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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

Respondent where the said Hetheringtons went to Church and did many good and acceptable services behaving themselves honestly and valiantly in all that time and as he is informed or both together with their Master at this time in the service of this Honourable Parliament under Generall Major Monroe whose Kinsman the said James Dunbar is And where he and his said men are ready to answer ought the Informer can lay to their charge but this Respondent saith That he never knew or heard that the said Hetheringtons joyned themselves with the Rebels or plundered the said Serjeant Abrels house or afterward burned it neither was their any proof thereof made by the said Abrel or any witnesses upon Oath or otherwise produced before the Respondent neither did he deem it requisit upon the bare Letters of the Informer knowing his malice towards them for their Masters sake to commit them to Prison where they might have starved for want of sustenance neither did he suffer them as Fellons or Traitors to escape for that they in the Service did destroy divers Rebels and Traytors whilest they remained at Iniskilling under this Respondents command IV. To the fourth Article of the said Information this Respondent saith That upon the first of July 1642. or thereabouts the said Informer having a design upon the Town of Sligoe about ten miles from his house marched to the Castle of Robert Parck Esquire in the said Article mentioned an English Protestant and a Justice of Peace which before the Rebellion was possessed of an estate of about 1000 l. a yeer and one that was of very good repute and esteem amongst his Neighbours and who as this Respondent hath been often informed by credible persons had to the best of his power opposed the Rebels in the beginning of that Rebellion without complying or any way corresponding with them And under colour of going forward with that design procured the said Master Parck with 30 or 40. of his Souldiers to accompany him to Sligoe and when they came neer the said Town both Master Parcks Souldiers and those of the Informers entered the Suburbs thereof and having burned some few houses in it and received some Brittish Protestants that escaped unto them from the Rebels they brought them unto the Informer where he stood aloof with the said Master Parck two of the said rescued Protestants namely John Wetherspin the father and James Witherspin his son both Scotchmen were questioned by the Informer wherefore they were amongst the Rebels The father answered that by reason of his age being about 70 yeers old or upwards and that he was sick and Bedridden three moneths before he could not get away but lived upon the Alms of the people whereupon one of the Informers servants told him that this old man was formerly Tenant to one John Waldrome Esquire a Gentleman that had an estate neer the Informers Lands in that Countrey and had borne witnesse upon Oath on his Land-lords part in matter of title of Land against the Informer by means whereof the cause was decreed for Master Waldrome Note that this John Whetherspin 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 Scotchman that was so shot and kild by him in manner aforesaid against the Informer or matter to that purpose Upon which without using any more words he shot and kild the poor decreeped old man which was the first and last man the Informer kild with his own hands since the Rebellion began in Ireland as some of his own servants and Souldiers affirmed Whereupon being informed by James Wetherspin the son that the Forces of the County of Sligoe were upon their march to joyn with the O Roirkes for to trouble Mannor-hammilton he together with Master Parcks and both their Companies hastened back to Master Parcks house where at the importunitie of the Informer as this Respondent hath been credibly informed he got the said Master Parck and his Company for the better guard of him and his men to accompany him to Mannor-hammilton And although in the way they were hard beset by the Rebels insomuch as the Informer in a Bog was unhorse't and his Horse with Furniture and Pistols taken by the Rebels by whom he had been then slain or taken if by the care and valour of the said Master Parck and some of his Souldiers he had not been horsed again and brought off Note that there were Suites depending both in Ireland and in England between Sir Frederick Hammilton and the said James Wetherspin some yeers before the Rebellion And that the said Wetherspin being served in Ireland with a Command Dated the 14. of January 1640. under the hand of the Speaker of the House of Commons of England at the instance of the said Sir Frederick he appeared here in London 7. April 1641. where having attended the House to answer Sir Fredericks complaint untill the 20 of September 1641. And not being able longer to stay he returned into Ireland where the said Sir Frederick became his Judge and Executioner as in this Answer is declared Yet when they had escaped that danger and were come to the Informers house as this Respondent hath credibly heard he took the said James Wetherspin for having formerly witnessed with his Father against him as aforesaid and twisted a Cord with a wrinch about his head so hard that his blood streamed forth of his Ears Eies Nose and Mouth in which tortures he continued him during his pleasure