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[^SPALDING, JOHN.
THE HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES AND MEMORABLE TRANSACTIONS IN
SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND, FROM MDCXXIV TO MDCXLV. VOL. II.
ED. J. SKEYNE. BANNATYNE CLUB. EDINBURGH 1829.

SAMPLE 1: PP. 54.10-59.33
SAMPLE 2: PP. 208.4-225.28
SAMPLE 3: PP. 313.11-323.6^]

<S SAMPLE 1>
<P 54>
   About the begining of this moneth of June, Doctor Guild,     #
principall, 
violentlie brakis doun the insicht and plenishing within the    #
bischopis houssis
(quhilk wes left ondistroyit befoir), sic as bedis, burdis,     #
&c., and causit transport
them doun to plenish the college chalmeris and uther wark;      #
gestis and gryte 
tymber he cuttit doun. He tirrit the too-fallis of the haill    #
office houssis, sic as 
baikhous, brewhous, byris, stables, yea and of sum too-fall     #
chalmeris also, and 
careit  rooff and sklait away, quhairwith he rooffit ane        #
sang-scooll and sklaitit
the samen within Bereold Innes clos, quhair never sang-scooll   #
wes befoir. Thus,
as he dang doun the wallis of the Snaw kirk to big wp the       #
College dykes, as 
ye have befoir, so now he is demolishing the bischopis          #
houssis, in forme and to 
the effect foirsaid. Pitifull and lamentable, to behold kirkis  #
and statelie buildinges
first to be cassin doun be ruffians and rascallis; and nixt,    #
be churchemen, 
wnder cullour of religioun, to be broken doun. 
   It is heir to be markit, that since Januar, the begining     #
of this yeir 1642, 
gryte skarsitie of white fishes on our haill costis, to the     #
hurt and hunger of the 
poor, and raising of the prices of meill and malt, and          #
beggering of the fishermen.
And it wes reportit, that when the fisheris had laid thair      #
lynes and 
takin fishes aboundantlie, thair cam ane beist, callit the      #
Sea-dog, to the lynes, 
and eit and distroyit the haill bodies, and left nothing on the #
lynes bot the 
heidis: A judgement surelie from God Almightie, for the lyke    #
scarsitie of 
fishes to continew so long hes scarslie beine sein heir in      #
Scotland; quhilk bred 
gryte derth of meill and malt, at aucht, nyne or ten poundis    #
the boll, and all 
uther meites wes also maid veray deir. Besides this, a cold     #
drowth throw all 
June, quhairby girs and cornes wes brynt wp and reid in the     #
blaid, quhilk 
maid also gryte scarsitie of all milknes, butter and cheis:     #
bot the Lord amendit 
this cold drouth, and, about or upone the sevent, aucht and     #
nynt of June, he 
sent thir thrie dayis aboundans of rayne, to the gryte comfort  #
of man and 
beist. Bot, whill this tyme, June, wes brynt wp with drouth,    #
as said is, yet 
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(albeit the harvest wes lait) God sent cornes aboundantlie      #
throw the ground 
for intertynneing of man and beist; bot being transported to    #
Ireland, becam 
fearce and deir. Sie heirefter. 
   Word cam that the 12 English bischopis whiche wes wairdit,   #
as ye have 
befoir, war, about this moneth of June, put to libertie; bot    #
the Archbischop
of Canterbury stood still wairdit. 
   The Irishis daylie growing stronger and stronger, using      #
fyre, suord and all 
maner of crueltie aganes man, wife and barne of English,        #
Scottish and Irish 
Covenanteris within thair kyngdome, without pitie or            #
compassioun. Mony 
fled this crueltie that could win away over to Scotland, both   #
man, wyf and 
child; bred by the incuming of oure Covenant. 
   Upone Wednisday 22 June, the laird of Cors rode to           #
Edinbrughe to the 
Committe of the Generall Assemblie, holden thair be             #
persuasioun or desire of 
oure last Provinciall Assembly, not of his awin good will. He   #
wes maid welcum
there be the bretheren, and had privie conferens with thame.    #
The persone
of Balhelvie wes sent commissioner fra oure Provinciall         #
Assemblie to Edinbrughe
to the same Committe; for thay wissit ernestlie Cors (as ane    #
excellent 
lernit man) to keip his awin place, if thay could in any cace   #
procure the samen 
at thair handis be ther said commissioner, who wes direct for   #
that effect, as 
said is: bot let the bretheren in Edinbrughe do thair best,     #
thay could not, be 
threatning nor persuasioun, allure this lernit, godlie man to   #
subscrive and 
sweir ther Covenant, quhilk (as he declairit) wes contrair to   #
his conscience,
quhilk he wold not ballans with no worldlie plesour nor         #
preferment. Thus, 
efter divers meitingis and conferences with Mr. Alexander       #
Henrisoun, Mr. 
Androw Ramsay, Mr. Henrie Rollok, ministeris at Edinbrughe and  #
utheris 
apointit to sit upone the Committe for the Generall Assemblie,  #
in end he with 
Mr. David Lindsay returnit hame agane, upone the 12 of July,    #
but any forder;
quhair, Doctor Forbes, professour forsaid, a lernit divyne      #
theolog, denying
to sweir and subscrive oure Covenant, wes thocht a stumbling    #
blok to this 
our good caus and new reformation. Sie more of him heirefter. 
   Upone the 24 of June, the laird of Haddoche compeirit        #
befoir the Justice
in Edinbrughe to wnderly the law for the alledged slauchter of  #
Mr. James
Stalker, as ye have befoir. Efter sum ressoning, he wes         #
ordanit to set cautioun
to compeir agane upone the nixt citatioun, or referrit to the   #
nixt parliament,
and so he returnit hame agane. Sie heirefter. 
