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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
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ordnance, and to receive 30 stripes from the Westgate
to the Eastgate, and afterwards to stand half an hower
under the gallowes with a gagge in his mouth.
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL. In Dundee,
Nov. 28, 1651.
Wm. Westoe sworne and examined saith, that his
wife was very sick and hee was faine to entertaine Jane
Robinson to helpe her in this her sicknesse uppon their
march to Dunbarre, and some two houres before day in
the morning the said Jane Robinson went away with all
his wive’s wearing clothes, some of which shee hath on
her backe att this present, vizte. one black gowne, one
red petticoate, one paire of boddice and neckcloath and
apron.
The marke of O Wm. Westoe.1
Resolved that Jane Robinson for her theft shall bee
whip’t from the Murray gate to the water side, and thence
to bee conveyed from constable to constable, till shee
come to England, her number of stripes nott to exceede
30. And if the said Jane Robinson bee found in the
quarters of the army, that then shee shall bee imprisoned
againe.
Resolved uppon the question, that the mony that
was found about the said Jane Robinson shall bee given
to Wm. Westoe’s wife towards the losse of her clothes.
Resolved, that William Westoe shall take away the
gowne and red petticoate from Jane Robinson, provided,
that the said Westoe doe give her some other to cover her
nakednesse, and what else is his.
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL. Dec. 2, 1651.
The information of James Haliburton and John Miller
in relacion to the robberies of Robert Bell, read.
1 Confirmed by Ralph Ratcliff, Allen Stillen, and Robert Baker.

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