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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

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

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 Printed Anno Dom. 1645. To the Impartiall READER HE that doth most Service when he hath least encouragement shews his principles to be Noble and that he least intends himself and if his more particular imployment chance to expire with his attendance it may weaken his fortune but cannot impair his credit It is unfaithfulnesse that onely makes a man to be used too long whiles he that hath really done his part need not to repine though men of weaker abilities have better fortune Thus it is task enough for great spirits to be patient when they finde themselves neglected for doing Service and in such a case to keep humble and contented well knowing that at a low water there is time to mend the Banks aad whiles the Ship is in the Harbour it may be dressed and trimed and made able to endure rough Seas and Tempests I must confesse it is not the first time I have had to do with men of the same rank and condition which the ensuing discourse hath brought upon the Stage not occasioned by any desire of mine for I am inforced to this Vindication of my self or must have lyen under those base aspersions which no other then a son of him that ruleth in the Ayr could without shame and blushing have published to the World but his boldnesse herein I doubt not but will appear to be void both of Counsell and Religion his dishonesty sufficiently shewing his dishonour and pusilanimity for a magnanimous man will be just but such favourites will be slaves at last who to advance themselves will inthrall their posterity betray their Countrey abuse their friends and by an intollerable basenesse and brutish demeanour traduce those that stand next in the way of their preferments whose timorousnesse commonly for want of courage and judgement makes them so suspitious that they raise jealousies and preoccupate evils never plotted any where but in their own Immaginations to which they are led by prejudicate opinions and unwarrantable fancies and such Beasts as these do usually run under great Trees in a storm for shelter and protection where they leave nothing but dung and filth behinde them for their standing when the Tempest is once over You may perceive it hath been my zeal and not too much officiousnesse as some would have it that hath carried me on unto this undertaking with which if you shall consider the Injunctions of State laid upon me how could I have done lesse if not to have muzled my Conscience and sown up my Lips to all relation whatsoever I confesse he that dischargeth his duty though be doth not deserve thanks yet he meriteth encouragement and not discountenance for his endeavour but he that at any time shall over act his part be too forward for his Countreys good be it never so advantagious to the Publike shall many times be thought more precise then wise peradventure be accounted but a mad man for his labour Envy will not want wayes and means to vent it self against the innocent I have not yet throughly understood it to be an offence to use the sword with the most keen and sharpest edge against a cruell and bloody Rebell Yet I have sometimes heard of a Milk-sop set up in the stead of a Joshua but then it was to do the enemy a good turn and that with more security they might make spoil and havock of their Adversaries Thus some man may with more safety steal a Horse then another man may look over the Hedge And if this mans sufferings be concluded for an Argument of his guilt or that it be a warrantable proceeding to condemn him upon no better ground and evidence then his adversaries accusation I see not who can be safe or free in this world but Justice layes the Gold to the Touchstone and findes out the counterfeit Mettall and esteems of both according to their value Let the Cosk then have the Barley Kernell let the Lapidary take the Jewell that knows the price and value of it And I beseech you judge of me as you shall finde the truth for to appear in that which follows wherein I have dealt freely and cleerly and desire to be interpreted as the whole shall hold out unto you the matter to be resolved for him to live or die in your opinion that strives to be yet a more lover of his Countrey and to shew himself zealous and faithfull in all his undertakings and more particularly in this Cause and Covenant F. H. A COPY of the ORDER by Vertue whereof Sir Frederick Hamilton exhibited Articles against Sir William Cole and others Die Lunae 23. Decemb. 1644. At the Committee of both Kingdoms at Derby House Ordered THat Sr Frederick Hammilton be desired that if he hath any thing that he can inform this Committee of concerning any miscarriage of any persons in the Service of the Parliament in Ireland That he will give it in to the Committee in Writing on Thursday next in the Afternoon By Command of the Committee Gualter Frost Secretary to the same Committee To the Right Honourable the Lords and others the Committee of both Kingdoms The Information of Sir Frederick Hammilton Knight and Colonell against Sir William Cole Knight Shewing FIrst That the said Sir William Cole had notice of the intended Plots of the Irish to break out into Rebellion above a fortnight before the Rebels took up Arms as it is generally given out in Ireland and yet did neither timely inform the State nor his Neighbours for to prevent the mischief and to defend themselves II. That having a Commission from His Majestie to be a Colonell onely of five Companies of Foot he notwithstanding taketh on nine Companies making them beleeve as if he had Commission for a thousand And when he had made use of their Service neer a yeer and a half when Provisions were sent him by the Parliament whereof they expected a share he cashier'd four of the most deserving Captains and their Companies of purpose to gain all the said Provisions to himself and his Son in law Dea● Barkley who was his Agent to the Parliament for those Provisions III. About the beginning of the Rebellion there were two English Papists whose Sirnames were Hetherington who joyned themselves with the Rebels and plundered one Serjeant Abrels house a Tenant unto Sir Frederick and afterwards burned the House which was certified to Sir William Cole by Sir Frederick with the Depositions of certain witnesses proving the same fact And it was desired

