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50 DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
master to the Lord Blantire’s troope to which this deponent
was lieutenant, Mr. John Walkinshaw who alsoe rode
in the same troope, Roger Mackgill, Wm. Baskett, and
Archibald Patterson all of the same troope. That on
Saturday night they quarter’d att one Mr. Levingston’s
house att Memuss neere Killimure, and from thence
went out about breake of day to Ellitt where they came
before morning sermon, intending to have brake their
fast there and soe to have gone to the Ferry of Kinclaven,
and soe homewards. That while they were sitting att
breakefast there came in one Moore a Scotchman and
another trooper, and bid them render and then demanded
their monie, that shewing their passes one of the troopers
tooke away his passe, and said hee would shew his passe
to him that commanded the partie, that this deponent
being told by the landlord where hee was that Steelhand
was there the Friday before, thought when hee heard
the Scotchman’s voice itt was hee, for that hee was told
that Steelhand had threatned to meete some of those
that were disbanded and take away their horses, that
hee was going with the rest to the sheriffdome of Renfrew
beyond Glasgowe where they all live except Roger Maghill
and Wm. Baskett, that this deponent lived in Argowan
when hee was leavied with the Lord Blantire and the
rest. That hee never saw Steelhand in his life. That
there was none of the Gentlemen with him had any armes
besides the deponent, Quartermaster Stuart and Mr.
Baskett, only his boy carried a sworde before him.
Mathew Stewart.
The examination of Quartermaster Mathew Stuart
taken uppon oath the 8th day of December 1651, saith,
that this deponent with Lt. Stuart and 4 more of the
Lord Blantire’s troope coming from Strathbogy where
they were disbanded with resolutions to goe to their
homes in the west, came on Thursday night to the new
kirke of Minicabock 1 about 7 miles from Aberdene on
the north side, where there being a troope of English
1 ? Menie House.
master to the Lord Blantire’s troope to which this deponent
was lieutenant, Mr. John Walkinshaw who alsoe rode
in the same troope, Roger Mackgill, Wm. Baskett, and
Archibald Patterson all of the same troope. That on
Saturday night they quarter’d att one Mr. Levingston’s
house att Memuss neere Killimure, and from thence
went out about breake of day to Ellitt where they came
before morning sermon, intending to have brake their
fast there and soe to have gone to the Ferry of Kinclaven,
and soe homewards. That while they were sitting att
breakefast there came in one Moore a Scotchman and
another trooper, and bid them render and then demanded
their monie, that shewing their passes one of the troopers
tooke away his passe, and said hee would shew his passe
to him that commanded the partie, that this deponent
being told by the landlord where hee was that Steelhand
was there the Friday before, thought when hee heard
the Scotchman’s voice itt was hee, for that hee was told
that Steelhand had threatned to meete some of those
that were disbanded and take away their horses, that
hee was going with the rest to the sheriffdome of Renfrew
beyond Glasgowe where they all live except Roger Maghill
and Wm. Baskett, that this deponent lived in Argowan
when hee was leavied with the Lord Blantire and the
rest. That hee never saw Steelhand in his life. That
there was none of the Gentlemen with him had any armes
besides the deponent, Quartermaster Stuart and Mr.
Baskett, only his boy carried a sworde before him.
Mathew Stewart.
The examination of Quartermaster Mathew Stuart
taken uppon oath the 8th day of December 1651, saith,
that this deponent with Lt. Stuart and 4 more of the
Lord Blantire’s troope coming from Strathbogy where
they were disbanded with resolutions to goe to their
homes in the west, came on Thursday night to the new
kirke of Minicabock 1 about 7 miles from Aberdene on
the north side, where there being a troope of English
1 ? Menie House.
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| Description | Third volume. Contents: Dundee court-martial records, 1651 / edited by Godfrey Davies -- The bishop of Galloway's correspondence, 1679-1685 / edited by William Douglas -- The diary of Sir James Hope, 1646-1654 / edited by Sir James Balfour Paul -- Instructions for the trial of Patrick Graham, 1476 / edited by Robert Kerr Hannay -- The Scottish contributions to the distressed church of France, 1622 / edited by D. Hay Fleming -- The Forbes baron court book, 1659-1678 / edited by J. Maitland Thomson. |
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