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DUNDEE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS
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on Monday last about 7 in the morning coming to Margret
Rankin’s house and knocking att the doore, and being
lett in by a lasse, hee seem’d to bee very angry, and this
deponent standing by the fire side the said Robinson said,
that if that were in his quarters hee would garre her smart.
That if they had nott their pay by Christmas they would
make itt a blewer day then when the towne was first
taken, that hee further said, that they had consultations
of itt uppon the guard to deale with them which were
to pay their siller. That the child crying hee said, that
hee would base or spitt itt, [itt] would make good broath.
The marke of x Katherine Piggott.
Katherine Mearnes examined uppon oath, saith, That
on Munday last about 7 in the morning Thomas Robin¬
son of Lt. Col. Sawrey’s companie came to Margrett
Rankin’s house where Rich. Ives quarters to warme
himself. And being lett in by Katherine Piggott after
his knocking hard, and shee reproving him for itt because
hee disturb’d the woman who was sicke in the house,
hee call’d her ‘ Old bitch ’ and ‘ Scotch bitch,’ and said,
that if they had nott monie they would make itt a blewer
day on the Wednesday following in Dundee then that
of the storming of the towne. That the deponent reply¬
ing ‘ God blesse the Lieutenant Generali, and your officers,’
for if itt were nott for them the souldiers would doe them
mickle wrange. Wheruppon the said Robinson said,
that the Lieutenant Generali had like to have bin kill’d
the last yeare att Edinburgh, and itt would bee little
better if they gott nott their monie yet. That seing a
little childe there hee said, hee would boyle itt, itt would
make good broath, and afterwards, that hee would roast
itt, that hee would come and drinke the sacke and plunder
the house, and kill the woman (meaning Katherine Piggott)
for reproving him.
The marke of X Katherine Mearnes.
The examination of Richard Ives taken uppon oath,
saith, that hee came off with Thomas Robinson from the
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on Monday last about 7 in the morning coming to Margret
Rankin’s house and knocking att the doore, and being
lett in by a lasse, hee seem’d to bee very angry, and this
deponent standing by the fire side the said Robinson said,
that if that were in his quarters hee would garre her smart.
That if they had nott their pay by Christmas they would
make itt a blewer day then when the towne was first
taken, that hee further said, that they had consultations
of itt uppon the guard to deale with them which were
to pay their siller. That the child crying hee said, that
hee would base or spitt itt, [itt] would make good broath.
The marke of x Katherine Piggott.
Katherine Mearnes examined uppon oath, saith, That
on Munday last about 7 in the morning Thomas Robin¬
son of Lt. Col. Sawrey’s companie came to Margrett
Rankin’s house where Rich. Ives quarters to warme
himself. And being lett in by Katherine Piggott after
his knocking hard, and shee reproving him for itt because
hee disturb’d the woman who was sicke in the house,
hee call’d her ‘ Old bitch ’ and ‘ Scotch bitch,’ and said,
that if they had nott monie they would make itt a blewer
day on the Wednesday following in Dundee then that
of the storming of the towne. That the deponent reply¬
ing ‘ God blesse the Lieutenant Generali, and your officers,’
for if itt were nott for them the souldiers would doe them
mickle wrange. Wheruppon the said Robinson said,
that the Lieutenant Generali had like to have bin kill’d
the last yeare att Edinburgh, and itt would bee little
better if they gott nott their monie yet. That seing a
little childe there hee said, hee would boyle itt, itt would
make good broath, and afterwards, that hee would roast
itt, that hee would come and drinke the sacke and plunder
the house, and kill the woman (meaning Katherine Piggott)
for reproving him.
The marke of X Katherine Mearnes.
The examination of Richard Ives taken uppon oath,
saith, that hee came off with Thomas Robinson from the
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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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