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

will ever remaine Sir Yours truly obliged to serve you Signed Robert Hannay Andrew Adare Alexander Mountgomorie William Liston Thomas Fullerton These be the names and number of the Prisoners Sir Robert Hannay his Lady his two Daughters two Boyes two men and a gentlewoman Master Andrew Adare and his wife and Sisters Son Master Alexander Mountgomerie his wife and eldest sonne Master William Liston his Wife and Daughter Master Thomas Fullerton and his Wife Patrick Deomand Mr. Adares man Sir after the writing of this Letter we are brought to Dromaheare Castle and Order left with the Captaine to bring us unto the Camp at Mannor-hamilton where we must suffer death if those Prisoners with you be not delivered Sir Frederick Hamiltons Answer to the Letter afore-mentioned SIR I have received your Letter whereby I am given to understand of your treacherous surprisal notwithstanding of your safe conduct promised for the which I am very sorry But such is the trecherous falshood of those disloyal Traytors generally throughout this whole Kingdome that both made me Vow and sweare in the presence of Almighty God that I will never give or take quarter with them or any of them yea though my own Sons that discended from my loynes were in your estate I had rather they should dye gloriously for the cause of Christ then I should so abase my selfe as to deale with such Traytors to God and his Majesty Thus beseeching God Almighty to strengthen and incourage you that you may continue constant untill it shall please God to give you deliverance either by life or death In the meane time I am perswaded that they will use you with no worse measure then their Prisoners who were apprehended by me in the action of Rebellion are used so recommending you to God I rest Your very loving friend Frederick Hamilton Castle-Hamilton Ianuary the 19 1641. And after he delvered this letter unto the Messenger he hanged the chiefe of the Prisoners being brother to Collonel O Roirke who was desired by this exchange in the sight of the Messenger before he would permit him to depart upon whose returne to the Rebels they in revenge thereof Murthered about 10 or 11 of the said Protestants whereof two were Godly Ministers and yet if their mercy and Compassion in the midst of their Barbarity had not farre transcended Sir Frederick Hamiltons they had likewise put Sir Robert Hannay and his Lady and Children and all the rest to death And that his ill disposition may the more fully appeare he hath with striking and other ill usage so behaved himselfe toward his Officers that his Lieutenant Ensigne Minister and one of his Serjeants have all forsaken him so that he hath now no Officers but one Serjeant to Command his Company at Mannor-Hamilton consisting of 70 men or thereabouts And notwithstanding all this the said Informer is labouring for the Government of Londonderry and because he conceived he might prevaile in that sure if his miscariages were not discovered he moved this Respondent that all the differences betwixt them might be composed by the order of friends which motion if this Respondent would then have accepted he conceives this information had never beene heard of And as touching the Government of Londonderry aforesaid this Respondent humbly desires leave to declare that once it was conferred upon Sir George Pawlet a man whose temper in some things was not much unlike this of the Informers whose passionate demeanour in his Office was not onely the occasion of the losse of his own life but of the losse also of the lives of many of this Nation there and the burning of that Towne with the kindling of a violent though as it happened but a short Rebellion in the Country thereabouts which did put the State then to much unnecessary expences in the suppressing of it All which together with the premisses this Respondent humbly representeth as pertinent instances and reasons to induce the honourable Parliament not to put the Government thereof into the power of the Informer whose demeanour will never be brooked by those good people that now inhabit there upon whom all the aspersions that are layd by any late reports or printed letters this Respondent beleeves were invented and contrived by the Informer or his Instruments of purpose to make them detestablee to this Honourable Parliament whom this Respondent is confident are as Loyal and well wishing to the Parliament as can be expected and will really witnesse the same by their ready and joyfull receiving and obeying of any Governour except Sir Frederick Hamilton that the Parliament will be pleased to appoint over them But his conditions are so well knowne unto them that they will quit their fortunes and stations there which they have hitherto preserved with so much expence and hazard rather