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<HEAD>THE ANSWERE AND VINDICATION of Sir WILLIAM COLE Knight and Collonel (pre&s;ented to the Right Honorable the Lords and others the Committee of both Kingdomes, and by them &s;ent to be reported to the Honourable the Commons hou&s;e of Parliament of <HI>England</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter)</HI> unto a Charge given in by Sir <HI>Frederick Hamilton</HI> Knight, to the &s;aid Committee, again&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>Will: Cole.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD>Wherein al&s;o will appeare, how frivolous, the a&s;per&s;ions are, which were endeavoured to be ca&s;t upon the &s;aid Sir <HI>William,</HI> and his Regiment, in a Pamphlet &s;et forth in <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1643. Declaring the Services of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Frederick.</HI> Which chiefly occa&s;ioned this An&s;wer from the Pre&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Lords and others the Committee of both Kingdomes.</HEAD>
<HEAD><HI>The Information of Sir</HI> Frederick Hamilton <HI>Knight and Col|lone, again&s;t Sir</HI> William Cole <HI>Knight.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Shewing:</HI></P>
<P>FIrst, That the &s;aid Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> had notice of the intended Plots of the <HI>Jri&s;h</HI> to breake out into Rebellion above a fortnight before the Re|bels tooke up Armes, as it is generally given out in <HI>Jreland;</HI> and yet did neither timely informe the State, nor his Neighbours for to prevent the mi&s;chiefe and to defend them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> That having a Commi&s;&s;ion from his Maeje&s;ty to be a Collonel only of five Companies of Foot, he notwith&s;tanding taketh on nine Companies, making them beleeve, as if he had Commi&s;&s;ion for a Thou&s;and. And when hee had made u&s;e of their Service neere a yeare and a halfe, when provi&s;ions were &s;ent him by the Parliament, whereof they expected a &s;hare, he ca&s;heer'd foure of the mo&s;t de&s;er|ving Captaines and their Companies of purpo&s;e to gaine all the &s;aid Provi&s;ions to him&s;elfe and his Sonne in law Deane <HI>Barkley,</HI> who was his Agent to the Par|liament for tho&s;e provi&s;ions.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>III.</HI> About the beginning of the Rebellion, there were two Engli&s;h Papi&s;t
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who&s;e &s;irnames were <HI>Hetherington,</HI> who joyned them&s;elves with the Rebels, and plundered one Serjeant <HI>Abrels</HI> hou&s;e, a Tenant unto Sir <HI>Frederick,</HI> and af|terwards burned the Hou&s;e, which was certified to Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> by Sir <HI>Frederick,</HI> with the Depo&s;itions of certaine witne&s;&s;es proving the &s;ame fact: and it was de&s;ired that Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> would make them &s;ure for Iu&s;tice, they being then daily imployed by him, which he refu&s;ed to doe, aleadging that they had done good &s;ervice to him and afterward &s;uffered them to e&s;cape.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>IV.</HI> That whereas Sir <HI>Frederick Hamilton</HI> had taken one <HI>Robert Parck,</HI> one that complyed with the Rebels and had him in cu&s;tody a yeare and more, and had likewi&s;e gained the Command of his Ca&s;tle, which was of great advantage and &s;ervice to the Parliament; and by meanes whereof, the &s;aid Sir <HI>Frederick</HI> did daily much &s;poyle and annoy the Rebels: The &s;aid Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> know|ing the con&s;equence thereof, and how well affected the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> &s;tood unto the Rebels, on a time after that horrid Ce&s;&s;ation concluded with the Rebels, and when he knew that Sir <HI>Frederick</HI> him&s;elfe, his Wife and children were gone for <HI>London-Derry,</HI> &s;ome &s;ixty miles from <HI>Mannor-hamilton:</HI> The &s;aid Sir <HI>Wil|liam Cole,</HI> upon the Marquis of <HI>Ormonds</HI> commands, &s;ends his En&s;igne with <HI>40.</HI> Mu&s;quetiers unto Sir <HI>Fredericks</HI> &s;aid Garri&s;on, and by permi&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Fredericks</HI> Lieutenant, who commanded in his ab&s;ence, and corre&s;pon|ded with him as it &s;hould &s;eeme, hee tooke away the &s;aid <HI>Parck.</HI> And whereas he was by the &s;aid Order to have conveyed him unto <HI>London-Derry,</HI> and &s;o to <HI>Dublin,</HI> he fir&s;t fea&s;ted him at his Ca&s;tle, and then returned him backe amongst the Rebels, who received him with all gladne&s;&s;e, and after they had rejoyced a while together, they goe along with him to <HI>Dublin,</HI> where afterwards hee pro|cures an Order of the State for re&s;titution of his Ca&s;tle with what&s;oever Armes and goods were in it; which he accordingly obtained in Sir <HI>Fredericks</HI> ab&s;ence: Which he and the Rebels now make good again&s;t the Parliament, to the great prejudice of the Parliaments &s;ervice, and the danger and hazard of all tho&s;e parts of <HI>Conaght.</HI> And this done, albeit, the &s;aid Sir <HI>William Cole,</HI> well knew that Sir <HI>Frederick</HI> had refu&s;ed to deliver the &s;aid Pri&s;oner upon &s;everall Orders and Commands, &s;ent unto him by the &s;aid Marquis for that purpo&s;e, as well knowing the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> to be an utter Enemy to the Parliament heere and their proceedings. And one for whom the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Taaffe</HI> (that Arch-rebell) had by his Letters &s;olicited the &s;aid Sir <HI>Frederick</HI> for his delivery.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>V.</HI> That the &s;aid Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> did in the moneth of <HI>February</HI> next af|ter the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation, apply him&s;elfe unto the Marquis of <HI>Ormond,</HI> who then and long before was declared an Enemy to the Parliament. And complained a|gain&s;t the &s;aid Sir <HI>Frederick</HI> and his &s;ouldiers to the &s;aid Marquis, for taking of a prey from the Rebels; which Rebels the &s;aid Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> had then protected: and gained an Order from the &s;aid Marquis for re&s;titution thereof, which notwith&s;tanding was di&s;obeyed.</P>
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<HI>VI.</HI> That before the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation the &s;aid Sir <HI>William Cole</HI> corre&s;ponded with the Rebels, and tooke <HI>100.</HI> of them at the lea&s;t into his Protection, and for|med them into a Company con&s;i&s;ting of a Captaine and Officers; and imployed them for &s;ome time with the re&s;t of his Regiment, who did him &s;ervice in get|ting of Preyes, but did great di&s;-&s;ervice unto the State, in giving Intelligence again&s;t all the Britti&s;h of their proceedings; and more particularly did much grieve and offend Sir <HI>Fredericks</HI> Garri&s;on at <HI>Mannor-hamilton,</HI> who at the la&s;t tooke their opportunity and turned Rebels againe.</P>
<P><HI>The &s;aid Sir</HI> Frederick <HI>could informe many other particular Omi&s;&s;ions and Di&s;-&s;ervices which the &s;aid Sir</HI> William Cole <HI>hath committed in this time of his imployment, &s;ince the Rebellion began in</HI> Jreland: <HI>which becau&s;e they doe concerne him&s;elfe in a more neere relation, hee &s;hall therefore forbeare to mention. And the &s;aid Sir</HI> Frederick <HI>is ready to ju&s;tifie him|&s;elfe in what&s;oever that any man can object again&s;t him, And humbly prayeth, that this honourable Committee will not thinke the wor&s;e of him, for di&s;charging his duty to God and the State, by the informing of the&s;e Mi&s;carriages, which in Con&s;cience he holds him&s;elfe bound to relate in pur&s;uance of his &s;olemne League and Covenant.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Frederick Hamilton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Lords and others the Committees of both Kingdomes.</HEAD>
<HEAD><HI>The humble An&s;wer of Sir</HI> WILLIAM COLE <HI>Knight and Col|lonel, to the Information of Sir</HI> Frederick Hamilton <HI>Knight, ex|hibited again&s;t him to your Lord&s;hips, the</HI> 26. <HI>of</HI> December, 1644.</HEAD>
