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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
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fast with the rest of his companie, there came in three
troopers belonging to the English, and bad them, take
quarter, and the gentleman who was shott through the
thigh thinking them Mossers (seing a Scotchman with
them), said, ‘ you are mistaken wee are noe Englishmen.’
That the deponent had a passe from Col. Overton which
hee gave the last night to the quartermaster who com¬
manded the partie that tooke them. That they having
taken away seaven shillings from this deponent hee was
mounted and brought to this towne.
The marke of X Roger Magilgan.
The examination of Archibald Paterson taken uppon
oath the 8th day of December 1651, saith, that hee riding
in the Lord Blantire’s troope, and being disbanded with
the rest, was going with Lt. Stewart and others of the
troope westward towards his home in Lenoxshire att
Banesailide1 from whence hee was raised, when the
Scotch army marched for England. That being resolved
to goe homewards they quarter’d on Thursday night att
the New Kirke of S. Kabon 5 miles beyond Aberdeene
where Lt. Stuart chang’d an horse with a quartermaster
of the English. That they came on Friday night to
Drumlethe. That they mett divers of our foote souldiers
that day but noe horse. That on Saturday night they
came to a gentleman’s house call’d Mr. Levingston neere
Killimure. That yesterday morning they went to Ellitt
intending to goe over the ferry neere Skoone. That being
att Ellitt refreshing themselves and horses, there came
into the house a trooper in greene clothes and black skarfe
about his neck and gray cloake, with one Moore a Scotch¬
man. That one of the company knowing Mr. Moore
said, ‘ Oh, Mr. Moore, you are mistaken. Wee are Scotch¬
men, wee are nott Englishmen,’ thinking him to bee a
Mosser, having knowne him in the Lord Brechin’s2 regi-
1 It seems impossible to identify the name of the place hidden by this grotesque
spelling.
2 George, son and successor of Patrick Maule, Earl of Panmure, Lord
Brechin and Navar.—Scots Peerage, vol. vii. pp. 19-22.
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fast with the rest of his companie, there came in three
troopers belonging to the English, and bad them, take
quarter, and the gentleman who was shott through the
thigh thinking them Mossers (seing a Scotchman with
them), said, ‘ you are mistaken wee are noe Englishmen.’
That the deponent had a passe from Col. Overton which
hee gave the last night to the quartermaster who com¬
manded the partie that tooke them. That they having
taken away seaven shillings from this deponent hee was
mounted and brought to this towne.
The marke of X Roger Magilgan.
The examination of Archibald Paterson taken uppon
oath the 8th day of December 1651, saith, that hee riding
in the Lord Blantire’s troope, and being disbanded with
the rest, was going with Lt. Stewart and others of the
troope westward towards his home in Lenoxshire att
Banesailide1 from whence hee was raised, when the
Scotch army marched for England. That being resolved
to goe homewards they quarter’d on Thursday night att
the New Kirke of S. Kabon 5 miles beyond Aberdeene
where Lt. Stuart chang’d an horse with a quartermaster
of the English. That they came on Friday night to
Drumlethe. That they mett divers of our foote souldiers
that day but noe horse. That on Saturday night they
came to a gentleman’s house call’d Mr. Levingston neere
Killimure. That yesterday morning they went to Ellitt
intending to goe over the ferry neere Skoone. That being
att Ellitt refreshing themselves and horses, there came
into the house a trooper in greene clothes and black skarfe
about his neck and gray cloake, with one Moore a Scotch¬
man. That one of the company knowing Mr. Moore
said, ‘ Oh, Mr. Moore, you are mistaken. Wee are Scotch¬
men, wee are nott Englishmen,’ thinking him to bee a
Mosser, having knowne him in the Lord Brechin’s2 regi-
1 It seems impossible to identify the name of the place hidden by this grotesque
spelling.
2 George, son and successor of Patrick Maule, Earl of Panmure, Lord
Brechin and Navar.—Scots Peerage, vol. vii. pp. 19-22.
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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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