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80 ACeOUNT OF
force; for when the regent Murray^ ia
1567, commiffioned Sir William Murray
and Kirkcaldy of Grange to purfue after
Earl Bothwell, who, upon the furrendero£
Q. Mary at Carberryhill, to her dirconteni:-
ed and violent fubjects, had betaken him-
feif to piracy, the magiftrates were ordered
to charge Thomas Cryftal and Thonaas Da-
vidfon, mailers of the James, Thomas Kifi-
loch, mailer of the Primrofe, John Fotli-
ringham and George Lochmalony, owners^
and Alexander Strachan, mailer of the Ro-
bert, to fend their veffels on this expediti-
on, and of thefe Kirkcaldy's fleet was prin-
cipally compofed.
Next century, when Charles II. in 1650,
arrived from Holland, and was crowned by
the Covenanters, king, at Scone, we find,
that previous to his coronation, and whily.
he Collected his forces, Dundee was one of
the principal places of his refidence, and
where he obtained the mod cordial recep-
tion. Behdes large contributions to his af-
fiftance in money, the magiftrates and in-
habitants raifed fome troops of horfe for
}ilm art their own expence, and prefented
him with a Jlately pavilion, and fix pieces
of ordnance. — About the fame time the
veffels belonging to Dundee were not much
lefs numerous than at prefent. It is faid.