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<P N="1">1. FOr an&s;wer to the fir&s;t Article, hee &s;aith; That he had no certaine notice of the in|tended Plots of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to breake out into Rebellion as is &s;ugge&s;ted by the Infor|mer; But &s;aith, that upon the Eleventh of <HI>October,</HI> 1641. <HI>Bryan mac Coconaght Ma|gwire</HI> E&s;quire, and one <HI>Flartagh mac Hugh,</HI> informed him of &s;ome jealou&s;ies and &s;u&s;pitions, that they then apprehended of &s;ome evill Intentions and practi&s;es of the Lord <HI>Magwire,</HI> Sir <HI>Phelem roe O Neill, Neill mac Kennay, Hugh oge mac Mahon,</HI> &amp; others of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Gentry of <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> of which he gave advertizement by his Letter to the then Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell of <HI>Ireland</HI> with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed; Al&s;o intimating his de&s;ires, that their Lord&s;hips would be &s;o plea&s;ed to take that matter into their &s;erlous con&s;ideration, as that they would &s;trictly Examine the &s;aid Lord <HI>Magwire</HI> and others of his Complices concerning the &s;ame, who he under&s;tood were &s;hortly after to be at <HI>Dublin;</HI> which Letter or a Coppie thereof this Re|&s;pondent under&s;tands, was tran&s;mitted by their Lord&s;hips to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI>
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and remaines with the Clerke of the honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, and was one of the chiefe&s;t Evidences and motives (upon the Di&s;covery made by <HI>Owin O Connallie)</HI> to induce the State to be upon their Guard, and al&s;o of the apprehen&s;ion of the Lord <HI>Magwire, Hugh oge mic Mahon, Coconaght Magwire, Redmond Magwire, Tirlagh oge mac Hugh,</HI> and others of their con&s;orts in <HI>Dablin,</HI> the 23. th of October, 1641. or thereabouts. And for proofe of this adverti&s;ement hee can produce their Lord&s;hips letter in an&s;wer of his, which he received before the Rebellion broke out. And further &s;aith, that upon the 21. th of <HI>Octo|ber,</HI> 1641. the &s;aid Plot being more fully di&s;covered unto him, by the &s;aid <HI>Flartagh mic Hugh,</HI> by Direction from the &s;aid <HI>Bryan Magwire,</HI> and by one <HI>Fargus O Howen,</HI> how the Rebellion was to breake out univer&s;ally by the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> on the 23. th of that Moneth. Hee not onely po&s;ted away a Me&s;&s;enger with a &s;econd letter to &s;ignifie the &s;ame unto the &s;aid Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell (which was inter|copted <NOTE PLACE="marg">* <HI>Notice was given of this Rebellion, from the Re&s;pondent to Sir</HI> Fre|derick Hamilton <HI>at</HI> London. Derry <HI>the</HI> 22. <HI>of October,</HI> 1641. <HI>by</HI> Francis Barnaby.</NOTE> by the way at <HI>Laghramar,)</HI> but al&s;o the &s;ame Day ha&s;tened eighteene Me&s;&s;engers with &s;o many Letters, to notifie the &s;ame to his Neighbours at <HI>Monea, Ca&s;tle-Balfoure, Newtowne, Newpurtton, Lowther&s;towne, Archdale, Bow&s;sland, Clogher, Gla&s;slogh</HI> and el&s;e|where, as farre as in &s;o &s;hort and Di&s;tracted a time hee could po&s;|&s;ibly doe, being fully bu&s;ied to draw his Neighbours and Tenants together, and to Arme and put them into a po&s;ture of Warre, for the Defence of the Ca&s;tle and Towne of <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> and the parts thereabouts; and among&s;t others did then direct particular adverti&s;ement thereof to be given unto <HI>Mannor hamilton</HI> (where the Rebellion broke not out in a Moneth after) and of which the Informer could not afterwards be ignorant, though hee him&s;elfe was then ab&s;ent; and certainly of all men hath lea&s;t rea&s;on to lay this as a cryme to the Re&s;pondents charge, had he not wanted other matter.</P>
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<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P N="2">2. To the &s;econd article he an&s;wereth. That the Commi&s;&s;ion therein mentioned (as he hath heard) was the fir&s;t ground of the Informers envie and di&s;content, not onely again&s;t this Re&s;pondent, but al&s;o again&s;t all the other Britti&s;h Collone&s;s then in <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> that received Commi&s;&s;ions from His Maje&s;ty at that time for the rai&s;ing of their Regiments and pro|&s;ecuting of the Rebels, taking it in great di&s;daine, that there was not the like Commi&s;|&s;ion then &s;ent unto him; wheras for ought this Re&s;pondent could ever heare, none of the &s;aid Collonels knew any certainty of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ions, vntill they were brought unto them, neither did this Re&s;pondent receive his &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion vntill almo&s;t a yeare after the Re|bellion began (at which time he gave notice thereof unto all his Captaines) for that (during the greate&s;t part of that yeare) he was &s;o inclo&s;ed on all &s;ides with multitudes of the Enemies (being above forty miles di&s;tant from any that were able to give him reliefe) that he could not receive any intelligence how the &s;tate of the Prote&s;tants of that Kingdome &s;tood, in any part thereof, though he had often u&s;ed his be&s;t endeavours to gaine the &s;ame to his exceeding great charges, and the hanging of twelve or fourteen of his Me&s;&s;engers, by the Rebels. And the &s;aid Informer finding this Re&s;pondent next unto him, and conceiving him ea&s;ie&s;t to be dealt withall, hath ever &s;ince u&s;ed his uttermo&s;t indeavours by invective Calumnies, to a&s;per&s;e and undervalue both him and his actions, which he hath ever envy|ed, &s;o that by extolling his owne unknowne &s;ervices, he laboureth as much as in him lyeth to eclip&s;e tho&s;e well known &s;ervices performed by this Re&s;pondent, and all other the Com|manders and Officers in <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Conaught;</HI> And this Re&s;pondent further &s;ayth that by vertue of a Commi&s;&s;ion from the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell of <HI>Jreland</HI> to him directed, at the beginning of the &s;aid Rebellion, for rai&s;ing, Arming and Banding all the Britti&s;h within the County of <HI>Fermanaugh,</HI> hee (with the helpe of his friends) rai&s;ed, Armed, and Banded the nine Companies in the &s;aid &s;econd Article &s;pecified, together with a Troope of hor&s;e, by
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vertue whereof al&s;o, hee might have rai&s;ed, Armed and banded as many of the Britti&s;h as he could have drawn together for their owne mutuall defence, and pro&s;ecution of the Rebels, by who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance (and Gods great ble&s;&s;ings) &s;undry good &s;ervices have been performed, whereof this Re&s;pondent did often give intimation, both to the Honourable Parliament, and to the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell of <HI>Jreland,</HI> Humbly de&s;iring that in reward of their good &s;ervices they might be li&s;ted into the Parliaments pay, and Regimented under his Command. But ina&s;much as he could not obtaine tha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> favour by rea&s;on of the troubles then heere, though earne&s;tly &s;ollicited by his friends, and that but 500 of his Foot and his Troope was inli&s;ted and taken into the Parliaments pay, from the fir&s;t of Iuly 1642. As appeares by Order of the 21. th of that Moneth, and Provi&s;ions of cloathes and Victuals be|ing onely &s;ent for them, upon the &s;olicitation of his Agent Ma&s;ter <HI>Robert Barcklay,</HI> this Re|&s;pondent was con&s;trained to deliver out the &s;aid cloathes unto the Officers and Souldiers of the &s;aid five Companies, (not being able to divide the &s;aid 500 &s;uits among&s;t 900 men) <HI>vizt.</HI> unto his own Company, his Lievtenant Collonels, his Serjant Majors, to the Com|pany of Captaine <HI>Iohn Cole</HI> and to the Company of Captaine <HI>Hugh Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> of whom three are <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Officers, and whom without prejudice to the others merrit, he conceived very de|&s;erving of the Imployment. Offering at the very &s;ame time to the other foure Captaines, and their companies an equall divident of all other provi&s;ions &s;ent him then by the Parlia|ment, and of what &s;poiles they could get from the Rebels, if they would continue with him in the &s;ervice; promi&s;ing al&s;o to u&s;e his be&s;t endeavours to have them taken into pay, and added to his Regiment. But the cloathes being thus divided (which could not be other|wi&s;e) the &s;aid foure Companies were &s;o di&s;contented, that of their own accords they di&s;|banded them&s;elves and went to &s;eeke their fortunes el&s;ewhere, and yet the greate&s;t part of their be&s;t and able&s;t men, were per&s;waded to continue in the Garri&s;on. So that this Re|&s;pondent denieth, that he did Ca&s;heere foure of the &s;aid Captaines and their companies, of purpo&s;e to gaine all the &s;aid provi&s;ions to him&s;elfe and his Sonne in Law Ma&s;ter <HI>Barcklay,</HI> as is &s;ugge&s;ted by the Informer, but was &s;o farre from doing &s;o di&s;hone&s;t an act, that du|ring the &s;tay of the &s;aid foure Captaines and their Companies in the Garri&s;on; they recei|ved an equall and proportionable &s;hare of the Victuals &s;ent by the Parliament unto his five Companies onely, and moreover, he then, and about that time did procure upon the credit and Obligations of him&s;elfe and his friends, worth 1300. l. more in Corne and other provi&s;ions for his &s;aid five Companies and Troope, be&s;ides tho&s;e provi&s;ions before mention|ed to be &s;ent them from the Parliament, without which care and charge it was impo&s;&s;ible for him to keepe his Souldiers together, and to do &s;ervice for the publique, in a remote Garri&s;on, invironed then with Rebels on all &s;ides.</P>
