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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
demeanour in being present att the mutiny and disorder
of the souldiers in the shambles ?
Resolved in the affirmative.
Found guilty, For being present att and pertaking in
the late disorder of the souldiers in taking away meate
from the butchers in the shambles.
Sentenc’t. To ride uppon the horse an hower with a
muskett att each heele and to bee whip’t from the Maine
guard round the shambles, and to receive 30 stripes.
DUNDEE. COURT MARTIALL. December 27, 1651.
Tho: Robinson call’d in. The charge taken by Lieu¬
tenant Bagge read before him and the witnesses.
Munday, Dec. 22, 1651.
Thomas Robinson that doth quarter att younge Sandy
Sommers his house in the Overgate, of Lt. Col. Sawrey’s
company, did say as followeth,
That if they had nott monie before Christmas they
would plunder the towne of Dundee and make itt a blewer
day then that was when the towne was stormed, and
that they had consultation therof the last night on the
guard. This hee spake att Margret Rankin’s house the
same night, as alsoe if that were the quarters hee would
putt the little childe in the house on the spitt and roast
itt. And concerning the officers hee said, Range all
the commanders for all that hee cared for them, and
that the Lieutenant Generali had like to have bin kill’d
att Edinburgh, and hee should speede but little better
yet; and being reproved for the same hee said, That if
the officers should know of itt hee would make away for
England.
(Margaret Rankin.
Katherine Piggott.
Katherine Mernes.
and Richard Ives of Col. Sawrey’s company that doth
quarter att the said Margrett Rankin’s house.
The charge denied by Tho. Robinson.
Katherine Piggott examined uppon oath, saith, That