Series 2 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society

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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
for England. That hee stay’d att one Archibald Grey’s
a change house in Forden, to sell his horse. That hee
was in a widdowes house in Forden parish when hee
was taken where hee had noe armes with him, there being
none in the house but women, but uppon his taking hee
told the dragoones that tooke him where his armes were,
being a case of pistolls and a sworde. That hee having
sold his horse intended to goe on foote to Sterling where
his friends are. Will. Lamb.
The examination of James Donaldson, taken uppon
oath the 20th day of December 1651, saith, that about
2 monthes since coming from his sister’s, Marian Donald¬
son, in Edinburgh to see his brother, George Donaldson,
a shoemaker in Elgan in Murray, that coming to Tulleroy,1
and being acquainted with Wm. Seaton a chamberlain
of Fife, who gave him horse and armes and maintayn’d
him 10 dayes att his owne charges, and afterwards
hee was entertayned in the Lord Blantire’s troope.
That imediately after the capitulation hee came away
without a passe intending to have gone for Edinburgh
after hee had gotten mony for his horse, which hee
brought away for feare that Capt. Peter Gurdon should
have taken itt in regard hee was first raised under him,
that hee lay but one night att Fordon where hee intended
to have sold his horse to one Commissary Faulkenor.
That being in an house in the towne taking his breakfast,
and his horse, being in Wm. Faulkenor’s house, there
came 2 dragoones, vizte. one Mr. Lenox Skeldon and
Wm. Todd, and Skeldon asking if hee would have quarter
which hee tooke, yet afterwards the said Skelton cutt
this deponent over the head. That Wm. Todd hath
taken his horse before. That hee never saw Steelhand
in his life. James Donaldsone.
Resolved. That there having noe charge bin brought
in against Wm. Lambe and James Donaldson that they
1 Tillery House (six miles north of Aberdeen).