then submit unto his Command And this Respondent most humbly desires this honourable Committee would be pleased to pardon him if hee have trespassed upon your Patience in answere to the Charge given in by the Informer being necessitated thereunto for his more ample Vindication by laying open the disposition of the Informer which hee hath most unnecessarily drawne upon himselfe without any provocations given to him by this Respondent And humbly prayes such reparations as in your Wisdomes shall be thought fit Signed WILLIAM COLE Exhibited 11 of January 1644. Notice was given of this Rebellion from the Respondent to Sir Frederick Hamilton at London Derry the 22. of October 1641. by Francis Barnaby Note that this Iohn Wetherspin conceived to have been the Father was not the man the said Sir Frederick shot as aforesaid yet was hanged by him but it was another old sick bedridden Scotshman that was so shot and kild by him in manner aforesaid Note that there were Suites depending both in Ireland and in England betweene Sir Frederick Hamilton and the said Iames Wetherspin some yeares before the Rebellion And that the said Wetherspin being served in Ireland with a Command Dated the 14. of Ianuary 1640. under the hand of the Speaker of the House of Commons of England at the instance of the said Sir Frederick he appeared heere in London 7. Aprill 1641. Where having attended the House to answer Sir Fredericks complaint vntill the 20. of September 1641. And not being able longer to stay bee returned into Ireland where the said Sir Frederick became his Iudge and Executioner as in this Answer is declared Note that since this Answer was sent into the Commons house of Parliament Sir William Cole received a Letter of the 8. of Ianuary 1644. written by one of the Captaines of his Regiment from Iniskillin certifying that about that time 40 Horse and 120 Foot of that Garrison fought with and routed 500 Foot and 3. Troopes of Horse of the Rebels conducted by Collonel Philip O Rely wherein they not onely rescued their owne Cattle which were Plundered by the Enemy but also killed 140 of them in the place and tooke 55. Prisoners whereof are Officers one Serjeant Major 3 Captaines two Lieutenants with divers Gentl●men and other Officers Whereby it appeares that neither the said Sir William or his Souldiers did any way correspond with the Rebels since the Cessation before

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 serlous 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 Coppie thereof this Respondent understands was transmitted by their Lordships to the Parliament of England and remaines with the Clerke 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 mic Mahon Coconaght Magwire Redmond Magwire Tirlagh oge mac Hugh and others of their consorts in Dablin the 23.th of October 1641. or thereabouts And for proofe of this advertisement hee can produce their Lordships letter in answer of his which he received before the Rebellion broke out And further saith that upon the 21.th of October 1641. the said Plot being more fully discovered unto him by the said Flartagh mic Hugh by Direction from the said Bryan Magwire and by one Fargus O Howen how the Rebellion was to breake out universally by the Irish on the 23.th of that Moneth Hee not onely posted away a Messenger with a second letter to signifie the same unto the said Lords Iustices and Councell which was intercopted by the way at Laghramar but also the same Day hastened eighteene Messengers with so many Letters to notifie the same to his Neighbours at Monea Castle-Balfoure Newtowne Newpurtton Lowtherstowne Archdale Bowssland Clogher Glasslogh and elsewhere as farre as in so short and Distracted a time hee could possibly doe being fully busied to draw his Neighbours and Tenants together and to Arme and put them into a posture of Warre for the Defence of the Castle and Towne of Iniskillin and the parts thereabouts and amongst others did then direct particular advertisement thereof to be given unto Mannor hamilton where the Rebellion broke not out in a Moneth after and of which the Informer could not afterwards be ignorant though hee himselfe was then absent and certainly of all men hath least reason to lay this as a cryme to the Respondents charge had he not wanted other matter II. 2. To the second article he answereth That the Commission therein mentioned as he hath heard was the first ground of the Informers envie and discontent not onely against this Respondent but also against all the other Brittish Colloness then in Vlster that received Commissions from His Majesty at that time for the raising of their Regiments and prosecuting of the Rebels taking it in great disdaine that there was not the like Commission then sent unto him wheras for ought this Respondent could ever heare none of the said Collonels