and then easing him of that did cast him into a Dungeon where he continued him languishing for hunger from Thursday untill the Wednesday following And did cruelly punish a poor Scotsh-woman which in pitty did cast him an handfull of Oatmeal under the door which the miserable man did lick with his Tongue from the dirt his hands and feet being fast tied together with Cords 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-Peace came to him offering his service against the Rebels from whom not withstanding he took the said Horse and Arms commanding him to be gone out of his Garrison and that if he did not he would hang him or if ever he got him again he would be his death which he faithfully performed as aforesaid And also upon the Informers entrance into his Castle he made exceeding shews of welcome to the said Master Parck whilest in the interim he caused all his Souldiers to be disarmed and they put in restraint in severall lower Rooms in his house and then when he perceived no danger of opposition he arrested the said Master Parck charging him with Treason and committed him close Prisoner where he detained him in durance the space of a yeer and upwards without suffering any man except Serjeant Major James Galbraith to speak unto him which was but once

the Rebels since the Cessation or before by saying he could inform many other particular omissions and dis-services which the said Respondent hath committed in this time of his imployment c. The Respondent faith That he conceiveth the Informer means it by the scandalous calumnies and aspersions digested in fifteen places of that Pamphlet Printed at London in Anno Dom. 1643. Wherein his Services are registred and wherein this Respondent and his Captains Officers and Souldiers are most injuriously taxed with often reiterations of unworthy and mean carriage towards him for that they did not wait upon him upon all his calls which this Respondent conceiveth was more then he was bound to do further then to this Respondent would seem fit for the good of the Publike Service especially when as at the same very times which was long before the Cessation he was imployed about services of far greater and better concernment in the Counties of Fermanagh Cavan Monaghan Tirone Donegall Letrim or Sligoe which hath formerly been well known both in Ireland and else where And this Respondent further sheweth That immediately after the said Cessation this Respondents Regiment destroyed 296. of the Rebels and famished many hundreds of them and also took in Rory mac Gwires Castle which is now preserved for the Parliaments use And as well then as before did rescue or otherwise redeem from the said Rebels 5467 English and Scottish Protestants and relieved them for many Moneths out of the spoils gained from the enemy untill that in his own person he guarded and conveied great numbers of them towards London-Derry where further care was taken for their relief by the good people there And saith also That he this Respondent was one of the first Colonels of the Brittish Regiments in Vlster which did imbrace and take the Solemn League and Covenant which he humbly conceives will not be deemed to be Omissions or Dis-services as the Informer terms them who since his coming hither hath not onely laboured to defame the Respondent but also hath taxed the rest of the Colonels in Vlster for their neglects in their Service who in this Respondents opinion have done much better Service then either of them Yet did this Respondent severall times shew his desires in a most effectuall manner to help and relieve the said Informer for having received a pittifull Message from him about the 26. of July 1642. That he his Wife Children and Souldiers were like to be destroyed by nine hundred of the Rebels that then besieged him This Respondent immediatly sent a party of four hundred Horse and Foot for his relief with Orders that after they had relieved the Informer they should return within fourty eight hours This Respondent being then threatned to be besieged by the Generall of the Irish Forces Owin mac Art O Neille with 6000 men but when the Respondents Lievtenant Colonell came to the Informer with this Party they found him not at all besieged not in no such extremity as he pretended but perceived he sent this pressing Message onely to get some of the Respondents men with him to take in the Castle of Dromahear which without Ordnance they could not have effected though being come at his importunitie they attempted in conclusion to no other purpose then to destroy their men Whereupon his Officers and Souldiers returned on the 29. of July from him having received many affronts and abuses And on the 20. of May following this Respondent intending some service in the Province of Conaught drew forth about 500. Horse and Foot and Leaguring within two miles of the Informers Garrison was importuned with much earnestnesse to come unto him to Christen his Son which the Respondent conceiving to be an act of charity and Christianity consented unto expecting such civilitie as might be answerable to so neighbourly an Office But both himself and those few Officers he carried with him received such grosse dis-respect that he will not desile your ears with the hearing it Neverthelesse God having blest the Respondent in his journey with successe against the enemy he gave him for the relief of his Garrison two hundred fifty and nine Cows There going with him in