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<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P N="3">3. To the third Article this Re&s;pondent &s;aith, that one <HI>Iames Dunbarre</HI> E&s;quire, Sonne and heyre of Sir <HI>Iohn Dunbarre</HI> Knight (who&s;e Lands with a good-Yron worke thereon, lyes next adjoyning, to part of the Lands of the Informer, who&s;e de&s;ire to intrude upon and gain their Rights to him&s;elfe (as they often affirmed to this Re&s;pondent) begot much contention among&s;t them, (as it did betweene him and all others al&s;o who were his landed Neighbours) which bred &s;uch malice in the heart of the Informer again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Iames,</HI> that he not on|ly exceedingly thir&s;ted after his life, but after the Lives al&s;o of his two &s;ervants the <HI>Hethering|tons,</HI> in the &s;aid Article mentioned, (not Papi&s;ts as therein is &s;urmi&s;ed) but then, and now Prote&s;tants, who as well to &s;hun the malice of the Informer, as the fury of the Rebels, came with his &s;aid father unto this Re&s;pondent in December 1641. Who intru&s;ted the &s;aid <HI>Iames</HI> with the cu&s;tody of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Li&s;&s;gole</HI> neere <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> with 74 per&s;ons with him, where he was a&s;&s;aulted the 18. of December 1641. or thereabouts, by a powerfull party of the Enemy under the conduct of <HI>Rorie Maguire,</HI> Brother of the Lord <HI>Maguire&punc;</HI> who then took and burned the &s;aid Ca&s;tle, and ma&s;&s;acred all that were in it, except the &s;aid <HI>Iames Dunbarre,</HI>
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whom the Rebels kept in Pri&s;on, untill May or Iune 1642, at which time hee made an E|&s;cape, and came againe (accompanied with the &s;aid two <HI>Hetheringtons)</HI> unto this Re&s;pondent where the &s;aid <HI>Hetheringtons,</HI> went to Church, and did many good and acceptable &s;ervices, behaving them&s;elves hone&s;tly and valiantly in all that time, and as hee is informed, or both together with their Ma&s;ter at this time in the &s;ervice of this Honourable Parliament, under Generall Major <HI>Monroe</HI> (who&s;e Kin&s;man the &s;aid <HI>Iames Dunbarre</HI> is) And where he and his &s;aid men are ready to an&s;wer ought the Informer can lay to their charge, but this Re&s;pon|dent &s;ayth, that hee never knew, or heard, that the &s;aid <HI>Hetheringtons,</HI> joyned them&s;elves with the Rebels, or plundered the &s;aid Serjeant <HI>Abrels</HI> hou&s;e, or afterward burned it, nei|ther was their any proofe thereof, made by the &s;aid <HI>Abrel,</HI> or any witne&s;&s;es upon Oath or otherwi&s;e produced before the Re&s;pondent, neither did hee deeme it requi&s;it upon the bare Letters of the Informer, (knowing his malice towards them for their Ma&s;ters &s;ake) to com|mit them to Pri&s;on where they might have &s;tarved, for want of &s;u&s;tenance, neither did hee &s;uffer them, as fellons or Traitors to e&s;cape, for that they in the &s;ervice did de&s;troy divers Rebels, and Traytors, while&s;t they remained at <HI>Iniskilling</HI> under this Re&s;pondents command.</P>
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<HEAD>IIII.</HEAD>
<P N="4">4 To the fourth Article of the &s;aid Information, this Re&s;pondent &s;ayeth, that upon the Fir&s;t of Iuly 1642. or thereabouts, the &s;aid Informer having a de&s;igne upon the Town of <HI>Sligoe,</HI> about ten miles from his hou&s;e, marched to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Robert Parck</HI> E&s;quire, in the &s;aid Article mentioned, an Engli&s;h Prote&s;tant, and a Iu&s;tice of Peace, which before the Re|bellion was po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of an e&s;tate of about 1000. l. a yeare, and one that was of very good repute and e&s;teeme, among&s;t his neighbours, and who (as this Re&s;pondent hath bin often Informed by credible per&s;ons) had (to the be&s;t of his power) oppo&s;ed the Rebels, in the beginning of that Rebellion, without complying or any way corre&s;ponding with them. And under colour of going forward with that de&s;igne, procured the &s;aid Ma&s;ter <HI>Parck</HI> with 30, or 40 of his Souldiers to accompanie him to <HI>Sligoe,</HI> and when they came neere the &s;aid Town, both Ma&s;ter <HI>Parcks</HI> Souldiers and tho&s;e of the Informers entred the Suburbs thereof, and having burned &s;ome few hou&s;es in it, and received &s;ome Britti&s;h Prote&s;tants, that e&s;ca|ped unto them from the Rebels, they brought them unto the Informer where he &s;tood aloofe, with the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck,</HI> two of the &s;aid re&s;cued Prote&s;tants, namely <HI>Iohn Wether&s;pin</HI> the Fa|ther, and <HI>Iames Wether&s;pin</HI> his Sonne, both <HI>Scotchmen,</HI> were que&s;tioned by the Informer; wherefore they were among&s;t the Rebels. The Father an&s;wered, that by rea&s;on of his age (being about 70 yeares old or upwards) and that hee was &s;ick and Bedridden three Moneths before, he could not get away, but lived upon the Almes of the people; Whereupon one of the Informers &s;ervants told him, that this old man was formerly Tenant to one <HI>Iohn Wal|drome</HI> E&s;quire, (a Gentleman that had an e&s;tate neere the Informers lands in that Country) and had borne witne&s;&s;e upon Oath on his Land-lords part in matter of tytle of Land again&s;t the Informer, by meanes <NOTE PLACE="marg">* <HI>Note, that this</HI> Iohn We|ther&s;pin, <HI>conceived to have been the Father, was not the man the &s;aid Sir</HI> Frederick <HI>&s;hot as afore&s;aid, yet was hanged by him, but it was another old &s;ick bedridden</HI> Scot&s;hman <HI>that was &s;o &s;hot and kild by him in manner afore&s;aid.</HI></NOTE> whereof the cau&s;e was Decreed for Mr. <HI>Waldrom</HI> again&s;t the Informer, or matter to that purpo&s;e. Vpon which (without u&s;ing any more words) hee &s;hot and kild the poore decreped old man, which was the fir&s;t, and la&s;t man the Informer kild with his owne hands &s;ince the Rebellion began in <HI>Ireland,</HI> as &s;ome of his owne &s;ervants and Soul|diers affirmed. Whereupon being informed by <HI>Iames We|ther&s;pin</HI> the &s;onne that the Forces of the County of <HI>Sligoe,</HI> were upon their March to joyne with the <HI>O Roirkes,</HI> for to trouble <HI>Mannor-hamilton,</HI> hee together with Mr. <HI>Parcks</HI> and both their Companies, ha&s;te|ned backe to Mr. <HI>Parcks</HI> hou&s;e, where at the importunity of the Informer (as this Re&s;pon|dent hath beene credibly informed) hee got the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck</HI> and his Company (for the