   About this  tyme, and troubles in Ireland, Mr. John Leslie,  #
bischop of Raphoe,
cam fra that countrie to Edinbrughe, and from that to England.  #
He
<P 56>
said, he cam, not cled lyk a bischop, bot with suord and        #
quhinger like ane soldiour.
Aluaies he went post to the king. 
   Mr. Androw Cant, being minister at Abirdene, as ye have      #
befoir, began to 
bring in novationis. He wold not baptis ony barne, yea albeit   #
at the poynt of 
death, bot efter preiching on Sonday or ony uther preiching     #
day in the week. 
He cryit out aganes conveining at lyk-walkis, reiding of        #
scriptures or singing 
of psalmes; bot the deid corpeis to ly wnder ane burde all      #
nicht without sic
company; bot nather of this could he get done. He brocht in     #
ane lecture lesson
to be usit Mononday at nicht, Wednisday, Fryday and Setterday,  #
in place 
of efternoone prayers. No communioun given be Cant for tuo      #
yeires space to 
the toune of Abirdene, quhill first thay wer weill catechisit,  #
becaus he alledgit 
thay war ignorant. Sie more heirefter of his proceidingis. 
   Mr. Henrie Rollok, ane of the ministeris of Edinbrughe,      #
depairtit this lyf,
confessing fra his hairt that his Majestie wes cruellie         #
subdewit, and borne doun 
by his owne subjectis, as wes reportit; for the quhilk he gat   #
small convoy to 
his grave by the puritans of Edinbrughe. Mr. Alexander          #
Henrisoun, minister 
at Leucharis in Fyff, wes translated thairfra to be ane         #
minister at Edinbrughe
in his room. About midsommer, England sent in to the Committe   #
at 
Edinbrughe ane hundreth and ten thousand pund sterling for      #
thair brotherly 
assistans, conform to the act of parliament, 7 August 1641. 
   About the 24 of June, directit the Lord Maior of London to   #
caus mak 
Proclamatioun at all the crossis within the toun, chargeing     #
all trew and loyall 
subjectis to cum to the king, and byganes sould be forgivin;    #
except sum personnes,
sic as Sir John Hotham, governour of Hull, and utheris his      #
capitall enemeis, 
quhilk his Majestie wes not to pardon. The parliamentaris wes   #
heichlie 
offendit at the Maior of Londoun for suffering this             #
Proclamation to be maid, 
and for the quhilk he wes presentlie deposit and ane uther      #
Maior electit and 
put in his place; bot first he wes haistellie takin, accusit    #
and wardit, and thairefter
deposit for obeying of the kingis command: yet this             #
Proclamatioun drew 
the hairtis of many people to the king, as ye may heirefter     #
sie. 
   Now, his Majestie beginnis to walkin, and is fast drawing    #
to ane heid. His 
faithfull followeris and good subjectis ar by the               #
parliamentaris declairit incendiareis
and malignant pairty. He causit put in ane garisoun in          #
Newcastell;
and divers lordis of parliament resortit also to the king.      #
Quhairupone the 
parliamentaris resolvit to establish ane Committe of thair      #
best number to sit 
constantlie at Westminster for the parliament, with like        #
authoritie and pouer, 
as if the haill estaites of parliament war sitting; for thay    #
durst not rys totallie
<P 57>
wp  nor desert thair parliament, lest the king could not be     #
movit to indict
another when thay wold, as he had more nor ressone to refuse.   #
In the 
meintyme, thay mak preparatioun for armes to defend ther own    #
pretendit 
actis and ordinances for ther militia. 
   Tuysday 27th June, ane visitatioun of our Oldtoun kirk be    #
the bretheren.
The sessioun wes changed fra efter the foirnones sermon to      #
efter the efternones
sermon on ilk Sonday. The landuard elderis thocht this burden   #
havie,
to byd ilk efternone, by thair dynner in the Old toun, quhilk   #
wes byding thame 
at home in ther owne houssis. It wes ordainit by this           #
presbiteriall visitatioun,
that ilk maister and mistres of famelie in town and cuntrie     #
within this parochin
suld cum with ther barnes and servandis to the ministeris       #
catechising. 
Noysum to the countrie people to cum all, clois wp ther         #
durris, and leave none
at home to keip thair houssis, thair cornes, cattell and uther  #
goodis. Thay
ordanit the bak of the hie altar, in bischop Gawin Dumbarris    #
Iyll, curiouslie
wrocht in wanescot, matchles within all the kirkis of           #
Scotland, to be dung 
doun as smelling of idolatrie. Pitifull to behold! In the mene  #
tyme, our minister
Mr. Williame Strathauchin teachis powerfullie and planelie the  #
Word, to 
the gryte comfort of his auditores. He takes strait count of    #
those who cumis
not to the communioun, nor keipis not the kirk, and callis out  #
the absentis out 
of pulpit; quhilk drew in sic a fair auditorie, that the        #
seatis of the kirk wes not
abill to hald thame; for remeid quhairof, he causit big wp ane  #
lost athuart
the body of the kirk, and enterit the wrichtis thairto in       #
November. Lyk as 
with gryte panes and diligens he causit skleat the haill body   #
of the kirk in the 
symmer season with new lath, new skleat, and new materiallis,   #
quhilk wes not
so weill done sen the tyme it wes first sklaittit efter the     #
leid wes tirrit thairfra.
The too-fallis wes not theikit, becaus thay micht not be        #
overtane this yeir. 
