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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
began to handle his pike, and the Lieutenant striking him
againe hee lett fall his pike, and closed with the Lieu¬
tenant, and struck him, and att last both fell uppon the
ground, and the said Pouncer tooke the cane which the
Lieutenant had in his hand.
The marke of O Robert Dale.1
Marshall Tite examined viva voce uppon oath saith,
that Lieutenant Knowles commanding Pouncer to stand
in his place, hee would nott because there was such a
file-leader putt in, wheruppon the Lieutenant strikes him;
going from him againe, Pouncer gives him some language,
uppon that hee bends his pike att him, whether itt was
to warde his blowes or strike att him hee did nott know.
Att last the Lieutenant strikes him againe, and then they
grapled together, and then hee was forced to carry him
into the guard by maine strength the souldiers shouting
as hee was carried into the guard.
Question. Whether Francis Pouncer shall bee tryed
uppon the 5th Article of Duties to superiours or noe ?
Resolved, to try him uppon the Article for Misdemeanour.
Question. Whether hee bee guilty of the breach of
the Article of Misdemeanour ? Resolved in the affirmative.
Sentenc’t. For refusing to obey the commands of his
officer. To bee brought from the prison with a rope about
his neck to bee led through the parade, and there to
have 30 stripes, after that to receive 30 more tide uppe
to the gallowes. After that to make his acknowledge¬
ment of his offence to his Lieutenant att the head of the
company, or else to bee continued in prison 7 dayes with
bread and water.
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL. Nov. 13, 1651.
Evan Owen souldier in Col. Cobbett’s owne company
call’d in.
x Similar deposition of John Parker omitted.