Series 2 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society

DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
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Commanded to withdraw in regard the third man was
nott there and noe newes of the boy, whether kill’d or noe.1
Thomas Peirson and Adam Knight, two of Capt. Daw-
borne’s troope, committed by Col. Ashfeild for meeting
with a boy neere the towne, forcing him to discover goods
that were hid neere the sheepens in a chest.
Adam Knight, confes’t, that the boy look’t to his
horse, that going into the feild they ask’t him where any
armes were hid, hee said hee could tell where there was
a sword, a muskett, and a chest in the sheepepens, that
they went to itt, and one carried one pack and the other
another, and there came a man and said the goods were
his, and hee would give them mony for them, for they
were his.
The Scotts boye sayes hee was sheering corne, that
they inquir’d for armes, that hee brought them to the
chest, that they gave him cloathes.
Question. Whether Thomas Peirson and Adam Knight
bee alike guilty and to bee tryed uppon the Article of
Misdemeanour ? Resolved in the affirmative.
Adj. Gen. Dennis. Guilty of a sharpe reproof.
Lt. Powell. Reproof.
Capt. Baynes. Ride the horse with his fault uppon his
back an hower.
Capt. Lingwood. Ride the horse an hower with a
muskett att each heele and writt uppon his back :
‘ For searching for armes without order, and for
taking of plunder.’
Capt. Groome. The same.
„ Morgan. The same.
,, Lee. The same.
Major Dorney. To ride the wooden horse and after
that to bee taken downe and receive ten stripes.
Lt. Col. Brayne. The same as Capt. Lingwood.
„ „ Gough. The same.
Col. Ashfeild. The same.
1 Acquitted 23 September, no evidence being offered.