This Mr. Williame Strathauchin, one of the best pastores that   #
hes bene sene
at this church thir many yeiris bygone; bot the treuth is, the  #
bak of the altar
wes violentlie pullit doun be direction of Mr. William          #
Strathauchin, onlie
advysit thairto be doctor Goold, principall and moderatour for  #
the tyme, and 
had not consent of the bretheren thairto, as is said befoir;    #
and by this glorious
tymber wark of the said altar this new loft wes beautifeid and  #
adornit with
gilt pieces and ornamentis. 
   Now the marques of Hammiltoun, foirseing thir feires and     #
apparant troubles, 
quhairof he hes not bene saikles fra the begining, as wold      #
appeir, for he had 
still the kingis ear, was continewallie upone his counsall,     #
quhilk he reveillit 
haistellie till our covenanteris be his letteris, quhairby      #
thay war provydit and 
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still upone thair guard to ansuer to whatsumever commissioun    #
wes sent be his 
Majestie heir, to protest aganes all maner of proclamationis    #
usit heir, and led
or misled his gratious Prince (who had maid wp his forlorne     #
estait) as he 
pleisit. First, Ane generall assemblie wes indictit. 2. Ane     #
parliament wes indictit,
quhairintill the king, in all his designes, both of kirk and    #
policie, wes 
trampet doun; his freindes and faithfull servitoris declairit   #
rebellis, incendiaris
and malignantis, yea baneshit fra thair honouris, countreis     #
and estaites, 
and thair enemeis plantit and placed into thair roumes;         #
ministeris baneshit, 
thair places fillit wp according to the will of the             #
covenanteris, utheris deposit 
with indignitie and disgrace; and, in a word, none bot the      #
king, the bischoppis, 
nobles, ministeris and utheris who follouit his Majestie wes    #
borne doun pitifullie
with shame and disgrace; as may appeir in his actis of          #
parliament, 
quhair his enemeis are exaltit and his trew servitouris cassin  #
doun. 
   To thir haill doinges this marques of Hammiltoun wes still   #
privie, the 
raising of armes, the cuming to Berwick, the treattie of        #
peace, coroboratioun
of parliament, the kingis returning to London, he is still      #
with him, he attendis
his Majestie whill he saw no appeirans of peace, then he        #
leives him in 
his troubles with the parliament, fenzyeing him self to be      #
seik and he behovit
to cum to Scotland for his helth, quhilk the king beheld, and   #
wynkit at his 
proceidinges, quhairof he had gottin sum knawledge suppose too  #
lait: bot the 
erll of Lanerk, secretar in Scotland, and secretar to the       #
Scottis counsall in Ingland, 
he left behind with the king, doubtles for a intelligencer,     #
who doubtles 
wes still cairful to acquent his owne brother german (and       #
onlie upraiser), the 
marques of Hammiltoun, with all occurrentis betuixt the king    #
and the parliament.
Many wondred at the marques of Hammiltoun's behaviour fra the 
begining of this covenant, as ye may sie befoir, or what        #
could move him to 
deal so politiquelie with so good a maister; for it wes weill   #
knowne he honored
this marques, he inritched his cofferis, and denyit him         #
nothing worldlie 
quhairin he could lessumly availl him, in counsall, in privie   #
chalmer, in bed
chalmer, still cheifest in his Majesteis societie; and yet he   #
wold stur against 
him, and so behave him self wnder trust, as bred gryt greif to  #
the king and 
mutche trouble both in Scotland and England, as efter do        #
appeir, quhilk happellie
micht have bene preventit, if he had reveillit thir plotis      #
tymouslie to his 
Majestie, and socht his honour, peice and prosperitie, as becam #
ane trew and 
loyall subject, both for his hienes and weill of his haill      #
dominionis of England,
Scotland and Ireland, who felt and sufferit ilk ane ther owne   #
trubles and severall
vexationis, as sall appeir more planelie heirefter. 
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   Aluayes this marques of Hammiltoun leavis the king in the    #
begining of 
thir troubles; bot his brother, as I have said, baid still at   #
court with the king, 
quhairby he had daylie intelligens what wes doing in court or   #
abroad. Weill, 
he cums to Hammiltoun, whair he had his meitinges with the      #
marques of Argyll, 
the heiche chancelar and uther pryme lordis of the covenant at  #
his plesour: 
Syne, at the doun sitting of the sessioun, he cam and duelt in  #
the kingis 
owne pallace of Holirudehous, and attendit the counsall dayes   #
ordinarlie. He 
had a stout guard about him of his owne freindis and            #
domestickis, and held a 
gryte hous, as wes reportit. He had his meitinges daylie and    #
nichtlie with the 
foirsaidis persones. Sie more heirefter. This marques of        #
Hammiltoun left 
the king, and cam in till Scotland about the beginning of       #
July, quhair he 
stayit whill [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] 1643, as ye may sie          #
heirefter. 
  The erll of Mortoun left his Majestie also, and cam to        #
Scotland to the kingis 
awin pallace of Dalkeith, quhair he remanit and duelt all this  #
while. 
   Generall Leslie (now erll of Levin) bringis over his ladie   #
to the castell of 
Edinbrughe, theirin to dwell togidder about this tyme,          #
furnishit the same for 
his awin provision; bot had no more men bot sic as wes within,  #
by his owne 
domestikis. 