knew any certainty of the said Commissions vntill they were brought unto them neither did this Respondent receive his said Commission vntill almost a yeare after the Rebellion began at which time he gave notice thereof unto all his Captaines for that during the greatest part of that yeare he was so inclosed on all sides with multitudes of the Enemies being above forty miles distant from any that were able to give him reliefe that he could not receive any intelligence how the state of the Protestants of that Kingdome stood in any part thereof though he had often used his best endeavours to gaine the same to his exceeding great charges and the hanging of twelve or fourteen of his Messengers by the Rebels And the said Informer finding this Respondent next unto him and conceiving him easiest to be dealt withall hath ever since used his uttermost indeavours by invective Calumnies to asperse and undervalue both him and his actions which he hath ever envyed so that by extolling his owne unknowne services he laboureth as much as in him lyeth to eclipse those well known services performed by this Respondent and all other the Commanders and Officers in Vlster and Conaught And this Respondent further sayth that by vertue of a Commission from the Lords Iustices and Councell of Jreland to him directed at the beginning of the said Rebellion for raising Arming and Banding all the Brittish within the County of Fermanaugh hee with the helpe of his friends raised Armed and Banded the nine Companies in the said second Article specified together with a Troope of horse by vertue whereof also hee might have raised Armed and banded as many of the Brittish as he could have drawn together for their owne mutuall defence and prosecution of the Rebels by whose assistance and Gods great blessings sundry good services have been performed whereof this Respondent did often give intimation both to the Honourable Parliament and to the Lords Iustices and Councell of Jreland Humbly desiring that in reward of their good services they might be listed into the Parliaments pay and Regimented under his Command But inasmuch as he could not obtaine tha● favour by reason of the troubles then heere though earnestly sollicited by his friends and that but 500 of his Foot and his Troope was inlisted and taken into the Parliaments pay from the first of Iuly 1642. As appeares by Order of the 21.th of that Moneth and Provisions of cloathes and Victuals being onely sent for them upon the solicitation of his Agent Master Robert Barcklay this Respondent was constrained to deliver out the said cloathes unto the Officers and Souldiers of the said five Companies not being able to divide the said 500 suits amongst 900 men vizt. unto his own Company his Lievtenant Collonels his Serjant Majors to the Company of Captaine Iohn Cole and to the Company of Captaine Hugh Rosse of whom three are Scottish Officers and whom without prejudice to the others merrit he conceived very deserving of the Imployment Offering at the very same time to the other foure Captaines and their companies an equall divident of all other provisions sent him then by the Parliament and of what spoiles they could get from the Rebels if they would continue with him in the service promising also to use his best endeavours to have them taken into pay and added to his Regiment But the cloathes being thus divided which could not be otherwise the said foure Companies were so discontented that of their own accords they disbanded themselves and went to seeke their fortunes elsewhere and yet the greatest part of their best and ablest men were perswaded to continue in the Garrison So that this Respondent denieth that he did Casheere foure of the said Captaines and their companies of purpose to gaine all the said provisions to himselfe and his Sonne in Law Master Barcklay as is suggested by the Informer but was so farre from doing so dishonest an act that during the stay of the said foure Captaines and their Companies in the Garrison they received an equall and proportionable share of the Victuals

tyed together with Coards or Withes and upon the Wednesday following caused him to be Hanged Who at the beginning of the Rebellion with a Horse Sword and Fowling peece came to him offering his service against the Rebels from whom notwithstanding hee tooke the said Horse and Armes commanding him to be gone out of his Garrison and that if he did not hee would Hang him or if ever he got him againe he would be his Death which he faithfully performed as aforesaid And also upon the Informers entrance into his Castle hee made exceeding shewes of welcome to the said Mr. Parck whilest in the interim hee caused all his Souldiers to be Disarmed and they put in restraint in severall lower Roumes in his house and then when he perceived no danger of opposition