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

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

have prevented their wicked designe and disheartned the rest of their accomplices through the Kingdom to have proceeded nor can the Respondent pretend any want of force to have inabled him in this action the Kings High Sheriff of that County living within five miles to him who being an active able Gentleman could in a very short time have raised for his assistance the power of the whole Brittish had he been timely advertised as properly he ought to have been So that for the Respondent thus to sit still in his own Castle and to betray all his Neighbours untill the very night before this bloody Rebellion broke out and then to write Letters as he alleageth to warn his Neighbours and Tenants of this evill to come who should have been all in Arms and apprehending the Conspirators long before Whether the Respondent performed the Office of a faithfull Magistrate or the Duty and Courage of a Judicious Commander or the Care and Providence of a good Neighbour and Faithfull Subject this Repliant leaveth it to your Judicious Considerations And is verily perswaded That if the Respondent had timely delivered but Arms to so many men as he alleageth to have sent Letters and to have gone in the head of them against those Rebels he might have done more good service for the safety of the Publike his Neighbours and Tenants then all the Rhetorick he used in his Letters to warn and admonish them of this danger But his chief care appeared the safety of himself at home in his Castle to man and secure that place where much ado there was as the Repliant hath been informed to perswade the Respondent for all his Regiment in six moneths time to set his Nose out of that Castle untill the greatest sury of the Rebels was past and afterwards for catching of Cows and such like plundering imployment he proved very active And that this Repliant being from home as the Respondent relateth that he was and in this case should be advertised by the Respondent That there was intended such an Insurrection it is much like his other assertion That this Repliant herein doth want matter justly to accuse him as he hath informed For certain it is this Repliant never received Letter or advertisment from him though he knew the Repliant to command the next Garrison to him which it pleased God miraculously to preserve untill this Repliant with no small hazard returned amongst them at which time he did not delay venturing a Messenger with a kinde Letter to the Respondent whose answer to the Repliants Letter followeth Honourable Sir YOur zeal to His Majesties service the common good and care of us in particular expressed in your Letter of the 29. of this instant October hath added comfort and courage to us your friends and fellow Souldiers who do conceive that our fears are greater as you alleage then cause requireth for if the Scots and English had unanimously united their Forces at the first we had been able not onely to have made head against the enemy but also erre now to have been Master of the Field But their policy in giving out that their Commission was to destroy the English and to spare the Scots hath so prevailed with some of the more ignorant sort of that Nation that they withdraw their assistance from us which as it could not but dishearten us a little so the enemy hath made advantage thereof But the Sheriff of our County Master Adam Cathcart and the rest of his neighbours by giving us two visits with a good Troop of Horse with promise of Assistance hath removed those jealousies to which your worthy actions hath added a greater luster in so much that I make no question that if a man of your eminency and worth of that nation would but once shew themselves in the Field it would not onely turn the Councell of the Achitophell into foolishnesse but the Scots and English in those and all other parts would resort together in such Troops That we should be able to bid them Battle for we are I thank God above 200. strong in the Castle and Town of Iniskillin which is as yet safe and our Scotch Neighbours are as many in Foot and Horse Therefore I think it the best way to finde them out and not to keep asunder thus in our strong Holds for my own part I do verily beleeve that they are far short of those numbers and Ammunition they give out except they reckon Boyes and Calloghes But the worst is we have little intelligence but what we have from themselves who questionlesse will make the best of all things and the worst for us As for Dublin I hope it is not taken whither I sent a Messenger on Saturday last with Letters to the State whereof I have sent you here inclosed Cavan we hear holds out being strengthned with a Troop of Horse that lay at Turbbet Captain Atkinson upon what promises I know not hath yeelded up his Castle to Bryan mac Gwire without any resistance and is with him and so have all the strong holds