that spoil so committed on these men the Garrison of Iniskillin is exceedingly injured and are like to suffer much prejudice That albeit he sent his Lievtenant Colonell with his Letters to require restitution of these Cattle to the owners from you the Lievtenant of Sir Frederick Hammiltons Company to whom he also sent the Letters of this Board of the 15. of December directed to him inabling him to agree with such of the