   It wes reportit also, that thare wes about 24 noble men,     #
callit Banderis,
that convenit in the Cannoget of Edinbrughe, at the foirsaid    #
counsall day, all 
malcontentis, and wes to petition the counsall, desiring thame  #
to keip ther 
Covenant, and Othe of Allegeance to his Majestie, and to        #
defend his royall prerogative
now incrochit upone be his English subjectis. Of thir or the    #
lyk 
termes this petitioune wes framed be nobles and utheris of the  #
wast countrie, 
and givin in wnder the subscriptioun of the erll of             #
Montgomrie. The  counsall 
gave no ansuer, bot slichtit the samen, commanding thame to     #
remove, 
whiche thay did and went to Glasgow. In the mein tyme, the      #
ministrie of 
Fyff, with nobles, barronis, and burgessis, gave also in to     #
the counsall ane uther
petitioun. Thay cam in with gryte numberis, as the Banderis     #
also did. The 
toun of Edinbrughe gardit the counsall and Edinbrughe and       #
Leith both with 
about 1000 men in armes. 
   It wes reportit, that the Irishis is veray strong, who       #
cannellie espyit thair
tyme, to cast as ther yok of obediens, throw the incuming of    #
oure covenant.

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<P 208>
   Upone Fridday 5 Aprile, the marques sent over to the  laird  #
of Clunyis
hous, and  took 50 pikis out thairof to this service.           #
Lykuaies the laird Drum
younger sent over for doctor Gooldis sadill hors, quhilk he     #
durst not refuse. 
   This samen Frydday, Nathaniell Gordoun went to the Road of   #
Abirdene 
with about 20 muskiteires, and took ane bark ladnit with        #
hering pertening to 
the kingdome of Denmark. This bark wes takin be ane English     #
Pirat, with 
ane uther bark also of that same natioun, be virtue of ane      #
Letter of Mark
givin out to sum of thair schipis to tak sic schipis as         #
pertenit to Denmark 
and to Ireland also. Now this bark ladnit with hering being     #
thus taken, the 
Englishman (hes the one following hir) causis tak of [^BLANK IN #
THE TEXT^] men of hir, and 
puttis in thair schip als mony of thair men (as siefairing      #
fashioun is), that 
scho suld not go from hir. This bark I say cumis throw change   #
of wynd to 
the Road of Aberdene, whome the said Nathaniell or major        #
Nathaniell Gordoun 
took and brings into the harberie of Abirdene; and, efter       #
tryell, takis 
the Englishmen and wairdis them in the tolbuith of Abirdene.    #
The Pirat 
who had takin this pryze, missing hir, cam to the Road of       #
Abirdene, and set a 
schoir the pilot and skipper to try if scho cam to the          #
harberie; bot upone the 
sext of Aprile thay war takin and wairdit with the rest. Bot    #
rather moir 
treulie it wes not the men of the Pirat, bot tua men of ane     #
uther warriour
English Parliamentary schip whiche cam on land, as said is,     #
haveing nothing 
ado with the hering pryze. This schip seing thair pilot and     #
skipper not to cum 
aboord, thay apprehend that thay war takin. Whairupone thay     #
hoys saill 
and gois about the Nuke; bot, upone Mononday the 8 of Aprile,   #
scho returnis 
to the road, took thrie of oure fisher boatis with 24 men,      #
cheassit uther tua in 
at Done mouth with hir Cokboit, and ane uther north. Scho       #
landit also at 
Balhelvie and took tua bollis of malt from the countrie men     #
careing in to the 
toun, and had the samen aboord to thair schip. The marques wes  #
veray angrie,
becaus he had commandit the fisheris that thay sould not go to  #
the sea, lest
thay sould be takin, and he sould sustein thame lying on land;  #
bot foolishlie 
thay went on, quhairby the marques expectatioun wes             #
disapointit, thinking 
for setting thir tua men to libertie to have gottin sum cart    #
peices out of thair 
schip; aluaies scho lyis still at anchor and schot all day      #
divers gryte schottis 
on land, bot did no skaith. The fisher wyvis, wanting thair     #
men, ran crying 
upon the marques, who in end sent James Broun, skipper in       #
Abirdene, aboord 
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with ane letter fra thair skipper and pilot, desyreing thame    #
to set a schoir the 
fishermen and the malt, and to keip this skipper Broun whill    #
thay cam to thair 
schip; whiche wes done, and ilk one got thair awin. So scho wp  #
saillis, and 
to the sea gois scho but moir trubbill. 
   In the mein tyme, the English Pirat, who had takin the       #
hering bark, heiring
that scho wes takin and had in to Abirdene, scho unhappellie    #
lichtis upone
skipper Walker his bark, one of oure toun's sailleris, anent    #
Peterheid, upone 
the 11 of Aprile, cuming from Caithnes to Abirdene, ladnit      #
with salt beif, talloun,
skin, hyde, and such commoditeis pertening to Caithnes          #
merchandis. Thay 
tirrit skipper Walker out of his clothis and cled him in        #
raggis, and set him on 
schoir, who in pitifull maner cam to Abirdene and  told the     #
marques, schowing
he wold not get his schip nor goodis agane whill the pryze of   #
hering war 
restorit as his laufull pryze takin from the Danes be virtue    #
of ane Letter of 
Mark, as said is; quhairat the marques wes heichlie offendit    #
for the honest 
manis lois, bot culd not help him. 