of this County except this of Iniskillin Tully Mo●ea which we hope with Gods help and the assistance of our friends to defend in spight of our enemy But they have got all the Goods and Ammunition of the whole County into their possession And though the Plot be Generall as the Irish give out yet there is not so much severity used in any part of the Kingdom as in this County So giving you many thanks for your good intelligence which I intreat you upon all occasions continue with assurance that you shall receive the like from me As also the contents of your Letter conveyed to the Lords Justices with all convenient speed with the tender of my Service to your self and Honourable Lady I commit you and all of us to the safe protection of the Almighty I rest Your true friend and servant William Cole Iniskillin Castle the 2. of October 1641. Together with this Answer the Repliant received a Letter signed by the forementioned Captain Adam Cathcart then High Sheriff Captain William Acheson now Lievtenant Colonell to the Respondent Who by that Letter offered themselves with their severall Companies which they then Commanded to put themselves under the Command of this Repliant refusing to take on with Sir William Cole at all But this Repliant otherwise advised them for the safety of their own Countrey that they should joyn themselves with Sir William Cole hoping to have found him a more faithfull Neighbour then he proved Some few dayes after this Letter received Captain Hugh Rosse having formerly been Chirurgion for severall yeers to the Repliants Foot Company brought with him to the Repliants Garrison at Mannor-Hammilton Captain George Greir who had with them two able Companies of the Repliants Countrymen who were come a purpose to tender their service unto him who had much ado to perswade them to return or have any medling at all with Sir

upon the rumour of this Rebellion the Deponant being then at Sligoe went to Master Parcks with whom he remained in his Castle and being there about the 20. of January last being in Bed This Deponant heard that there was three or four Captains riding in haste by the Castle and that they had a compliment to Master Parck of their love and service and that they were going to Camp at Mannor-Hammilton the Deponant being asked what men as he thought was then in the Castle the Deponant thinketh neer betwixt fifty and sixty and denieth to have heard of any motion for stoping or following of them which pretended to go to the Camp at Mannor-Hammilton And further deposeth That at the same time as Lievtenant Lesly was sent with a party to have relieved Master Parck being then as was reported beset with the Rebels the Countrey being observed to be gathering together to prevent the Lievtenant and the parties return This Deponant heard it mentioned to Master Parck but by whom he cannot tell that the Drum should beat and that twenty or thirty of his men should go along as a guard to help the Lievtenant and the party which motion was prest by divers but Master Parck would not yeeld to it And further deposeth That one Roger Guise told this Deponant that he had received a Box on the ear from an Irish footman of Master Parcks for speaking against Owen O Roirk who was said to be killed when they were camping neer the Church of Clanclare And further deposeth He heard that Serjeant Heath and Roger Smith upon their return from Mannor-Hammilton delivered a message to Master Parck that he should apprehend Mullmory O Diggennan and send him to Mannor-Hammilton otherwise Sir Frederick would hold him as a Traitor The Depositions of Connor O Fynny taken the 13. of January 1642. WHo deposeth That upon the Tuesday or Wednesday before Easter last the Rogues of the County of Sligoe and Letrim lying their incampt neer Mannor-Hammilton Castle the Deponant was sent for by his Master Master Parck of Newtown and commanded him to carry a Linnen Bag with him with some things in it along in his Company with one Teage Reagh O Gillgan a Tenant to Andrew Crean dwelling at a Village called Curvulagh on the way neer Sligoe and as he went from his Master he met the party Teage O Gillgan at the Gate with whom the Deponant was commanded to go to his house and there to have left the Bag and to have brought to his Master from thence an example of some Malt but as the Deponant was going he was commanded within lesse then a quarter of a mile to the Newtown the Deponant was taken by half a score of Rogues calling themselves Souldiers to Donnell O Connor they taking the Bag from the Deponant threatning to carry him to Mannor-Hammilton Camp to their Colonels where he should be hanged but by the perswasion of Teage O Gillgan they meddled not with the Bag but carried this Deponant a little way off where they met with the two Captains Captain John O Crean and Captain Donnell O Connor who by the perswasion of Teage O Gillgan suffered this Deponant to return to his Master after promise made by him that he should return to them the next day having got his Cloaths and that he should bring a peece with him being demanded whether there was Money or Plate in the Bag by the vertue of his oath deposeth That he could not say what was in it for he never opened it but faith so soon as the Captains came the Bag was delivered to the party in his Company as Master Parck had appointed and that by the command of the two Captains and the Deponant sent home to his Master without further harme who when he came to his Master telling what had befaln him his Master asked how he escaped saying that he was glad he so escaped without any more harme the Deponant not being from him above three or four hours and asking what became of the Bag the Deponant told him the