hee arrested the said Mr. Parck charging him with Treason and committed him close Prisoner where hee detained him in Durance the space of a Yeare and upwards without suffering any man except Serjeant Major Iames Galbraith to speake unto him which was but once and that upon much importunity whose extreame misery was lamentably bewayled by all the men that were in that Garrison And then hee not onely seized upon and kept his Castle of Newtowne putting a Guard of his owne into it but also Plundered and converted to his owne use all his Money Plate Armes Housholdstuffe Bedding Furniture and all other his goods whatsoever which hee had then aswell without as within Doores there not suffering his Souldiers to come out of Restraint or use their owne Armes untill hee had unlawfully compelled them to take an Oath to serve as Souldiers under his onely Command By reason whereof the said Mr. Parck was utterly disabled to performe farre 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 doe there as this Respondent hath been credibly informed aswell by the Testimony of sundry other honest men as by the said Mr. Parck himselfe Whereupon Sir Edward Povie Knight whose Daughter was the Wife of the said Mr. Parck together with others his Friends being advertised of his extreame hard usage Petitioned the Lords Iustices and Councell of Ireland for his removall to Dublin to answer such matters as the Informer had to lay to his charge and entred 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 Captaine Folliot to Ballyshannon or unto this Respondent to Jniskillin together with the matters that he had to object against him That so he might be conveighed by them or one of them to Londonderry to be sent from thence to Dublin But the Informer notwithstanding the said Order was shewed unto him denyed obedience thereunto And detained the said Parck still in durance untill his said friends procured severall Orders commanding his inlargement yet nothing would prevaile to that effect with him untill that about the beginng of September 1643 Captaine King comming with a Troope of horse from Conaght into Vlster about some businesse he had with Sir William Stuart and Sir Robert Stuart he came about the 13.th of that Moneth to Jniskillin unto this Respondent who sent his Ensigne with 50 Musquettiers to guard the said Troope to the Abbey of Boyle in Conaght which is about 40 myles from Iniskillin who were so farre 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 tooke a pr●y from thence to the Boyle whence upon returne of the said Ensigne he came to Mannor Hamillon in his way where he delivered a letter from this Respondent to Lieutenant Lesley the Informers Lievtenant it being direc●d to the Informer or in his absence to the Officer in chiefe at Mannor Hamilton with an Order of the Coppie of an Order which the Respondent received from the said Captaine Foliot in it directed also as aforesaid from the Lords Iustices and Councell of Jreland for the inlargement of the said Parck to be sent to Iniskilin or Ballyshannon which this Respondent left to his choise to doe or not to doe as best pleased the Informer or his said Officer who sent the said Parck along with the said Ensigne and because he was sensible of the great misery which he had wrongfully sustained by his Captaines severity he delivered to the said Master Parck two of his owne horses with some other little helpe 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 advertizement together with a Proclamation to that effect from the Lords Iustices 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 Iustice Lord Deputy or Lord Lieutenant 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 looke for or expect any indirect corresponding from the Informers Lieutenant And this Respondent saith That as a Prisoner and poore distressed Englishman his Countryman being under bayle and mainprize as aforesaid he gave some entertainment unto the said Parck for some few weekes in his house farre short of feasting as the Informer tearmes 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 Hamilton againe 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 Boyle whence after he recovered of a Feaver whereof he had almost dyed he repaired to Dublin and according to the condition of his said friends Recognizance appeared before the Lords Iustices and Councell at the Councell Board there where how he was proceeded withall this Respondent knowoth not Neither did this Respondent returne him back amongst the Rebels neither doth he know whether any of them did accompany him to Dublin neither doth this Respondent believe that the state there would grant him an Order for Restitution of his Castle with whatsoever Armes or Goods were in it unlesse it appeared to them that hee was wrongfully expulsed by the Informer And this