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better Guard of him and his men) to accompany him to <HI>Mannor-hamilton.</HI> And although in the way they were heard be&s;et by the Rebels, in&s;omuch as the Informer in a Bogge was unhor&s;t, and his Hor&s;e with Furniture and Pi&s;tols taken by the Rebels, by whom hee had beene then &s;laine or taken, if by the care and valour of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck</HI> and &s;ome of his Souldiers hee had not beene Hor&s;t againe and brought off. Yet when they had e&s;caped that danger and were come to the Informers hou&s;e (as this Re&s;pondent hath credibly heard) hee tooke the &s;aid <HI>Iames Wether&s;pin</HI> (for having formerly witne&s;&s;ed with his Father again&s;t him as afore&s;aid) and twi&s;ted a Cord with a wrinch about his Head &s;o hard, that his blood &s;treamed forth of his <NOTE PLACE="marg">* <HI>Note, that there were Suites de|pending both in</HI> Ireland <HI>and in</HI> England, <HI>betweene Sir</HI> Frederick Hamilton, <HI>and the &s;aid</HI> Iames Wether&s;pin, <HI>&s;ome yeares before the Rebellion. And that the &s;aid</HI> We|ther&s;pin, <HI>being &s;erved in</HI> Ireland <HI>with a Command, Dated the</HI> 14. <HI>of</HI> Ianuary 1640. <HI>under the hand of the Speaker of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons of</HI> England, <HI>at the in&s;tance of the &s;aid Sir</HI> Frederick; <HI>he appeared heere in</HI> London, 7. <HI>Aprill</HI> 1641. <HI>Where having attended the Hou&s;e to an&s;wer Sir</HI> Fredericks <HI>complaint vntill the</HI> 20. <HI>of</HI> September 1641. <HI>And (not being able longer to &s;tay) bee returned into</HI> Ireland, <HI>where the &s;aid Sir</HI> Frederick <HI>became his Iudge and Executioner, as in this An&s;wer is declared.</HI></NOTE> Eares, Eyes, No&s;e, and mouth; In which tortures he continued him during his plea&s;ure, and then ea&s;ing him of that, did ca&s;t him into a Dungeon, where hee continued him langui&s;hing for hunger from Thur&s;day untill the Wedne&s;day following: And did cruelly puni&s;h a poore <HI>Scot&s;hwoman,</HI> which in pitty did ca&s;t him an handfull of Oatmeale under the doore, which the mi&s;erable man, did licke with his Tongue from the Dirt, his hands and feet being fa&s;t tyed together with Coards or Withes; and upon the <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> fol|lowing cau&s;ed him to be Hanged. Who at the begin|ning of the Rebellion, with a Hor&s;e, Sword, and Fow|ling peece, came to him, offering his &s;ervice again&s;t the Rebels, from whom notwith&s;tanding hee tooke the &s;aid Hor&s;e and Armes, commanding him to be gone out of his Garri&s;on, 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 afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And al&s;o upon the Informers entrance into his Ca|&s;tle, hee made exceeding &s;hewes of welcome to the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck,</HI> while&s;t in the interim, hee cau&s;ed all his Souldiers to be Di&s;armed, and they put in re&s;traint in &s;everall lower Roumes in his hou&s;e; and then when he perceived no danger of oppo&s;ition, hee arre&s;ted the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck,</HI> charging him with Trea&s;on, and committed him clo&s;e Pri&s;oner, where hee detained him in Durance the &s;pace of a Yeare and upwards, without &s;uffering any man, except Serjeant Major <HI>Iames Galbraith</HI> to &s;peake unto him, which was but once, and that upon much importunity; who&s;e extreame mi&s;ery, was lamentably bewayled by all the men that were in that Garri&s;on. And then hee not onely &s;eized upon and kept his Ca&s;tle of <HI>Newtowne,</HI> putting a Guard of his owne into it, but al&s;o Plundered, and converted to his owne u&s;e, all his Money, Plate, Armes, Hou&s;hold&s;tuffe, Bedding, Furniture, and all other his goods what&s;oever, which hee had then a&s;well without as within Doores there, not &s;uffering his Souldiers to come out of Re&s;traint, or u&s;e their owne Armes, untill hee had unlawfully compelled them, to take an Oath to &s;erve as Souldiers under his onely Command. By rea|&s;on whereof, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck</HI> was utterly di&s;abled to performe farre greater and much more advantageous Services in every degree in that place for this honourable Parliament again&s;t the Rebels, then ever the Informer did, or could doe there, as this Re&s;pondent hath been credibly informed, a&s;well by the Te&s;timony of &s;undry other hone&s;t men, as by the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck</HI> him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Whereupon Sir <HI>Edward Povie</HI> Knight, who&s;e Daughter was the Wife of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Parck,</HI> together with others his Friends (being adverti&s;ed of his extreame hard u&s;age) Peti|tioned the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell of <HI>Ireland,</HI> for his removall to <HI>Dublin,</HI> to an&s;wer
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&s;uch matters as the Informer had to lay to his charge, and entred into Recognizance of 10000. l. for his appearance, upon which their Lord&s;hips by Order dated in May 1643, or thereabouts, required the Informer, to &s;et the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> at libertie, to be &s;ent either to Cap|taine <HI>Folliot</HI> to <HI>Bally&s;hannon,</HI> or unto this Re&s;pondent to <HI>Jniskillin,</HI> together with the mat|ters that he had to object again&s;t him. That &s;o he might be conveighed by them, or one of them to <HI>Londonderry,</HI> to be &s;ent from thence to <HI>Dublin.</HI> But the Informer (notwith&s;tand|ing the &s;aid Order was &s;hewed unto him) denyed obedience thereunto. And detained the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> &s;till in durance, untill his &s;aid friends procured &s;everall Orders commanding his inlargement, yet nothing would prevaile to that effect with him, untill that about the be|ginng of September 1643, Captaine <HI>King</HI> comming with a Troope of hor&s;e from <HI>Conaght</HI> into <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> about &s;ome bu&s;ine&s;&s;e he had with Sir <HI>William Stuart,</HI> and Sir <HI>Robert Stuart,</HI> he came about the 13. th of that Moneth to <HI>Jniskillin</HI> unto this Re&s;pondent, who &s;ent his En|&s;igne with 50 Mu&s;quettiers to guard the &s;aid Troope to the Abbey of <HI>Boyle</HI> in <HI>Conaght,</HI> which is about 40 myles from <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> who were &s;o farre from knowing, or allowing of the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation mentioned in the &s;aid fourth Article, that they fought with and kild &s;ome Rebels in the pa&s;&s;e of <HI>Ballinafadd,</HI> and tooke a pr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">y from thence to the <HI>Boyle,</HI> whence upon returne of the &s;aid En&s;igne, he came to Mannor <HI>Hamillon</HI> in his way, where he delivered a letter from this Re&s;pondent, to Lieutenant <HI>Lesley,</HI> the Informers Lievtenant, it being direc|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">d to the Informer, or in his ab&s;ence to the Officer in chiefe at Mannor <HI>Hamilton,</HI> with an Order of the Coppie of an Order which the Re&s;pondent received from the &s;aid Captaine <HI>Foliot</HI> in it directed al&s;o as afore&s;aid, from the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell of <HI>Jreland,</HI> for the inlargement of the &s;aid <HI>Parck;</HI> to be &s;ent to <HI>Iniskilin</HI> or <HI>Bally&s;hannon,</HI> which this Re&s;pon|dent left to his choi&s;e to doe, or not to doe, as be&s;t plea&s;ed the Informer or his &s;aid Officer; who &s;ent the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> along with the &s;aid En&s;igne, and becau&s;e he was &s;en&s;ible of the great mi&s;ery which he had wrongfully &s;u&s;tained by his Captaines &s;everity, he delivered to the &s;aid Ma&s;ter <HI>Parck,</HI> two of his owne hor&s;es, with &s;ome other little helpe toward his char|ges, as the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> told this Re&s;pondent when he came to <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> before which time, this Re&s;pondent was never acquainted with him, neither did this Re&s;pondent know, or ever heard, that he was affected to the Rebels, neither did he know any manner of certainty, of the concluding of the Ce&s;&s;ation with the &s;aid Rebels, untill he received advertizement toge|ther with a Proclamation to that effect, from the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell of <HI>Ireland</HI> the 23 of October 1643 or thereabouts, nor did he or could he obey the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation before or &s;ince that day, neither did he take any notice, whether the Informer or his wife and chil|dren were gone to <HI>London-derry,</HI> Neither was the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ormond</HI> at that time, Lord Iu&s;tice, Lord Deputy, or Lord Lieutenant of <HI>Ireland,</HI> nor did this Re&s;pondent receive any &s;uch Commands from his Lord&s;hip, to &s;end to the Informer, as in the &s;aid fourth Article is &s;urmized, neither did this Re&s;pondent looke for, or expect any indirect corre&s;ponding from the Informers Lieutenant.</P>