party had received it by the Captains command whom he sent it to And further saith That he was told that day by the Rogues that the Sunday before they had carried away fifteen or sixteen of Sir Frederick Hammiltons Horses and that before Sunday next they were sure to have his Castle Bidding the Deponant tell Master Parck to yeeld his Castle otherwise they had a Peece of Ordnance and would beat it about his ears when they came from Mannor-Hammilton whether that day the Deponant saw the Rogues flocking towards the Camp in severall numbers as if they had been going to a Fair being asked whether or not to the Deponants knowledge Teage Reagh O Gillgan had spoken with his Master that morning he received the Bag or not to which question the Deponant faith He doth not know he meeting him at the Gate The Copy of a Certificate given under the hands of severall Gentlemen at the desire of Sir Frederick Hammilton Dated 14. of January 1642. WE the undernamed persons do hereby acknowledge to have been present by the desire of Sir Frederick Hammilton Knight and Colonell while as he read the severall Depositions of Benjamin Alexander Rice Jones Thomas Jones Roger Smith William Parkenson William Morray William Bryan Dermond Offerry and George Heath concerning Master Robert Parck of Newtown being personally present there himself at the reading of the foresaid Depositions where the severall Deponants did in all our hearings acknowledge the Depositions to be the same which upon oath they had deponed formerly before the said Sir Frederick And thus much we have thought fit to certifie under our hands being desired so to do least hereafter any of the said former Witnesses should miscarry to the prejudice of His Majesties future Service which accordingly we have done As witnesse our severall hands hereunto set the day and yeer aforesaid William Lesly Lievtenant John Long Preacher John Cunningham Preacher Alex. Mountgumery Preacher Robert Sidney James Vaughan Lievtenant David Greere John Baxton The Copy of a Letter from the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland AFter our very hearty Commendations on the 21. of this Moneth We received your Letters of the 19. of November and second of December and do acknowledge to you with speciall thanks your good indeavours in those parts and although we cannot yet send you relief as we desire yet we are assured that in short time we shall be inabled to do it There are arrived here this day fourteen hundred men sent us forth of England and further powerfull succours are in the way a coming whom we expect to arrive ere long and with them will come plentifull store of Arms whereby we shall be the better inabled to supply those parts as we much desire to do In the mean time we think fit that you reinforce the Foot-Company under your Command so as they may consist of a hundred men and to Arm them the best way you can untill by the coming of the supply of Arms we expect we may be inabled to send Arms for them which yet we cannot do with safety if we had Arms here untill by the strength of His Majesties Army we shall cleer the passages thither which by Gods help we doubt not in short time to do And so we bid you heartily farewell From His Majesties Castle of Dublin 30. Decemb. 1641. We send you here inclosed a Commission for prosecution of the Rebels with power of Martiall Law Ormond Assery Will. Parsons Joh. Borlasse Cha. Lambard Adam Loftus Joh. Temple William Parsons Joh. Borlasse By the Lords Justices and Councell TRusty and Welbeloved We greet you well We having entred into a serious consideration of the most Rebellious Insurrections of divers false Traitors in the Province of Vlster and elsewhere in this Kingdom and of the most wicked inclination of many unnaturall men inhabiting upon the severall Borders of Vlster and elsewhere who have already begun in the action of the most Rebellious conspiracies now on foot threatning a generall destruction to all His Majesties good Subjects of this Kingdom To cut off the said detestable offenders and to prevent the devastation and spoil of His Majesties good People We therefore thought fit and so do Ordain Require and Authorise you to make diligent search and inquiry throughout the Counties of Letrim and Sligoe and the Borders adjoyning thereunto for all Traitors and Traiterous persons above mentioned and their adherents And them to apprehend and duely examine concerning their Traiterous actions And if you shall finde any person or persons that have committed or joyned in any of the said actions to proceed with him or them in the course of Martiall Law by hanging him or them till he or they be dead as hath been accustomed in time of open Rebellion as your conscience and discretion shall guide you therein And for the better execution of this Our Commission We do hereby Authorize you to raise such numbers of men of those Counties for your assistance as you shall think fit and to take Meat and Drink not exceeding the value of six pence per diem each man during the service onely And we straightly Command the Sheriffs of the said Counties for the time being and all other Officers Ministers and loving Subjects to whom it may appertain To be unto you in the due execution hereof alwayes ayding helping and assisting whensoever they shall be required by you as they shall answer the contrary at their uttermost perils And that this Our Commission shall continue during Our pleasure onely As for your so doing as aforesaid This shall be your sufficient Warrant Given at His Majesties Castle of Dublin 30. Decemb. 1641. To Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir Frederick Hammilton Knight Ormond Assery Cha. Lambard Ada. Loftus Joh. Temple FINIS