sentences:  In March 1647 the parliament seems to have accepted his services, and as a Colonel, sent him to Ireland, where he landed on 30 April 1647.He was colonel of a regiment at Drogheda in 1648.In 1650, after being shot in the head at the Battle of Dungan's Hill in County Meath, he returned to England, where he busied himself in 'discovering' papists' and other delinquents' estates.