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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
Sentenc’t: Thomas Peirson and Adam Knight, being
found guilty by their owne confession of searching for
armes without orders and taking of plunder, are sentenc’t:
To ride the horse an hower with a muskett att each heele,
and the fault writt uppon their backs, ‘ For searching for
armes without orders, and for taking of plunder.’1
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL.2 September 19,1651.
Eight souldiers that were taken out of their quarters
after the tattoo beaten.
Order’d, that noe man should bee out of his quarters,
nor sitt uppe drinking in their quarters after the tattoe
beaten.
A sharpe reproof given them, which was done by the
president.
Order’d, that noe souldier draw beere without orders.
Information of Major Dorney against Henry Sparkes,
corporall to Major Rede in Col. Fenwick’s regiment,
David Pew and John Humphries. Read as followeth :
The information of Major Henry Dorney taken upon
oath in the Court Marshall, Sept. 19, 1651.
That yesterday, being Thursday the 18 instant, haveing
newly given out orders on the churchyard at Dundee,
he heard a souldier whose name is David Pew (as he
cals himself being with them that play’d), swearing in a
grosse manner, which to his remembrance was ‘ by God’s
bloud and wounds ’ ; that afterwards about 11 of the
clock att night, walking to view the guards neere the
Lt. Generali’s quarters in Dundee, he heard much swearing
amongst a company of souldiers, and amongst the rest
hee looked in at a window and tooke particular notice
of 2, whose names are (as hee is since inform’d), John
Humphryes and Henry Sparkes, to be more emenently
1 This is the case referred to by Whitelock.—Memorials, vol. iii. p. 354-5-
2 The lists of officers present at this and all subsequent courts-martial have
been omitted, but their names are given in the table on pp. 66-7.
DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
Sentenc’t: Thomas Peirson and Adam Knight, being
found guilty by their owne confession of searching for
armes without orders and taking of plunder, are sentenc’t:
To ride the horse an hower with a muskett att each heele,
and the fault writt uppon their backs, ‘ For searching for
armes without orders, and for taking of plunder.’1
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL.2 September 19,1651.
Eight souldiers that were taken out of their quarters
after the tattoo beaten.
Order’d, that noe man should bee out of his quarters,
nor sitt uppe drinking in their quarters after the tattoe
beaten.
A sharpe reproof given them, which was done by the
president.
Order’d, that noe souldier draw beere without orders.
Information of Major Dorney against Henry Sparkes,
corporall to Major Rede in Col. Fenwick’s regiment,
David Pew and John Humphries. Read as followeth :
The information of Major Henry Dorney taken upon
oath in the Court Marshall, Sept. 19, 1651.
That yesterday, being Thursday the 18 instant, haveing
newly given out orders on the churchyard at Dundee,
he heard a souldier whose name is David Pew (as he
cals himself being with them that play’d), swearing in a
grosse manner, which to his remembrance was ‘ by God’s
bloud and wounds ’ ; that afterwards about 11 of the
clock att night, walking to view the guards neere the
Lt. Generali’s quarters in Dundee, he heard much swearing
amongst a company of souldiers, and amongst the rest
hee looked in at a window and tooke particular notice
of 2, whose names are (as hee is since inform’d), John
Humphryes and Henry Sparkes, to be more emenently
1 This is the case referred to by Whitelock.—Memorials, vol. iii. p. 354-5-
2 The lists of officers present at this and all subsequent courts-martial have
been omitted, but their names are given in the table on pp. 66-7.
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| Description | Third volume. Contents: Dundee court-martial records, 1651 / edited by Godfrey Davies -- The bishop of Galloway's correspondence, 1679-1685 / edited by William Douglas -- The diary of Sir James Hope, 1646-1654 / edited by Sir James Balfour Paul -- Instructions for the trial of Patrick Graham, 1476 / edited by Robert Kerr Hannay -- The Scottish contributions to the distressed church of France, 1622 / edited by D. Hay Fleming -- The Forbes baron court book, 1659-1678 / edited by J. Maitland Thomson. |
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