   Upone the bak of this, cumis to the Road, upone the 16 of    #
Aprile, this 
samen Pirat, and cheassis our haill fisher boitis, and settis   #
on schoir tua of thair
owne men, declairing, since thair pryze of hering wes takin,    #
thay wold content
with skipper Walkeris schip (whiche wes valourit worth 20,000   #
merkis, 
and far above the worth of the hering pryze), and keip hir,     #
and let Abirdene
keip the hering bark, and go thair way without moir offens,     #
provideing thay
wold send thair men quhilk thay had wardit in Abirdene aboord,  #
and receave
thair hering men whiche thay had takin fra thair schip; whiche  #
wes agreit 
upone; ilk schip receavit hir owne men, and to the sea gois     #
scho, haveing still 
skipper Walkeris schip fast, to the gryte greif and overthrow   #
of the honest
man. The Danes gettis bak ther owne bark with sic hering as     #
major Nathaniell
Gordoun had left onsauld; and the marques reprovit the said     #
Nathaniell 
veray bitterly for taking of the said hering without his        #
command, breiding also 
sic gryte feir and skaith to our coast syde; quhairat this      #
Nathaniell Gordoun 
wes so angrie that he haistellie took his leive, and left the   #
marques' service. 
   Sonday 7 Aprile, the marques hard devotioun befoir and       #
efter none in Old 
Abirdene, Mr. Williame Strathauchin preichit; syne dynit in     #
George Middiltoun's
hous, and returnit bak to his owne lodging in New Abirdene. 
   Mononday 8 Aprile, our Old toun people wes commandit to      #
muster in the 
Lynkis. The marques viewit thame, and saw them a sillie waik    #
people, wanting
armes, albeit he resolvit to tak 35 personis and arme thame     #
him self; bot 
yet he tuke not one man out of the Old toun. Thairefter he      #
went out to the 
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brig of Die, and causit big wp saif gairdis at ilk one of the   #
endis of the said
brig to no purpois. 
  Upone Tuysday 9 Aprile, James Grant with his Hieland men,     #
and divers
companeis of Lowland men, war sent out to plunder and spol+gie  #
the place of 
Kemnay pertening sum tyme to umquhill Sir Thomas Crombie, a     #
faithfull
servand to the hous of Huntlie, and to his name; whair thay     #
brak wp yettis
and durris, got 6000 merkis of money, spol+geit and destroyit   #
the haill plenisching,
plundering his girnellis and ground rigorouslie. Thay did the   #
lyk to 
Pittodrie,  plunderit scheip af of Bannochie and his ground,    #
and landis of 
Mwny pertening to Mr. Robert Farquhar; and throw the country    #
thay went 
plundering lykuys armes and hors quhair ever thay culd be       #
gottin, to the 
wrak and hairschip of the land, following the Covenanteris      #
footstepis that began
this plundering in Scotland. 
   About this tyme, thair wes found swyming upone the loche of  #
Abirdene
pulder rollit in ballis, quhilk had bene cassin thair, lest     #
the marques sould 
have gottin the same. Gryte tryell wes maid, bot none found. 
   Word also of ane bloodie battell fought upone the 14 of      #
Marche betuixt the 
kingis men and oure Scottis army, quhair we had the worst; and  #
that the 
marques of Argyll had left the army and cum be sea to           #
Edinbrughe. 
   Thair wes parteis sent doun to Banf and to Buchane, quhair   #
Auchnagat, 
perteining to the laird of Glenkindie, his girnellis, his       #
goodis, and ground, wes 
pitifullie plunderit; his brother Patrik Strathauchin of        #
Kynnadie plunderit,
and spol+geit his bigging, victuall and all, syne took him self #
prissoner and had
him to Kellie, quhair he remanit upone his awin expenssis.      #
Thair went doun 
to Banf the lairdis of Geicht, Newtoun, Ardlogie, with ane      #
pairtie of fourtie
hors and muskiteiris, brave gentilmen. Thay took in the toune   #
but contradictioun,
mellit with the keyis of the tolbuith, took frie quarteris,     #
and plunderit
all the armes thay could get, buffill cotis, pikis, pistollis,  #
suordis, carrabines,
yea and money also. Thay took from Alexander Winchester, ane    #
of 
the bailleis thairof, 700 merkis, quhilk he [{had{] as ane of   #
the four Collectouris of 
the Taxationis and Loane Silver of Banf; and siclyk took fra    #
him 400 merkis
of his awin geir; and fra [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Schand in Doun  #
thay plunderit sum moneyis.
Thay causit the bailleis (for doctor Douglas thair provest had  #
fled)
and tounesmen subscrive and sueir the band denying the last     #
Covenant, and 
obleigit to follow the king and his deputis in his service, as  #
ye have befoir. 
Thay took also from George Geddes, ane uther of the saidis      #
four Collectouris, 
500 merkis of Taxatioun and Loan Silver. Geicht keipit all the  #
moneyis, 
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about tua thousand and five hundred merkis. Thairefter thay     #
rode to Muresk, 
perseuit the place, and being randerit, thay took the laird     #
with thame; syne 
returnit to Innerurie, quhair thay met with the marques, as ye  #
have heirefter. 
Thay plunderit nothing out of the erll of Marschallis ground    #
of Buchane. 
   Upone the 10 of Aprile, the marques craves the Roll of the   #
Taxatioun of 
auchtene thousand and four hundreth merkis, impoisit be the     #
Estaites upone
the toune of Abirdene, from Mr. Patrik Chalmer thair toune's    #
clerk, who wes 
loth to give the samen but command of the Counsall. Aluaies     #
the marques
alledgit, he had als good richt to lift the samen as the        #
Estaites, and took ordour
thairwith, as ye sall heir. 
   Upone the 11 of Aprile, he lap on, with about 80 hors, and   #
rod from Abirdene
to Strathbogie. Upone Setterday he returnit to Innerurie,       #
quhair mony
of his freindis met him, foot men and hieland men. The laird    #
of Geicht,
Newtoun, and thair companeis, cam thair, and wes estimat about  #
tua thousand 
and fyve hundreth men, quhairof  thair wes four hundreth hors.  #
He
mist sum of Strathbogie men oncum thair, quhairupone he         #
directit M'Ronald 
to go plunder and bring thame in. At this meiting the Tutour    #
of Struan cam 
out of Atholl with about 60 foot men to the marques. He stayit  #
at Innerurie
Satterday and Sonday, and lodgit in umquhill Williame Fergus    #
his hous, and 
his men quarterit about him within the toune. 
