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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
Resolved in the affirmative.
Question. What punishment, hee being found guilty
of the breach of the Generali Article for Misdemeanour in
refusing to obey the commands of his officer and resisting
him giving him correction ?
Sentenc’t. To ride the horse an hower with 2 musketts
att each heele and a rope about his neck, tide to the
gallowes with his fault written uppon his brest.
John Johnson call’d in.
Thomas Scoble, ensign to Col. Cobbett’s owne companie,
examined uppon oath, 8 November 1651, saith, that uppon
Thursday last marching to the guard in Dundee with the
Colonell’s company, John Johnson, a souldier in the said
companie, march’t out of ranke and file, striking of a
Scotchman and abusing others. The deponent wish’t
him to bee more civill in his carriage or else hee would
correct him. Notwithstanding the said Johnson with a
stick hee had in his hand struck his fellow souldier, wher-
uppon the deponent gave him a blowe with his sworde in
his scabbard, uppon which the said Johnson used many
reproachfull speeches and said, that if hee had the deponent
half a mile out of towne hee would deale with him well
enough, or words to that purpose. That hee swore by
his Maker severall times uppon his march.
The marke of X Thomas Scoble.
The examination of Wm. Norman taken uppon oath,
Nov. 8, 1651, read, saith, that hee saw John Johnson
above named strike one Webb of the Colonell’s companie
with a stieke hee had in his hand, that uppon the Ensigne’s
correcting him hee swore by his Maker if hee had the
Ensigne half a mile out of towne hee would give him as
much.
The marke of X Wm. Norman.
Found guilty of the breach of the Generali Article for
Misdemeanours in threatning his officer and swearing.
Sentenc’t. To bee tide to the limbers of a peece of