his journey of their own accord of the men belonging to his Garrison onely 38. Footmen and 12. Horse He moreover then bestowed upon his good Lady 1000. Sheep and what he bestowed on those Gentlemen of his Ladies Kinred and his Officers who went in a friendly manner with this Respondent the Informer suffered them not to enjoy but converted to his own use These civilities which this Respondent is most unwillingly drawn to mention he conceived might deserve more thanks and not to be himself and his Regiment exclaimed against by the Informer meerly to render him and them odious in all places where his tongue gets him credit In the time of Peace his carriage towards hie neighbours was so full of contention that there was hardly any man of quality or worth neer him in the Province of Conaught that he had not laboured to injure and oppresse either in their Estates or Reputations if not in both so that before the Rebellion began such his carriages made him extremly distastfull to men of all conditions that lived within twenty or thirty miles of him in that Province which will be evidenced by divers of his Neighbours of the best qualitie now in this City if they may be called upon for that purpose And particularly this Respondent representeth to your further notice something of the Informers demeanour towards some of his distressed Neighbours in the hands of the Rebels deciphered in these two short insuing Letters Printed in the latter end of that Book of his own Services Page 57. viz. Sir Robert Hannay's Letter and other Protestants being Prisoners at Sligoe are sent to Dromahear Castle Honourable Sir WE the undernamed persons having suffered in all our whole Estates and being upon our banishment out of this Kingdom under the safe conduct of Master Edmond Bourk of Ragagh and Master Walter Bourk of Ardagh towards the North but most opposed at Castle-Coner Eniscromme Escagh-Bridge Downeill Arnaglasse and Tomler go by severall Bands of Armed men purposely to set for our lives were not there extreme violence suppressed by the discretion worth and care of those two Gentlemen and we taken Prisoners by the Mac Swines brought before O Coner-Sligo where we now remain and intended to be sent to the Castle of Dromahear to be kept untill you Sir deliver such Prisoners of the O Roirks and others as you have in your custodie or to be dealt with as you do unto them Sir you are Nobly disposed so that in honour we hope the means of relief being in your self you will not suffer us to perish who will ever remain Sir Yours trulie obliged to serve you Signed Robert Hannay Andrew Adare Alexander Mountgomery William Liston Thomas Fullerton These be the names and number of the Prisoners Sir Robert Hannay

inflicted upon the said Loghlan The Deponant being further asked if he knew one Mullmory ô Digg●nnan or if he had heard of any words that had passed between Serjeant Heath and the said Mullmory concerning Sir Frederick Hammilton if he was by when the words were spoken or if he heard what words they were To this the Deponant answereth That Mullmory ô Diggennan he knoweth to be Master Parcks Husbandman and father to the said Loghlan ô Diggennan and did hear that Serjeant Heath being one day in the Forge within Master Parcks Bawn Mullmory ô Diggennan brought into the said Forge some Plow-Irons which Serjeant Heath perceiving was said to have told the said Mullmory it was a good sight to see him provide for plowing or words to this purpose to the which speech of Serjeant Heaths Mullmory was said to reply it was to no purpose for any man in this Countrey to Plough or Sowe untill Sir Frederick Hammilton were cut off These words the Dep●nant did not hear spoken by Mullmory himself but did hear it from Serjeant Heath to whom it was spoken and heard divers others talking of it within the Castle admiring that fellow should be suffered to live And further this Deponant saith That many Irish were daily coming and going to Master Parcks Castle and Ploughing neer about it such as the three Brothers Torilagh Donnell and another of the ô Boylands with one James ô Gallocher Son in law to the said Mullmory ô Diggennan having been a Souldier to the Arch-Rebell Torilagh mac Caffry ô Donnell This ô Gallacher going severall times from the Newtown Castle to Sligoe and Dromahear to Masse and other times would be abroad two or three dayes and so return pretending to have been looking for Mares or Cattle of his Father in laws and his own when no good Subject of greater strength then they durst wander abroad or had any Cattle left them The Depositions of George Heath Serjeant taken the 23. July 1643. WHo being duely sworn deposeth That about the 24. of February last Sir Frederick Hammilton hearing that Master Robert Parck of Newtown whose Serjeant the Deponant then was was besieged or blockt up in his Castle of Newtown by the Rebels of the County of Sligoe and Letrim for whose relief the said Sir Frederick sent his two Lievtenants Lievtenant Lesly and Lievtenant Vaughan with a party of Horse and Foot with Orders as the Deponant was told to view in what Posture the Rebels lay about us and to indeavour to speak with Master Parck and to bring him and his men off if he found himself unable with those men or feared his Provisions for the making good of that Castle At the parties coming to us Lievtenant Lesley found our Castle free and delivered his Message to Master Parck from his Colonell withall