COLE, John (c.1620-91), of Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh, and Newland, co. Dublin.

Family and Education

b. c. 1620, 2nd s. of Sir William Cole of Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh, and Susanna, da. and h. of John Croft of Lancs. m. (bef. 1660) Elizabeth, da. of Hon. John Chichester of Dungannon, 4s. 7da.Misc. Gen et Her. ser. 1, ii. 242-3. cr. bt. 23 Jan. 1661. d. bef. Oct. 1691.CB.

Offices Held

Military: ?capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Sir William Cole, army in Ireland, 1641 – 48; col. by Sept. 1650-Aug. 1653. 1654 – ?59SP28/70, f. 762; SP28/71, ff. 160, 170; SP28/72, f. 52; SP28/76, f. 358; SP28/93, f. 102; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 620, 636–7. Gov. Enniskillen 27 Feb., by July 1662-aft. Jan. 1667;Lodge, Peerage, iv. 209; HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 242, 245; Bodl. Carte 163, f. 23v. Dublin Castle Jan. 1661-bef. July 1662.Bodl. Carte 158, pp. 6, 24. Lt.-col. of ft. regt. of John Clerke II*, c.1655–12 July 1659.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 182; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 12. Capt. of ft. royal army in Ireland, 1660-aft. 1666.CSP Ire. 1669–70, p. 388; HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 242, 245, 307, 347.

Irish: commr. delinquents, Belturbet Precinct 21 Nov. 1653;Lodge, Peerage, iv. 209. assessment, co. Fermanagh 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655, 1657). J.p. 1655–?C. McCoy, ‘War and Revolution: County Fermanagh and its borders, c.1640-c.1666’ (PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin 2008), 364. Commr. poll money, cos. Dublin and Fermanagh 24 Apr. 1660–1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 621, 625, 639, 645. Custos rot. co. Fermanagh 2 Apr. 1661.CB. Commr. settlement of Ireland by 12 Apr. 1661.NAI, Lodge’s MSS 1.A.53.55, ff. 131–2; CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 188. MP, co. Fermanagh 1661–6.CJI i. 590. Licenser of gunpowder, 16 Oct. 1661.CSP Ire. 1660–2, p. 442. Sheriff, co. Fermanagh 1666–7. Commr. 1649 officers, 26 Oct. 1676.CB. PC by Nov. 1678–85.HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 352–62.

: of Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh and co. Dublin., Newland.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

COLE, John (c.1620-91), of Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh, and Newland, co. Dublin.

Will

1 Aug. 1688, pr. 3 Oct. 1691.CB.

Estates

granted lands in co. Galway by Irish council, Apr. 1653.Eg. 1762, f. 207v. On d. of fa. bef. Oct. 1653 inherited great meadow, Enniskillen, and little island near Rossory, Lough Earne.PRONI, D/1702/1/27/1; McCoy, ‘Fermanagh’, 370. Purchased land in cos. Monaghan and Fermanagh, and acquired an estate at Newland, co. Dublin, bef. 1658-9;Lodge, Peerage, iv. 209; Irish Census, 1659, 150, 371. granted lease of lands in co. Meath, June 1670;CSP Ire. 1669-70, p. 153. purchased property in High Street, Dublin, Nov. 1670.NLI, D.9450. In 1670 landholdings included 48 townlands in Clanawly barony, co. Fermanagh, 14 in Upper Ormond, co. Tipperary, and 31 in Middlethird, co. Waterford.Down Survey website.

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