   Upone Mononday 15 Aprile, he returnit about sex houris at    #
evin, to Abirdene.
He causit mak sum Ensignes, quhair on ilk syd was drawin ane    #
red 
rampand Lion, haveing ane croun of gold above his heid, and     #
C.R. for (\CAROLUS REX\),
haveing this motto, FOR GOD, THE KING, AND AGAINST ALL 
TRAITTOURIS, and beneth, GOD SAVE THE KING.  Thair wes divers   #
utheris 
Pinsellis maid for the barronis. The marques and his            #
folloueris weir ane blak
taffetie about thair crag, quhilk wes ane signe to fight to     #
the death; bot it 
provit utheruayes. 
   Upone Sonday 14 Aprile, by ordinance of the Committee of     #
the Kirk or Generall 
Assemblie at Edinbrughe, being Sonday, the marques of Huntlie,  #
the 
laird Drum younger, Robert Irving his brother, the laird of     #
Haddoche, the 
laird of Schethin, the laird of Tibbertie, Thomas Hay           #
servitour to Haddoche,
Mr. James Kennedy secretar to the marques, whois names are      #
Alexander Irving
younger of Drum, Robert Irving his brother, Sir John Gordoun    #
of Haddoche,
Williame Seytoun of Schethin, Williame Innes of Tibbertie, war  #
all 
excomunicat at Sanct Geillis kirk, and ordanit the nixt         #
ensewing Sonday to be 
excomunicat (altho Pashe day) throw all the rest of the kirkis  #
of Edinbrughe.
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   This is to be nottit, that this Committee of the Kirk,       #
without citatioun, 
probatioun, proces or sentence according to thair owne          #
disciplyn of the Kirk, 
went on most maliciouslie to excomunicat this noble man and     #
sum of his 
freindis without lauchfull proces, or ony ressone, bot for his  #
loyaltie to his 
Majestie the King, doing all thay could to mak him odius in     #
the sicht of the 
people. Bot the marques wyslie beheld all. Sie [{hereafter{]    #
the veray act of 
the commissioneris of the Generall Assemblie maid thairanent. 
   Upone Tuysday 16 Aprile, [{the marques{] causit carie to     #
Strathbogie tua of 
John Andersonis schip  cart peices to stok, as wes said, and    #
that samen day convenit
the counsall of Abirdene and haill inhabitantis, commanding     #
thame aganes 
Setterday nixt to provyde thair taxatioun of auchtein thousand  #
and four hundreth
merkis. The bailleis ansuerit, the people wold on nawayes pay   #
the samen, 
except thay thame selves gave thair band to warrand the         #
toune's people from 
payment of the samen over agane, which thay said thay could     #
not do, as a 
mater tending to thair wrack, if the toune war put at agane by  #
the Estaites. 
The marques ansuerit, if the toun wold receave tua hundreth     #
and fyftie soldiouris,
and farder as necessitie requyrit, upone frie quarteris, and    #
thay to be 
payit out of the commoun good for thair intertynnement, he will #
behald 
thame; quhairunto the toun condiscendit, thinking it the best   #
way rather 
then to pay out the taxatioun altogidder. Aluayes thay gat,     #
upone the 18 of 
Aprile, tuelf scoir soldiouris on frie quarteris; and           #
thairefter, upone the 24 of 
Aprile, thay resavit fourtein scoir moir of soldiouris,         #
making in the haill fyve 
hundreth and tuentie soldiouris, quhilk the thesaurer of        #
Abirdene gat compt
of to sustein upone frie quarteris. The thesaurer of Abirdene   #
wes commandit
to pay the charges of thir soldiouris to the toune's people     #
who intertynneit
thame. Besydis, the marques intertynneit upone his awin         #
expenssis his owne 
men of Strathbogie, Strathavan, Eng+gie; and the barronis       #
sustenit thair awin 
men, whome thay brocht in; and ilk gentilman friehalder did     #
the lyk, so long
as thair moneyis lestit, and when thay wantit thay ar forsit    #
to tak frie quarteris
with the rest in Abirdene. The marques himself wes above 500    #
merkis 
debursit daylie upone his owne soldiouris, quhilk drew to       #
muche money, 
quhairof it is said he had about 100,000 pundis when he began   #
lying besyd 
him in reddy money, and schortlie wes consumeit. 
   The toune of Abirdene began to repent thair bargane,         #
thinking it better to 
have payit thair taxatioun nor to sustein soldiouris daylie,    #
as thay came in, 
upone frie quarteris, if it continewit long.
   Aluaies the marques wes forsit to tak Abirdene as the        #
fittest pairt for his 
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randevous; and for thair better eis sent daylie out pairteis    #
to plunder girnellis,
who wold not cum in to him; amonges whome the laird of Lesleis
girnellis in Banchorie, and the laird of Wdnyis girnellis of    #
[^BLANK IN THE TEXT^]; sic as 
wes left oncareit to Urie wes plunderit out of Banchorie; and   #
this wes done 
upone the 16 of Aprile. 
   Thair wes found yirdit in Mr. Robert Farquharis clois tua    #
fyne brassin 
peices pertening to the lord Sinckler, quhilk the marques       #
mellit with about 
this tyme in Abirdene, and wes glaid in getting thairof. 