<P>And this Re&s;pondent &s;aith, That as a Pri&s;oner and poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Engli&s;hman his Countryman (being under bayle and mainprize as afore&s;aid) he gave &s;ome entertainment unto the &s;aid <HI>Parck,</HI> for &s;ome few weekes in his hou&s;e, farre &s;hort of fea&s;ting as the Informer tearmes it, and not finding &s;afety to convey him by the neere&s;t way to <HI>Dublin,</HI> He &s;ent a guard together with one <HI>Henry Langford,</HI> and other Engli&s;h and Scotchmen with him, to Mannor <HI>Hamilton</HI> againe, where he heard he was lodged for a Night, and where the Infor|mer or his Officer might have detained him if they plea&s;ed. But from thence he was con|veyed, by the &s;aid <HI>Langford</HI> and others to the Abbey of <HI>Boyle,</HI> whence after he recovered of a Feaver (whereof he had almo&s;t dyed) he repaired to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and according to the condi|tion of his &s;aid friends Recognizance, appeared before the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell at the Councell Board there, where how he was proceeded withall this Re&s;pondent knowoth not, Neither did this Re&s;pondent returne him back among&s;t the Rebels, neither doth he
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know whether any of them did accompany him to <HI>Dublin,</HI> neither doth this Re&s;pondent be|lieve that the &s;tate there would grant him an Order for Re&s;titution of his Ca&s;tle, with what|&s;oever Armes or Goods were in it, unle&s;&s;e it appeared to them, that hee was wrongfully expul&s;ed by the Informer. And this Re&s;pondent &s;aith, that he heard, that by vertue of &s;uch Order of the State, the &s;aid Ca&s;tle was re&s;tored unto him; and that hee keepes it, as the re&s;t of the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> Forces in <HI>Conaght</HI> doth their Holds for the Parliament &s;ervice. For upon the 25. th of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t (as this Re&s;pondent hath been informed,) The &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> his Souldiers of <HI>Newtowne,</HI> with the Informers Souldiers, did &s;poyle and prey the Rebels at <HI>Dromaheare,</HI> within &s;ix miles of <HI>Ca&s;tle-hamilton,</HI> and two miles of Ma&s;ter <HI>Parcks</HI> Ca&s;tle of <HI>Newtowne,</HI> &s;o as the Informers alogation, that he and the Rebels makes good that Ca&s;tle a|gain&s;t the Parliament, to the prejudice of the Parliaments &s;ervice, and the danger and ha|zard of all tho&s;e parts of <HI>Conaght,</HI> is meerely &s;urmized, invented, and devi&s;ed, of purpo&s;e (as this Re&s;pondent conceives) to make him odious on the one &s;ide, that the Informer may thereby the better worke his malice again&s;t him, and on the other&s;ide, to bring the &s;aid Ma|&s;ter <HI>Parck</HI> into the di&s;plea&s;ure of the Parliament, whereby he may make way to gaine his E&s;tate.</P>
<P>And this Re&s;pondent further &s;aith, that hee never knew, or heard of any Orders or Com|mands, &s;ent unto the Informer, by the &s;aid Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ormond,</HI> to the &s;aid Ma&s;ter <HI>Parck,</HI> neither did hee know, or doth beleeve the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> to be an utter enemy to the Parliament or their proceedings, nor doth he know, neither doth it concerne him, whether the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Taaffe,</HI> did by his Letters &s;olicite the Informer for the delivery of the &s;aid <HI>Parck.</HI> But this Re&s;pondent doth beleeve in his con&s;cience that if the &s;aid <HI>Parck</HI> had but 1000. l. in the world, he would give 500. l. of it to be heere now, to be a mo&s;t humble &s;uiter to this ho|nourable Parliament for remedy again&s;t the &s;aid Informer, for the&s;e and many other intol|lerable wrongs, and high oppre&s;&s;ions done him by the &s;aid Informer. And this Re&s;pondent humbly craveth leave, to declare further the behaviour of the &s;aid Informer, towards <HI>Tho|mas Abbertromy</HI> E&s;quire, a Prote&s;tant and principall undertaker in that Plantation, and &s;ometimes high Sheriffe of that County, who&s;e E&s;tate there bordered upon the Informers, within a mile of his Ca&s;tle, whom he al&s;o Impri&s;oned, and kept in mi&s;erable durance, for a long time, out of the malice which in particular he bore to him&s;elfe, and al&s;o unto his Father in law Sir <HI>Iohn Dunbarre</HI> Knight, and <HI>Iames Dunbarre</HI> E&s;quire, his brother in law, not &s;uffer|ing any to wa&s;h his linnen, but was nece&s;&s;itated, with his owne hands, to wa&s;h his &s;hirts, in his owne Vrine. And at length being &s;et at liberty, the poore Gentleman with his wife and children came (in great want of all nece&s;&s;aries) to <HI>Iniskillin</HI> to this Re&s;pondent, who u&s;ed meanes to releeve them untill he conveyed them towards his native Country of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>And further this Re&s;pondent &s;aith, that (as he hath been credibly Informed by divers hone&s;t Prote&s;tants, who well knew the Informers evill carriages, to tho&s;e that were under his command, and more e&s;pecially to the Prote&s;tants that fled from Sir <HI>Iohn Dunbarres</HI> Iron workes to his hou&s;e for &s;afeguard of their lives) the Informer compelled many of them (without &s;ending guards or convoyes with them) to depart from his Garri&s;on, in&s;omuch, as by their endeavouring to travell 20 miles over Mountainous wayes towards <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> many of them were murthered in their journey by the Rebels. And in particular twelve or four|teene per&s;ons at one time, and divers of them fami&s;hed through hunger and cold, which will be proved by &s;undry men and women of the &s;ame Companies, who&s;e fortune it was (through Gods Providence) to e&s;cape tho&s;e dangers. And are now re&s;ident partly under this Re&s;pondent at <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> and others of them di&s;per&s;edly dwelling among&s;t other Regl|ments, in <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> and el&s;ewhere.</P>
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<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P N="5">5. To the fifth Article this Re&s;pondent &s;aith, that he did not know in the Moneth of <HI>Fe|bruary,</HI> after the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation, whether or no the &s;aid Lord Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ormond,</HI> was
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Lord Lievtenant of <HI>Jreland;</HI> nor whether he was declared an Enemy to the Parliament, not did he heare any other then that he was gracious and acceptable unto the Parliament, untill this Re&s;pondent was now upon his journey to <HI>London,</HI> and &s;ayeth that after concluding of the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation (which how acceptable it was to the Parliament, this Re&s;pondent being &s;o remote, under&s;tood not) He by vertue of a Commi&s;&s;ion dated in <HI>November</HI> or <HI>December</HI> 1641. from Sir <HI>William Par&s;ons</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Borlace</HI> then Lords Iu&s;tices of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Councell there, did upon the 29 of <HI>Iannuary</HI> 1643 or thereabouts, receive <HI>Tirlagh Og Mac Gawran,</HI> and &s;ome followers of his, being Inhabitants of the Barony of <HI>Tallag<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">aph</HI> in the County of <HI>Cavan,</HI> together with their goods into protection, appoynting them &s;ome quarters to dwell and gra&s;e upon, neere <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> untill directions to the contrary &s;hould come from the Parliament, and that upon agreement, that they &s;hould pay 70. I. in Money or Victuals by a time limited, towards the better &s;ub&s;i&s;tance of the Soulders of this Re&s;pondents Regi|ment, for the pre&s;erving of that Garri&s;on, who&s;e provi&s;ions being then neere &s;pent, had no hopes to be &s;upplyed by the State there, and as little expectation to be furni&s;hed in due time from hence, and the &s;aid protected men having delivered in one of their Kin&s;men unto this Re&s;pondent, to remaine in Pri&s;on at <HI>Iniskillin</HI> in pledge a&s;well for their Loyalties during their continuance upon the &s;aid Protection, as the paying of the &s;aid Contribution, and per|forming other duties, conformable to their agreement, gathered their goods from remote parts, and upon the &s;econd of <HI>February</HI> 1643 or thereabouts, were comming tothe quarters a&s;&s;igned to them by this Re&s;pondent, but by the way the Souldiers of the Informer, incoun|tering them, declared that they were in want of Victualls in their Garri&s;on, and although they would forbeare to kill them (for &s;o farre they agreed to the &s;aid Protection) yet they would and mu&s;t borrow &s;ome Cowes from them upon ticket, to be payed by the State, out of their entertainment, and thereupon tooke from them 3 or 400 Cowes, whereof their Offi|cers at <HI>Mannor-hamilton</HI> (upon the mediation of the Re&s;pondents Lievtenant Collonel) cau&s;ed the greate&s;t part to be re&s;tored againe