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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
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deponent fell to cutting of them, and then they call’d
for quarter.
The marke of x Thomas Pitt.
The information of Quintayne Moore, trooper in Col.
Grosvenor’s troope of horse, taken uppon oath, Dec. 8,
1651, saith, that this deponent entring the house att
another doore distant from that where Thomas Pitt was,
who was commanded with the deponent to goe as a forlorne
into Ellitt, and finding Thomas Pitt engag’d with half a
dozen Scotchmen who were making to their armes, the de¬
ponent offered to fire uppon one of them, vizte. Lt. Mathew
Stuart, but his pistoll nott going off hee advis’d them to
call for quarter, wheruppon they submitted and the
deponent and Tho: Pitt brought them forth to the Quarter¬
master who staid without with the partie. That the
deponent heard nott any of them speake of their passes
till they were brought to the Quartermaster and ready
to mount.
The marke of x Quintayne Moore.
Thomas Pitt further saith, that just after they were
disarm’d one of them said hee had a passe but nott before,
and asking him who itt was from whom hee had itt, hee
said from Col. Overton.
The marke of X Thomas Pitt.
The examination of Mathew Stuart, late Lieutenant
to the Lord Blantire,1 taken uppon oath. Dec. 8, 1651.
That this deponent, being disbanded with the rest of
Marquesse Huntley’s forces,2 came to Aberdeene on
Friday last, and quarter’d that night with one Quarter¬
master Ryburne, a quartermaster in the English army
in New Aberdeene, with whome hee chang’d an horse
for a mare and had five pounds in mony to boote. That
there quarter’d with him Quartermaster Stuart, quarter-
1 Alexander Stewart, fourth Lord Blantyre.
2 Lewis Gordon, third Marquis of Huntly, agreed to disband his forces on
21 st November 1651.
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