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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Repliant he saith That it is possible that the said Bryan mac Coconaught mac Gwire in his answer named might do the Respondent those services also mentioned in his answer to this Charge But it is very improbable and unlikely to him that understands him not or that any Papist so allied to the very prime and chief of the Rebels especially where the Rebellion is pretended to be raised to gain the free exercise of their idolatrous Religion and to regain their Lands formerly forfeited and disposed of from them to the Brittish by the State should do these services for the State But to admit it to be so in his person and that for those reasons given the Respondent may be and was well dispensed with for receiving him into protection yet to receive all those together with him if no more then is confessed is not so justifiable under favour especially when he that is acquainted with the quality and nature of those Irish people the meaner sort of them to wholly addicted unto treacheries and perfidiousnesse Besides that the principals of their Religion teacheth them to be so and no longer to hold and keep Faith with us whom they call Heretikes then it serves their own turns That he which is verst and read in the Histories the Irish Wars in former ages or that hath had his conversation there amongst them can justifie all this for truth and what a great deal of Protestant blood they have their shed by breaches of that trust which have been reposed in them by the English from time to time being naturally mercilesse and cruell upon advantages that it hath never been accounted safe in the undertakings of any great designes to have them joyned either in Counsell or Action being also base and cowardly spirited where they are subjected and have not been observed to perform any great services but where by treachery or power they have in an instant gotten first the mastery and then no Salvages have been so bloody and butcherly minded as they that albeit this Bryan mac Coconaught mac Gwire may be one black Swan amongst the rest yet upon what ground he received such a crew of his followers into protection with him and imployed them whose treacheries and revolt is by himself confessed this Repliant must say that as yet he neither seeth ground nor good discretion for it and yet this Repliant craveth leave to tell the Respondent this much That it was a little preposterous and out of order first to do an unlawfull Act and then to justifie it with an allowance afterwards which is the very best of the Respondents case in this particular And albeit some times for money and reward and to save their own lives they have been known to have betrayed their own parents unto destruction yet it hath been seldom seen that they have been drawn to do such service in a Military way and under a Protestant Commander whilest they have continued to be Papists nor was the hanging of one man left for a pledge a sufficient recompence for the great hurt and prejudice they did unto the cause whiles they remained in service with the Respondent and afterwards being with the enemy to whom no doubt they related and discovered whatsoever they understood that might be any wayes disadvantagious to this side and knoweth now the better how to take the opportunities to put them in execution And as to that Printed relation of the Repliants services performed and done against those Rebels which the Respondent is pleased to term scandalous calumnies in severall places thereof which concerns himself and Officers this Repliant saith and must so far excuse himself That it was not a thing done immediately by his direction and appointment or that he desired it but was done in a time when he was then in his Garrison at Mannor-Hammilton and far remote from this City the same being sent to a friend of his at London-Derry who afterwards coming hither and by him that is now the Respondents or Colonell Meevins Secretary Tarlton tendering it to the publike view it was directed to be Printed of which the Respondent may also be pleased upon a better review to observe thus much concerning it That it is not a relation of this Repliants own but of one of his Clerks who as it should seem kept a Diary of the passages and proceeding done by them in that time which he was desirous to communicate for the publishing of Gods great mercy towards that handfull and the Respondents arrogancy and unneighbourly neglect of them So that if any thing therein contained is troublesome and grievous to the Respondent he hath no reaso to except against this Repliant for the same And yet since the Respondent hath therefore brought him upon the stage he must do his Clerk that wrote it that right as to justifie and maintain whatsoever is therein contained to be true nor was there any such waiting upon this Repliant by this Respondent and his Souldiers required as is imagined it was for the King and Parliaments Service the relief of the Repliant and his distressed Garrison and destruction of the Rebels that this Repliant so often importuned the Respondent to joyn with him nor can this Repliant conceive what should be the cause or reason of his backwardnesse if not that by such delayes the Repliant might be destroyed and cut off and it had been well if at this time the Respondent had also forborne the relation of his great Services set forth in his answer because he hath upbraided this Repliant of vain-glory for the like nay for not so much if not for nothing as may be understood by that which hath been said before and herein because he confesseth the destroying of two hundred ninety and six of the Rebels and the famishing and starving of many hundreds of them more by Preys of Cows and other spoil which he took from them since the Cessation and by rescuing and redeeming of five thousand four hundred sixty and nine English and Scots Protestants from the hands of the Enemy for the latter it follows to be done in performance of the Articles of the said Cessation and may be verily beleeved it being done in time after the said Cessation as may be inferred from the Respondents Answer and for which not withstanding the Respondent doth well merit for the relieving of so many distressed souls But how this and the killing of so many Rebels in this time being Acts so opposite and of so differing a nature one unto the other as to keep and not to keep the said Cessation is the thing which strikes most with this Repliant to beleeve howsoever the Preys of Cows and spoil taken may well be so for this made for the profit and benefit of the said Respondent and his Companies and who were far enough from the fear to answer any complaint at Dublin for the same And as the Respondent being one of the first Colonells of the