unto the &s;aid owners, but refu&s;ed to deliver the re&s;t. Of which (upon the next occa&s;ion that this Re&s;pondent had to write to <HI>Dublin)</HI> at the reque&s;t of the &s;aid owners, he gave intimation unto the then Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell and thereupon, the &s;aid Lord Marque&s;&s;e being newly then, Lord Lievtenant of <HI>Ireland,</HI> did by his Warrant command, not onely the re&s;toring of the refidue of the &s;aid goods unto the owners, but withall required better corre&s;pondencie to be ob&s;erved for the future betweene the Officers and Souldiers of the Informer, and tho&s;e of <HI>Jniskillin,</HI> and not to cla&s;h or jarre betweene them&s;elves, but whether the &s;aid latter Order was obeyed as touching the re&s;titution of the &s;aid Goods, this Re&s;pondent knoweth not, and &s;ayeth that the Officers and Souldiers of the &s;aid Garri&s;ons, not in obedience to that Order, but of their owne mutuall accords (have ever &s;ince the Informer left tho&s;e parts) lived in better amitie, then ever they did, or could doe, while&s;t he continued there among&s;t them: Neverthele&s;&s;e this Re|&s;pondent &s;ayeth, that by rea&s;on of that impediment, offered by the Informers Souldiers as afore&s;aid, this Re&s;pondent and his &s;oulders lo&s;t the benefit of that bargaine to the great pre|judice of that Garri&s;on.</P>
<P>And &s;ayeth further, that the Informer or his Officers, received into his Protection (by what authority this Re&s;pondent could never yet under&s;tand) one <HI>Owin,</HI> or <HI>Iames Mac Mur|rey, Margaret Ny Cabe,</HI> and &s;undry other Rebels of the County of <HI>Letrym,</HI> and kept them and their goods upon his owne Lands of <HI>Glanfear<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> neere his Garri&s;on in that County, which will be proved by Certificate and &s;undry Letters of the date of <HI>January</HI> 1643. under the hand of his own Lievtenant and others.</P>
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<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P>To the &s;ixt Article, this Re&s;pondent denyeth that ever hee corre&s;ponded with the Rebels as by the &s;aid Informer is therein &s;ugge&s;ted, but &s;ayth that by vertue of the afore&s;aid Com|mi&s;&s;ion from the Lords Iu&s;tices and Councell of <HI>Ireland,</HI> he did receive into Protection one
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<HI>Bryan mac Coconaght mac Gwire</HI> E&s;quire, with 40 or 50 of his friends, Servants and Tenants who had &s;ome Goods of their owne to live opon, taking Pledges from &s;ome of them for a&s;|&s;urance of their loyalties, which Protection this Re&s;pondent humbly conceiveth was lawfull for him to grant unto the &s;aid <HI>Bryan Magwire</HI> for the Rea&s;ons following, <HI>vizt.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, for that upon the 21. th of <HI>October</HI> 1641. hee di&s;covered unto this Re&s;pondent by <HI>Flartagh mac Hugh</HI> afore-named, the purpo&s;e of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to ri&s;e into Rebellion upon <HI>Friday</HI> and <HI>Saturday,</HI> the 22. and 23. th of <HI>October</HI> afore&s;aid, advi&s;ing him and all the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Prote&s;tants in the Towne of <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> and County of <HI>Farmanagh,</HI> to be carefully upon their Defence; which this Re&s;pondent acknowledgeth was (by Gods mercy and provi|dence) the principall Motive that prevented the Murthering of this Re&s;pondent, and of all tho&s;e Prote&s;tants that e&s;caped that bloudy Ma&s;&s;acre thereabouts.</P>
<P>Secondly, for that the &s;aid <HI>Bryan</HI> did refu&s;e to joyne in any Action with the Rebels, deny|ing to enter into their Oathes of Confederacy and a&s;&s;ociation again&s;t the Prote&s;tants, for which hee was in great danger to be cut off by them.</P>
<P>Thirdly, for that he pre&s;erved under his own Protection divers of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Nation, Pro|te&s;tants which together with &s;everall of their goods he brought &s;afe to <HI>Iniskillin,</HI> when he was &s;o received into Protection, as <HI>Ambro&s;e Carleton, Richard Irwing, Gawan Bettic,</HI> &amp; many others.</P>
<P>Fourthly, for that by receiving him, being an eminent man of <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> and allyed unto many Noble families, (both in <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland)</HI> It exceedingly abated the fury and cou|rage of the Rebels, and di&s;tracted their Con&s;ultations in tho&s;e Parts, and wholly di&s;-joyned the Forces of the Rebels in that County, by dividing them&s;elves into factions; and no le&s;&s;e di&s;heartned tho&s;e of the next adjoyning Counties, which in that interim, and for a long time acter did abundantly advantage and further the publique Service.</P>
<P>Fiftly, for that in further Evidence of his loyaltie to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Crowne and Govern|ment, hee pre&s;ented a Letter unto this Re&s;pondent, which came unto him from <HI>Owin mac Artt O Neille</HI> (Vncle of the Lord <HI>Magwire,</HI> and Generall of the Rebels in <HI>Vl&s;ter)</HI> who late|ly before, arived in <HI>Ireland,</HI> with Men, Armes, and Ammunition, out of We&s;t <HI>Flanders,</HI> which Letter is as followeth, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<LETTER>
<HEAD><HI>To our loving and deere Cozen</HI> Bryan mac Coconaght Magwire.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Loving Cozen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>KNow that I am arrived at this Harbour, nine or ten dayes past, whether I &s;ent before me a&s;much Ammnuition as J deemed needfull to an&s;wer the Nece&s;&s;ity of this Country: and that I have heere now, Men and Provi&s;ions &s;uch as (by the leave of God) will give great Comfort and &s;uccour unto this whole Kingdome. But beloved Cozen, I am given to under&s;tand that (notwith&s;tan|ding your &s;ufferance and di&s;tre&s;&s;e) you are abundantly inclined to &s;ide with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, which indeed doth exceedingly grieve me; Wherefore I will have you from henceforth (as you tender your owne good) to bani&s;h tho&s;e thoughts out of your mind, and not to pur&s;ue tho&s;e Re&s;olutions, which in the end may be the occa&s;ion of your owne De&s;truction, as I thinke it will be to all tho&s;e who&s;e minds will appeare contrary to ours, let the&s;e &s;uffice with the addage of many &s;a|lutes unto you, from <HI>Ca&s;tle-Doe</HI> the <HI>18.</HI> th of <HI>July, 1642.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your affectionate Kin&s;man,
Signed,</HI> Owen O Ner&s;le.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
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And be&s;ides, the &s;aid <HI>Bryan</HI> gained intelligence of great concernment, from the Enemy and di&s;covered it at all times, and upon all occa&s;ions unto this Re&s;pondent, who made great u&s;e thereof for the furtherance and advancement of the publique Service; whereof this Re&s;pon|dent made report by his Letters unto Sir <HI>William Par&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Burla&s;e,</HI> then Lords Iu&s;tices of <HI>Ireland</HI> and the Councell there, to whom hee did &s;end the &s;aid <HI>Bryan Magwire,</HI> to <HI>Dublin;</HI> who did not onely approve of this Re&s;pondents act in receiving of him and his men into Protection as afore&s;aid, but al&s;o (as this Re&s;pondent was informed) did further &s;ignifie unto this Hon: Parliament, the affection and &s;ervice of the &s;aid <HI>Bryan,</HI> with their de&s;ires in his behalfe that hee &s;hould be rewarded for the &s;ame. And afterward their Lord&s;hips retur|ned the &s;aid <HI>Bryan</HI> unto this Re&s;pondent, allowing him and his men to be continued upon Protection at <HI>Iniskillin;</HI> Necre unto which Garri&s;on hee remaines loyall even at this time, but in a mo&s;t mi&s;erable condition for want of Nece&s;&s;aries. And this Re&s;pondent denyeth that ever he did forme the &s;aid Protected men into a Company, con&s;i&s;ting of a Captain and Officers, as in the &s;aid &s;ixth Article is meerly devi&s;ed and &s;urmized, but did imploy them under the leading of &s;ome of the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> Gentlemen of his Garri&s;on, upon &s;ervice many times, with the re&s;t of his Regiment again&s;t the Rebels, wherein they were of abundant u&s;e, a&s;well for Spyes and Guids, as by killing and de&s;troying the Enemy as effectually as others did; And (for ought knowne to this Re&s;pondent) did no di&s;-&s;ervice at any time unto the State, in giving Intelligence again&s;t all or any of the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> of their proceedings, and di|vers of the &s;aid Protected men, being taken Pri&s;oners at &s;everall times, by the Rebels, were put to Death for taking part with this Re&s;pondent. But this Re&s;pondent denieth, that all the &s;aid Protected men did take their opportunity to turne to the Rebels againe as is &s;urmized, but &s;ome few that did (leaving their Pledge which they gave for a&s;&s;urance of their loyaltie, in Pri&s;on at <HI>Jniskillin)</HI> this Re&s;pondent cau&s;ed him to be Hanged, when they proved Di&s;|loyall. And this Re&s;pondent humbly conceiveth, That as <HI>Rahab</HI> and her Parents, Family and friends for her &s;ake, were pre&s;erved in <HI>Iericho</HI> for &s;aving the two Spyes of <HI>Io&s;hua;</HI> &s;o this Hon: Parliament will be plea&s;ed to thinke, that this Re&s;pondent did no Di&s;-&s;ervice unto the State in Protecting and pre&s;erving of the &s;aid <HI>Bryan Magwire,</HI> and &s;ome of his Friends for his &s;ake; who was the In&s;trument of the &s;aving of the Lives of many thou&s;ands of Prote|&s;tants (even Gods people) from being utterly de&s;troyed by the fury of the &s;aid bloudy Rebels.</P>