   Tuysday 16 Aprile wes the day of the Provinciall Assemblie   #
at Abirdene;
bot the ministeris durst not in thir troublesome tymes keip     #
the same for feir 
of plundering thair hors.  Aluaies sic of the bretheren as      #
convenit continewit
this Assemblie to Tuysday the 14 of May, quhilk wes keipit. 
   Thair cam word to Abirdene, upon Wedinsday the 17 of         #
Aprile, that the 
lord Elcho wes cum to Dundie with 800 Fyf men; that the erll    #
of Kingorne, 
the erll of Southesk and utheris had raisit 800 men; that the   #
marques of Argyll
had raisit out of Perthschire 800 men; and that thair wes       #
cuming out of 
Argyll about 1000 men, by and attour 800 men cuming out of      #
Ireland of the 
erll of Lauthean and laird of Laeris regiment; and that the     #
erll Marschall
and viscount of Arbuthnot had raisit out of the Mernis about    #
500 men; and
drawing haistellie to ane heid aganes the marques of Huntlie    #
his freindis and 
followeris; and that thair wes committees daylie holding at     #
Forffar for Angous, 
and at Fordoun for the Mernis; quhilk over treulie cam to pas.  #
Bot 
the marques seimit to tak littill heid heirof, albeit his kin   #
wes more forduartlie
set; quhairupone follouit sorrow, schame, and skaith, as ye may #
heir. 
   Now the marques, being informit of this preparationis,       #
causit warne be 
sound of trumpet at the cros of Abirdene all suche as had       #
gottin his protectioun
to meit him at Innerurie the 18 of Aprile, with certificatioun  #
his protectioun
sould be null. He appointit Major Hay with sum troupes and      #
foot 
to keip Abirdene, and, upone the foirsaid 17 of Aprile, rydis   #
from Abirdene
to Innerurie; his goodfone Alexander Irving younger of Drum     #
with about 
40 hors follouit him in the efternone. He rode throw the Old    #
toun, haveing 
tua cullouris, one haveing the Kinges armes, the uther haveing  #
the Irvinges
armes. The marques, at his lichting, causit quarter his men     #
thair convenit
at Innerurie, Kintoir, and Muchallis; him self stayit           #
Wedinsday and Thuirsday
in umquhill William Fergusone's hous in Innerurie. He directit  #
out Donald
Farquharsone, M'Ronald, the Tutour of Struan with thair         #
folloueris, and 
some lowland foot men, about tua hundreth and fourtie persones, #
to attend 
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sum hors troupes going upone ane expeditioun into Angous; and   #
so left Innerurie,
[{and{] cam bak to Abirdene upone Frydday the 19 of Aprile. 
   Upone Setterday, he causit dreill wp in the Lynkis sic men   #
as he had within
the toune, estimat about auchtscoir hors, and betuixt sevin     #
and aucht  hundreth
foot; and about four efternone the marques returnit fra the     #
Lynkis to 
the toune. And immediatlie thairefter Alexander Irving of Drum  #
younger, Robert
Irving his brother (who had ingaged thameselvis in this         #
bussines aganes
thair fatheris will, as wes said), [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^]        #
Gordoun of Geicht younger, Johne 
Gordoun his father brother, Johne Gordoun of Ardlogie, Major    #
Nathaniell 
Gordoun, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Urquhart of Craghouse, Williame  #
Innes of Tibbertie, Alexander 
Irving of Kincousie, and sum utheris, rode that same nicht out  #
of Abirdene
wp Die side, about thriescoir tuelf hors, commanderis and all.  #
They 
gave ordouris to the foot men forsaid, and, upone Mononday the  #
22 of Aprile, 
thay passit all over Die, intending onlie to go to Montrois,    #
and to tak the tua
brassin Cartowis lying thair, if thay war not impedit; quhilk   #
wes most  dangerous
and desperat in respect of an gathering at Fordoun and ane      #
uther at 
Forfar, and utheris before specifeit. Aluaies forduard thay     #
went, being of all,
foot and hors, about 300 men; and, upone Wedinsday the 24 of    #
Aprile, be tua 
houris in the morning, with sound of trumpet thay cam to the    #
toun, who had 
set on fyres upon thair stepill to walkin the countrie, and     #
wes in armes thameselffis,
and rang the commoun bell; bot all for nocht.  Thay boldlie     #
enterit
Montrois, dang the toune's people fra the calsey to thair       #
houssis, and out of the 
foirstaires thay schot desperatlie, bot thay war forssit to     #
yield by many feirfull
schotes schot aganes thame; quhair unhappellie Alexander        #
Peirsone ane of 
thair bailleis wes slayne, sum sayes by Nathaniell Gordoun,     #
utheris holdis by 
ane hieland man whome the said baillie also slew. Thairefter,   #
it wes said, thay
intended to schip thir Cartowis in ane schip lying in Montrois  #
water pertening
to Alexander Burnet elder in Abirdene be consent of Alexander   #
Burnet
his sone, who hapnit to be thair and had promesit no les,       #
being ane antecovenanter.
