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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
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through the parade and receive 20 stripes there, and
after that to have 20 stripes tide uppe to the gallows.
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL. Nov. 3, 1651.
Francis Pouncer call’d in.
The information of Lt. Knowles read, vizte., Uppon
Wednesday the 29th of October, Lieut. Col. Symonds’
company being drawne uppe att the parade, Francis
Pouncer souldier in the same companie giving reproachfull
words to his fellow souldiers, calling them rogues and
the like, his Lieutenant commanded him to hold his peace,
hee said hee would nott, uppon that his Lieutenant gave
him 2 or 3 strokes with his caine, and commanded him
to hold his peace, and going from him hee began as afore.
His Lieutenant going to him againe strucke att him with
his kane, and hee letting his pike fall towards him, the
Lieutenant taking hold of his pike with the one hand
struck att him with the other with his cane. Then the
said Pouncer closed with him and gott hold of his cane,
and as Robt. Deale, John Parker and the Marshall Mr.
Tite saith, that they saw him strike att the said Lieutenant,
before the said Pouncer went to the ground, then the
Lieutenant tooke him by the shoulder, hearing a noyse
amongst the souldiers, and thrust him into the guard
where hee gave reproachfull words and said, that hee
might speake in prison what hee list.
Will. Knowles.
The examination of Sergt. Robert Dale, sergeant to
Lt. Col. Symonds’ company in Col. Ashfeild’s regiment
saith, that uppon Wednesday the 29th of October, the
Lieut. Colonell’s company being drawne uppe att the
parade, Francis Pouncer of the said company refused to
lett a souldier lately entred to march in the file before him,
wheruppon Lieutenant Knowles said, hee should march
before him. Pouncer said, hee should nott. The Lieu¬
tenant said, if hee would nott hee would make him bee
quiett. Then the Lieutenant striking him the said Pouncer