<P>And for an&s;wer unto that expre&s;&s;ion where|with <NOTE PLACE="marg">* <HI>Note, that &s;ince this An&s;wer was &s;ent into the Commons hou&s;e of Parliament, Sir</HI> William Cole <HI>received a Letter of the</HI> 8. <HI>of</HI> Ia|nuary, 1644. <HI>written by one of the Captaines of his Regiment from</HI> Iniskillin; <HI>certifying that about that time,</HI> 40 <HI>Hor&s;e and</HI> 120 <HI>Foot of that Garri&s;on, fought with and routed</HI> 500 <HI>Foot and</HI> 3. <HI>Troopes of Hor&s;e of the Rebels, conducted by Collonel</HI> Philip O Rely, <HI>wherein they not onely re&s;cued their owne Cattle which were Plundered by the Enemy: but al&s;o killed</HI> 140 <HI>of them in the place, and tooke</HI> 55. <HI>Pri&s;oners, whereof are Officers, one Serjeant Major,</HI> 3 <HI>Cap|taines, two Lieutenants, with divers Gentl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">men and other Officers. Whereby it appeares, that neither the &s;aid Sir</HI> William, <HI>or his Souldiers did any way corre&s;pond with the Rebels &s;ince the Ce&s;&s;ation before.</HI></NOTE> the &s;aid Informer &s;eems to conclude his Information, by &s;aying he could informe ma|ny other particular omi&s;&s;ions and di&s;-&s;ervices, which the &s;aid Re&s;pondent hath co~mitted in this time of his imployment, &amp;c. The Re|&s;pondent &s;aith, that hee conceiveth the Infor|mer meanes it, by the &s;candalous calumnies and a&s;per&s;ions dige&s;ted in fifteene places of that Pamphlet, printed at <HI>London</HI> in <HI>An. Dom.</HI> 1643. wherein his Services are regi&s;tred, and
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wherein this Re&s;pondent and his Captaines, Officers, and Souldiers, are mo&s;t injuriou&s;ly taxed, with often reiterations of unworthy and meane cari|age towards him, for that they did not wait upon him, upon all his calls, which this Re&s;pondent conceiveth was more then he was bound to doe fur|ther then to this Re&s;pondent would &s;eeme fit, for the good of the publique &s;ervice; e&s;pecially when as at the &s;ame very times (w^c^h was long before the Ce&s;&s;ation) he was imployed about &s;ervices of farre greater and better concern|ment in the Counties of <HI>Fermanagh, Cavan, Monaghan, Tirone, Donegall, Letrim,</HI> or <HI>Sligoe,</HI> which hath formerly been well knowne both in <HI>Ireland</HI> and el&s;ewhere.</P>
<P>And this Re&s;pondent further &s;heweth, that immediatly after the &s;aid Ce&s;|&s;ation, this Re&s;pondents Regiment de&s;troyed 295 of the Rebels and fami&s;h|ed many hundreds of them, and al&s;o tooke in <HI>Rory mac Gwires</HI> Ca&s;tle, which is now pre&s;erved for the Parliaments u&s;e; And afwell then as before did re&s;|cue, or otherwi&s;e redeem from the &s;aid Rebels 5467 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Pro|te&s;tants, and relieved them for many Moneths, out of the &s;poyles gained from the Enemy, untill that in his owne per&s;on hee guarded and conveyed great numbers of them towards <HI>London-derry,</HI> where further care was taken for their reliefe by the good people there: And &s;aith al&s;o, that he this Re&s;pon|dent was one of the fir&s;t Collonels of the <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> Regiments in <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> which did imbrace and take the &s;olemne League and Covenant, which hee humbly conceives will not be deemed to be Omi&s;&s;ions or Di&s;-&s;ervices, as the Infor|mer tearmes them: who &s;ince his comming hither, hath not onely laboured to Defame the Re&s;pondent, but al&s;o hath taxed the re&s;t of the Collonels in <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> for their Neglects in their &s;ervice, who (in this Re&s;pondents opinion) have done much better Service than either of them.</P>
<P>Yet did this Re&s;pondent &s;everall times &s;hew his de&s;ires in a mo&s;t effectuall manner to helpe and relieve the &s;aid Informer; for having received a pitti|full Me&s;&s;age from him about the 26 of <HI>Iuly</HI> 1642. That hee, his Wife, Chil|dren, and Souldiers, were like to be de&s;troyed by Nine hundred of the Re|bels that then be&s;ieged him; This Re&s;pondent immediatly &s;ent a party of Foure hundred Hor&s;e and Foot for his Reliefe, with Orders that after they had releeved the Informer they &s;hould returne within 48 houres; This Re|&s;pondent being then threatned to be Be&s;ieged, by the Generall of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Forces <HI>Owin mac Art O Neille</HI> with 6000 Men. But when the Re&s;pondents Lieutenant Collonel came to the Informer with this Partie, they found him not at all be&s;ieged nor in no &s;uch extremity as hee pretended, but per|ceived hee &s;ent this pre&s;&s;ing Me&s;&s;age, onely to get &s;ome of the Re&s;pondents men with him to take in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dromoheare,</HI> which without Ord|nance they could not have effected, though being come, at his importu|nity
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they attempted, in conclu&s;ion to no other purpo&s;e, then to de&s;troy their Men.</P>
<P>Whereupon his Officers and Souldiers returned on the 29. th of <HI>July</HI> from him having received many affronts and abu&s;es. And on the 20 of <HI>May</HI> following this Re&s;pondent intending &s;ome &s;ervice, in the Province of <HI>Co|naght</HI> drew forth about 500 hor&s;e and foot, and Leaguring within two miles of the Informers Garri&s;on, was importuned with much earne&s;tne&s;&s;e, to come unto him to Chri&s;ten his Sonne, which the Re&s;pondent (conceiving to be an act of Charity and Chri&s;tianity) con&s;ented unto, expecting, &s;uch civility, as might bee an&s;werable to &s;o neighbourly an Office. But both him&s;elfe and tho&s;e few Officers he carryed with him, received &s;uch gro&s;&s;e di&s;rc&s;pect, that he will not defile your eares with the hearing it.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;&s;e, God having ble&s;t the Re&s;pondent in his journey with &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e again&s;t the Enemy, hee gave him for the reliefe of his Garri&s;on Two hundred fifty nine Cowes; There going with him in his Journey of their owne accord of the men belonging to his Garri&s;on, onely 38 Footmen and 12 Hor&s;e.</P>
<P>He moreover then be&s;towed upon his good Lady 1000 Sheepe, and what he be&s;towed on tho&s;e Gentlemen of his Ladies kindred, and his Officers, who went in a friendly manner with this Re&s;pondent, the Jnformer &s;uffered them not to enjoy, but converted to his own u&s;e.</P>
<P>The&s;e civilities, which this Re&s;pondent is mo&s;t unwillingly drawne to mention, he conceived might de&s;erve more thankes, and not to be him&s;elfe and his Regiment, exclaimed again&s;t by the Informer, meerely to render him and them odious, in all places where his tongue gets any credit.</P>
<P>In the time of Peace, his carriage towards his neighbours was &s;o full of contention, that there was hardly any man of quality or worth neere him, in the Province of <HI>Conaght,</HI> that he had not laboured to injure and oppre&s;&s;e, either in their E&s;tates or reputations, if not in both, &s;o that before the Re|bellion began, &s;uch his carriages made him extreamely di&s;ta&s;tfull to men of all conditions, that lived within 20 or 30 miles of him in that Province, which will be evidenced by divers of his Neighbours, of the be&s;t qualitie, now in this Citie, if they may be called upon for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>And particularly this Re&s;pondent, repre&s;enteth to your further notice, &s;omething of the Informers demeanour towards &s;ome of his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed neigh|bours in the hands of the Rebels, decyphered in the&s;e two &s;hort in&s;uing Letters, Printed in the latter end of that Booke of his owne Services, Page 57. <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<LETTER>
