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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
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Richard Wright, sentenc’t, to ride the horse under the
gallowes with a rope about his neck and the hide uppon
his back an hower with 2 musketts att each heele.
James Watts, the countryman, to have a sharpe reproof.
Found guilty uppon the oaths of 2 witnesses, James
Grahame : Sentenc’t, to bee whip’t from Bonnett Hill to
Westgate with 60 lashes, and to bee imprison’d, after¬
wards during the Lieutent. Generali’s pleasure.1
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL. Oct. 31, 1651.
The examinations of Sergt. Wood, Corporall Bond,
and Sergt. Clarke2 concerning Abr. Randall, and John
Browne read.
The examination of Sergt. Wood, sergeant to Capt.
Parker, taken upon oath the 27 of October 1651, saith,
that uppon Wednesday last Capt. Parker’s company
being with others of the Lt. Generalls’ regiment drawen
up in the Church at Dundee, Abraham Randall of the
said company, being playing and abuseing his fellow
souldiers, this deponent told him if hee continued in it
hee would strike him. To which Randall said, ‘ Doe
an you dare, I will strike againe,’ whereupon this deponent
struck him a box in the eare, upon which Randall struck
him againe severall times, till hee was parted by Corporall
Bond, but afterwards this deponent being lighting a pipe
of tobacko Randall fell upon him againe.
The marke of x Sergt. Wood.
The examinacion of Corporall Bond upon oath, Oct.
30, 1651, saith, that on Wednesday the 22th instant,
Abraham Randall souldier in the said company, being
playing and justing the souldiers, Sergt. Wood told him
that if hee play’d the foole soe he would strike him, wher-
upon the said Randall said, that if the sergt. strooke him,
1 Sentenced, on the information of Margaret Paterson and Elizabeth
Mitchelson, for an attempted rape.
2 Confirmatory evidence of Sergeant John Clarke omitted,
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