Series 2 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society

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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
hee was rais’d as of Middleton’s regiment imediately
after the Scotts’ armies going for England. That they
quarter’d on Thursday last neere Aberdeene, where an
English quartermaster procur’d them quarters. That on
Friday night last they quarter’d att Drumlethee and
on Saturday night neere Killimure from whence they
went for Ellitt yesterday by breake of day. And intend¬
ing to breake fast there, there came into the towne about
6 of the English horse, and 4 or 5 of them into the roome,
and one of them caught hold of Wm. Baskett’s sworde,
who was going for Ireland but intended to goe with them
into the west and soe for Port Patrick. That the English
troopers when they came in ask’t whether they would
have quarter, to which Baskett said, ‘ Noe, Gentlemen,
you are mistaken. Wee are Scotchmen ’ (thinking they
were Mossers), that the rest with him desir’d them to
heare them, but they would nott, but brought them away
prisoners to Dundee. That they tooke 2 or 3 dollars
from the deponent att Ellitt, and the rest when they
came to this towne, telling them, that if they kept their
mony the Marshall Generali would take itt away when
they came into the prison doore.
Jo: Walkingshaw.
The examination of Roger Magilgan taken uppon
Oath, December 8, 1651, saith, that this deponent,
after his being disbanded with the rest of the Marq.
Huntley’s forces, being going with Lt. Stuart and some
other gentlemen of the Lord Blantire’s troope (wherin
hee rode) towards the west, from whence hee was raised
imediately after the Scotts armies going for England,
hee then serving the Laird of Arrankeble1 to whom hee
now intended to returne. That they lay on Thursday
night att the Kirke of Municabbock beyond Aberdene
and on Friday lay 16 miles on this side Aberdene, and
came on Saturday neere Killimure, from whence they
went the next morning to Ellitt, where they intended
to refresh themselves and horses. That being att break-
1 Probably Ardincaple.