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<HEAD><HI>Sir</HI> Robert Hannay's <HI>Letter and other Prote&s;tants being Pri&s;o|ners at</HI> Sligoe, <HI>are &s;ent to</HI> Dromaheare <HI>Ca&s;tle.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honourable Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WEe the undernamed per&s;ons having &s;uffered in all our whole E&s;tates, and being upon our bani&s;hment out of this Kingdome, under the &s;afe con|duct of Ma&s;ter <HI>Edmond Bourke</HI> of <HI>Ragagh</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Walter Bourke</HI> of <HI>Ardagh,</HI> towards the North, but mo&s;t oppo&s;ed at <HI>Ca&s;tle-Coner; Eni&s;cromme E&s;cagh-bridge, Downeill, Arnagla&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Tomler,</HI> goe by &s;everall bands of ar|med men, purpo&s;ely to &s;et for our lives, were not there extreame violence &s;uppre&s;|&s;ed by the di&s;cretion, worth and care of tho&s;e two Gentlemen, and we taken Pri&s;o|ners by the <HI>MacSwines,</HI> brought before <HI>O Coner-Sligoe</HI> where we now remain, and intended to be &s;ent to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dromaheare,</HI> to be kept untill you Sir deliver &s;ach Pri&s;oners of the <HI>O Roirkes</HI> and others, as you have in your eu&s;to|dy, or to be dealt with, as you doe unto them, Sir you are Nobly di&s;po&s;ed &s;o that in honour, we hope, the meanes of reliefe being in your &s;elfe, you will not &s;uffer us to peri&s;h who will ever remaine Sir</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours truly obliged to &s;erve you,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Signed <HI>Robert Hannay,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Adare,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Mountgomorie,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Li&s;ton,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Fullerton.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The&s;e be the names and number of the Pri&s;oners, Sir <HI>Robert Hannay,</HI> his Lady, his two Daughters, two Boyes, two men, and a gentlewoman, Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrew Adare</HI> and his wife and Si&s;ters Son, Ma&s;ter <HI>Alexander Mountgome|rie,</HI> his wife and elde&s;t &s;onne, Ma&s;ter <HI>William Li&s;ton,</HI> his Wife and Daughter, Ma&s;ter <HI>Thomas Fullerton</HI> and his Wife, <HI>Patrick Deomand</HI> Mr. <HI>Adares</HI> man.</P>
<P>Sir, after the writing of this Letter, we are brought to <HI>Dromaheare</HI> Ca&s;tle, and Order left with the Captaine to bring us unto the Camp at <HI>Mannor-ha|milton,</HI> where we mu&s;t &s;uffer death, if tho&s;e Pri&s;oners with you be not deli|vered.</P>
<LETTER>
<HEAD>Sir <HI>Frederick Hamiltons</HI> An&s;wer to the Letter afore-mentioned.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SIR,</HI> I have received your Letter, whereby I am given to under&s;tand of your treacherous &s;urpri&s;al notwith&s;tanding of your &s;afe conduct promi&s;ed, for the which I am very &s;orry. But &s;uch is the trecherous fal&s;hood of tho&s;e di&s;loyal Tray|tors generally throughout this whole Kingdome, that hoth made me Vow and
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&s;weare in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, that I will never give or take quarter, with them or any of them, yea though my own Sons that di&s;cended from my loynes were in your e&s;tate, I had rather they &s;hould dye gloriou&s;ly for the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, then I &s;hould &s;o aba&s;e my &s;elfe, as to deale with &s;uch Traytors to God and his Maje&s;ty. Thus be&s;eeching God Almighty to &s;trengthen and incourage you that you may continue con&s;tant, untill it &s;hall plea&s;e God to give you deliverance ei|ther by life or death. In the meane time I am per&s;waded that they will u&s;e you with no wor&s;e mea&s;ure, then their Pri&s;oners, who were apprehended by me in the action of Rebellion are u&s;ed, &s;o recommending you to God I re&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very loving friend, <HI>Frederick Hamilton.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Ca&s;tle-Hamilton, <DATE>Ianuary the <HI>19, 1641.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>And after he delvered this letter unto the Me&s;&s;enger, he hanged the chiefe of the Pri&s;oners (being brother to Collonel <HI>O Roirke</HI> who was de&s;ired by this exchange) in the &s;ight of the Me&s;&s;enger before he would permit him to depart, upon who&s;e returne to the Rebels they in revenge thereof, Mur|thered about 10 or 11 of the &s;aid Prote&s;tants, whereof two were Godly Mi|ni&s;ters, and yet if their mercy, and Compa&s;&s;ion in the mid&s;t of their Barba|rity had not farre tran&s;cended Sir <HI>Frederick Hamiltons,</HI> they had likewi&s;e put Sir <HI>Robert Hannay</HI> and his Lady and Children and all the re&s;t to death.</P>
<P>And that his ill di&s;po&s;ition may the more fully appeare, he hath with &s;tri|king and other ill u&s;age &s;o behaved him&s;elfe, toward his Officers, that his Lieutenant, En&s;igne, Mini&s;ter and one of his Serjeants have all for&s;aken him, &s;o that he hath now no Officers, but one Serjeant to Command his Company, at <HI>Mannor-Hamilton</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of 70 men or thereabouts.</P>
<P>And notwith&s;tanding all this, the &s;aid Informer is labouring for the Go|vernment of <HI>Londonderry,</HI> and becau&s;e he conceived he might prevaile in that &s;ure if his mi&s;cariages were not di&s;covered, he moved this Re&s;pondent, that all the differences betwixt them, might be compo&s;ed by the order of friends, which motion if this Re&s;pondent would then have accepted, he conceives this information had never beene heard of.</P>
<P>And as touching the Government of <HI>Londonderry,</HI> afore&s;aid this Re&s;pon|dent humbly de&s;ires leave to declare that once it was conferred upon Sir <HI>George Pawlet,</HI> a man who&s;e temper in &s;ome things, was not much unlike this of the Informers, who&s;e pa&s;&s;ionate demeanour in his Office, was not onely the occa&s;ion of the lo&s;&s;e of his own life, but of the lo&s;&s;e al&s;o of the lives of many of this Nation there, and the burning of that Towne, with the kind|ling of a violent (though as it happened) but a &s;hort Rebellion in the Coun|try thereabouts, which did put the State then, to much unnece&s;&s;ary expences in the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of it.</P>
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All which together with the premi&s;&s;es, this Re&s;pondent humbly repre&s;ent|eth as pertinent in&s;tances, and rea&s;ons to induce the honourable Parliament, not to put the Government thereof into the power of the Informer, who&s;e demeanour will never be brooked, by tho&s;e good people that now inhabit there, upon whom, all the a&s;per&s;ions that are layd by any late reports or prin|ted letters, (this Re&s;pondent beleeves) were invented and contrived by the Informer, or his In&s;truments, of purpo&s;e to make them dete&s;tablee to this Honourable Parliament, whom this Re&s;pondent is confident, are as Loyal, and well wi&s;hing to the Parliament as can be expected, and will really witne&s;&s;e the &s;ame, by their ready and joyfull receiving and obeying of any Gover|nour (except Sir <HI>Frederick Hamilton)</HI> that the Parliament will be plea&s;ed to appoint over them. But his conditions are &s;o well knowne unto them, that they will quit their fortunes and &s;tations there, which they have hitherto pre&s;erved, with &s;o much expence and hazard, rather then &s;ubmit unto his Command.</P>
<CLOSER>And this Re&s;pondent mo&s;t humbly de&s;ires this honourable Committee, would be plea&s;ed to pardon him if hee have tre&s;pa&s;&s;ed upon your Patience, in an&s;were to the Charge given in by the Informer, be|ing nece&s;&s;itated thereunto, for his more ample Vindication, by lay|ing open the di&s;po&s;ition of the Informer, which hee hath mo&s;t un|nece&s;&s;arily drawne upon him&s;elfe, without any provocations given to him, by this Re&s;pondent. And humbly prayes &s;uch reparations as in your Wi&s;domes &s;hall be thought fit.
<SIGNED><HI>Signed,</HI> WILLIAM COLE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Exhibited</HI> <DATE>11 <HI>of</HI> January, 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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