desiring Master Parcks answer which was That he would not leave his Castle and that he much feared the parties danger upon their retreat observing the Fields foul and the Rebels gathering on every Hill round about us whereupon Lievtenant Lesly desired Master Parck for the better guard and strengthning of that party which his Colonell had so ventured for his relief that therefore he might be supplied with twenty or thirty of his men he having sufficient besides to guard him in his Castle which request of Lievtenant Leslies was altogether denied by Master Parck though it was seconded and much urged by the Deponant and most of Master Parcks Souldiers who told him it would be a great shame for them all to see those men in danger to be destroyed who had so ingaged themselves for his relief Master Parcks answer was That he would not spare a man neither would he do any thing to provoke the Countrey against himself The Deponant further saith That shortly after this parting of Lievtenant Lesly with Master Parck news was brought us by Mullumry O Diggennan who then served Master Parck as his Bailiff or Husbandman that he had seen Sir Frederick Hammiltons party sore put to it upon their retreat homewards having been charged by neer six or seven hundred of the Rebels having incountered them and fought with them as they were mid way betwixt Master Parcks and their Garrison which news made the Deponant and most of Master Parcks Souldiers much ashamed of themselves and began to mistrust their own safeties in that Castle Some few dayes after this Deponant standing and mourning upon the Castle-Wals of Newtown did perceive four or five Horsemen riding from toward Sligoe which Horsemen the Deponant was told was Captain Mac Donnaghy and Colonell Taaffe riding towards Mannor-Ham●…lton to meet their Troops having incamped about that Castle they sending a Horseman before them with a compliment as this Deponant was told to Master Parck and to ask leave freely to passe by his Castle as they did to this Deponant and others of the Souldiers great grief if they durst have followed this Colonell and Captain being not above five or six Horsemen in Company W●… f●rther deposeth That Mannor-Hammilton Castle being besieged by ●…onell Owen O Roirk and his brother Bryan Ballagh O Roirk with the assistance of the County of Sligoe the said Bryan Ballagh had his Cows brought close to the Castle of the Newtown where they daily and peaceably grazed with a small guard of three or four heards during the time the Camp lay about Mannor-Hammilton not a Souldier daring from Newtown Castle to meddle with a Cow of of them though they were sometimes in great distresse for victuals this Deponant many times telling Master Parck what a shame it was to him and how he might one day be put to answer it for suffering the Rebels to graze their Cows so meanly guarded so neer his Castle and so many of His Majesties Subjects within his Castle in such distresse being ab●… to supply themselves and him both if under the Deponants care and charge he would suffer the men to venture for them but the Deponant could never prevail with Master Parck to meddle with a Cow of them Further the Deponant saith That one night some of the Souldiers being in great distresse for victuals John Powel and others ventured with a Rope to go over the Wals and that night brought in thirteen Cows from the Rebels wherewith one Walter Harrison being acquainted that so many Cows were brought by in two Souldiers the said Harrison did alledge those Cows to belong to his Foster-Father swearing many oaths that who should meddle with those Cows he would have their hearts blood and with this acquaints Master Parck who no sooner heard of it but in great anger threatning and checking the Souldiers caused them to turn back all the Cows not suffering a Souldier to kill a Beast of them The next night the same Souldiers being sore pinched with wants for the relief of their Wives and Children ventured as the night before over the Wals by the help of a Rope and brought home that night some sheep

being at New-town brushing his Masters Cloths the Butler William Parkinson came to the Deponant telling him there was a Horse-man at the Gate desirous to speak with him and as the Deponant went down the staires he perceived Serjeant Heath and a many of the souldiers upon the Bawn-Walls gazing upon some Horse-men riding by the Castle and as the Deponant came to the Gate he did see ● Kinsman of his own called Maurice mac O Bryan sitting on Horseback who had formerly served Mr. George Craston and was now in service as he told the Deponant with Captain Bryan Mac Donaghie who was riding by the Castle with Colonell Lucas Taffe who had sent him the said Maurice to present both their services to Mr. Robert Parck and withall told the Deponant they were riding towards Mannor-Hammilton where their Regiment lay with the Camp neere that Castle whiles the Deponant was thus in discourse with his Kinsman William Parkinson the Butler called the Deponant to come in that the Gate might be shut but before the Deponant entred the Gate Captain Mac Donaghie called to him Owen mac O Bryan how do you but the Deponant being in haste to shut the Gate made no answer but presently went to his Master being in Bed acquainting him that Colonell Taffe and Captain Bryan mac Donaghy were with four or five Horse riding so neere the Castle towards Mannor-Hammilton thinking Mr. Parck they being so few would have commanded men to have followed after them but Mr. Parck being in Bed observing so many come in unto him with these news angerly bid them let them Ride where they would for him what had he to do with them Mr. Parck at that time commanding neere sixty or seventy able men within that Castle most willingly to have been imployed The Deponant further faith that about Candlemasse last one Cormick mac Robert MacTernan then in Rebellion with Bryan Ballagh O Roirk the said Cormick being Foster-father to Walter Harrison being then in the Castle with Mr. Parck did send three Beeves about midnight to the said Walter Harrison Mr. Parck causing the Gate to be opened and received them one of the Beeves being bestowed upon Mr. Parck another was sold for ten shillings to John Darrington and the third sold too to Rice Jones as this Deponant heard and faith that shortly after John Powell and others of the souldiers being not suffered by Mr. Parck to meddle with any of Bryan Ballaghs and the Rebells Cows which grazed daily neere to the Castle in the night-time the said John Powell and and others conveyed themselves over the Bawn-walls with Ropes and brought in some Cows with them that same night which Walter Harrison alleadged to be his Foster-fathers Cormick mac Roberts Cows and therefore would not suffer one of them to be touched but turned back to the Rebells The next night the same souldiers ventured as before with Ropes over the Walls bringing whom with them eight Cows and thirty Sheep wherewith Mr. Parck being acquainted got out of his Bed clapping his hands and crying out that they should be all undone causing them presently to drive back both the Cows and the Sheep not suffering the Souldiers to kill one Beast of them And further saith that he did see Bryan Ballagh O Roirks herd brought to Master Parck by one Mullmory O Diggennan complaining to Master Parck that they had found one of Bryan Ballaghes Cows which had been taken and killed by a poor Englishman Thomas Normand and his Wife who were by Master Parck turned out of the Castle a little before that upon which complaint Master Parck in a great anger bid the said Mullmory and the Cowherd do with the said Normand and the killed Cow what they pleased for he had before that turned him and his Wife and Children out of the Castle and since had nothing to do with them The Cow-herd many times threatning the poor Englishman in Master Parcks presence that since it was so he would have the said Normands head for the Cow This Deponant further faith That he being in company with Walter Harrison and Thomas Lambard neer to the Castle of the Newtown they all three went towards Torilagh O Boyland and his Brother Donnell O Boyland where they were a Ploughing within lesse then Musket shot to the Castle where the said Donnell O Boyland shewed this Deponant severall stobs and cuts which he had received in his Jerkin that day Mullmory mac Ternan and divers others of the Countrey Gentlemen were killed by Sir Fredericks party as they retreated from the Newtown The Deponant asked the said Donnell how he durst fight against any of the Kings Souldiers who answered That neither he nor any of his Fathers Children would fight against any other but such as were commanded by Sir Frederick Hammilton who daily destroyed so many of them the Deponant being asked why they did not upon that confession apprehend the said Donnell and carry him to Master Parck the Deponant replied That none of them durst meddle with any of these O Boylands nor any other of those Irish that used daily about the Castle and allowed by their Master to Plough which he might easily see out of his Chamber Window as also the Deponant doth acknowledge severall times to have seen the Cloath while it was a Weaving within the Castle by Master Parcks directions for Bryan Ballagh O Roirk at that time whiles the said Bryan Ballagh O Roirk was incamped about Mannor-Hammilton Castle The Depositions of Walter Harrison taken the 13. of January 1642. WHo acknowledgeth That he the Deponant being in the Castle of the Newtown with Master Robert Parck the Deponants Foster-Father called Cornick mac Robert mac Ternan did one night since this Rebellion send by a Boy of the Deponants called Teag mac Ternan three Beefs which this Deponant received about midnight Master Parck causing the Castle-Gate to be opened and to put them into the Bawn Which three Beefs as the Deponant alledgeth were for the use of the Castle The next night after the Souldiers brought in five Cows more which the Deponant believed did belong to his Foster-Father telling them if they were his it was shame for them to bring in a poor mans Cows who had supplied them the night before there being so many of Bryan Ballaghes O Roirks and others of the Rebels Cows daily grazing so neer that Castle and that it were better to seize upon them then upon his poor Foster-Fathers whereupon by order were commanded to forsake those Cows And the next night the same Souldiers brought eight Cows and thirty Sheep from the Rebels wherewith Master Parck being acquainted got out of his Bed in a great passion clapping his hands coming to the Gate and many times crying out now we are all undone causing the Gate to opened and to drive the Cows and Sheep towards the Rebels again The Depositions of Benjamin Alexander Clerk taken the 10. of August 1642. WHo deposeth That

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