Bot, by this Burnetis knowledge, James Scot now provest of      #
Montrois
with certane of his neightbouris had quietlie convoyit          #
thameselffis with 
thair best goodis into the said schip. When scho began to       #
fleit, scho drawis
nar the schoir, quhair young Drum and his men war thinking to   #
schip thair 
Cartowis, according to Alexander Burnetis promeis foirsaid,     #
and to have had 
thame about be sea to Abirdene. Bot, far by thair expectatioun, #
this schip
schot fyve or six peice of ordinans disperatlie amongis thame,  #
with about fourtie
muscattis, quhair by the gryte providens of God thair wes bot   #
onlie tuo
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men killit, and sum hurt. Drum seing this, thay reteirit thame  #
selffis, brak 
the quheillis of the Cartowis, for mair thay culd not do, nor   #
brak thame thay
micht not, and threw thame over the schoir to mak thame         #
unserviceable; bot 
thay war brocht to Abirdene, as ye have [{hereafter.{]
   Drum returnis to the toune, and beginis to brak wp merchand  #
boothis, 
plunder, and cruellie spol+gie ritche merchandice, clothis,     #
silkis, velvotis, and 
uther costlie wair, silver, gold and silver wark, armes and     #
all uther thing, 
quhairat the hieland men wes not slaw. Thay brak wp a pype of   #
Spanish 
wyne, and drank hartfullie. Thay took Patrik Lichtoun lait      #
provest, and 
Androw Gray, prissoneris. Thay left Montrois in wofull cace,    #
about tuo efternone;
syn, that samen nicht, went to Cortoquhy to meit with the erll  #
of Airlie, 
who heiring of the marques of Argyllis cuming wold not give     #
thame entrie, 
contrair to thair expectatioun. Aluays thay returnit thairfra   #
touardis
Abirdene; bot be the way thair wes takin 32 hieland men, sum    #
sayis 52, who 
had unwyslie biddin behind the rest, plundering the Montrois    #
goodis, and is 
takin, schaklit, and sent to Edinbrughe, to pay for thair       #
faultis. Major Gordoun
cam bak to Abirdene upone Frydday the 26 of Aprile; and young
Drum went to the place thairof to sie his lady. Patrik          #
Lichtoun and Androw 
Gray cam in, with major Gordoun, who declarit the gryte forces  #
that wes 
gathering, and that the marques of Argyll wes cum to Dunnotter  #
quyetlie;
quhilk wes over trew. 
   It is heir to be nottit, that notwithstanding of the many    #
schotis schot 
within the toune and out of the schip, yit it pleissit God      #
that few wes killit to
Drumis syde, except tua or thrie persones, mervallous to sie!   #
and als few to 
the other syde, except Alexander Peirsone baillie, who wes      #
schot be Natheniell 
Gordoun. Thair intentioun wes to have schippit thir Cartowis    #
within the foirsaid
schip to have brocht about when scho cam with hir ladning to    #
Abirdene;
bot thay gat ane cruell assault, as ye have befoir, and wes     #
michtellie disappoyntit.
   The tutour of Struan with sum hieland men did brave service  #
with thair
schort gunis. 
   It is said, that Drum causit rais fyre tua severall tymes    #
in Montrois, yit 
major Gordoun still quenshit and pat out the samen. 
   Efter this ungodlie and grevous oppressioun, the young       #
laird Drum returnit,
as I have said, not with the bodie of ane weill governit army,  #
as he went out, 
bot ilk ane efter uther, stragling; and, upone Setterday the    #
27 of Aprile, he 
cam to Abirdene, quhair the marques wes lying still, to his     #
gryte unhap,
schame, and disgrace, as heirefter ye may sie. 
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   Ye hard of the marques of Argyllis cuming to Dunnotter. He   #
cam quyetlie, 
about 32 hors, upone the 26 of Aprile, attending thair the      #
cuming of the 
Perthschire men, and of the erll of Lauthean and laird of       #
Laeris regiment cuming
out of Ireland, of whome ye fall heir moir schortlie. The lord  #
Forbes, 
and maister of Forbes his sone, Sir Williame Forbes of          #
Gragiwar,  Alexander 
Strathauchin of Glenkindie, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Forbes of     #
Echt, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Skein of that 
ilk, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Forbes of Leslie, [^BLANK IN THE     #
TEXT^] Calder of Asloun, and sindrie utheris,
sic as Androw lord Fraser, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Forbes of      #
Tolquhone, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Forbes
of Wattertoun, Johne Kennedy of Kermuk, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^]   #
Forbes Tutour of Petsligo,
[^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Fraser of Phillorth, Sir Williame Forbes  #
of Monymusk, who 
had tane thame selffis to strenthis, cumis now to the feildis.  #
Bot the lord
Forbes, the maister of Forbes, Cragiwar, Glenkindie, Echt,      #
Skeyne, and sum 
utheris, went to the Commitees of Angous and Mernis abefoir     #
the cuming of 
the marques of Argyll, and the rest keipit thair houssis. 
   Upone Sonday 21 Aprile, the marques hard sermon in Old       #
Abirdene befoir 
and efternone, dynit in George Middeltoun's. Thair cam over     #
ane guard out 
of the toune about 60 muskiteiris and pikoneiris, with tua      #
cullouris, ane drum, 
and ane bag pipe. Thay attendit the marques lodging, syne       #
returnit bak, and 
the marques following upone horsbak, to Abirdene. 
   Johne Kennedy of Kermuk, ane mane covenanter, wes in Aprile  #
first plunderit
be Robert Irving, the laird Drumis sone, quhair his best hors   #
and sum 
armis wes takin fra him; thairefter Sir Johne Gordoun of        #
Haddoche plunderit
sum wark hors fra his pure tennentis. He wold eit none of       #
Kermuk's
meit; bot baid with Mr Androw Leitche minister his table, and   #
lay in the 
place of Kermuk all nicht. His soldiouris lay in Ellon, who gat #
meit fra the 
place, and kest in ane littill stak of his beir for thair hors  #
meit. Thay stayit 
thair 24 houris, syne rode  thair way. 
   Patrik Strathauchin of Kynnadie, at this samen tyme, wes     #
plunderit and 
tane captive and had to Kelly, becaus he wold not pay the said  #
Sir Johne 
Gordoun ane fyne. But fra Kelly he wes transportit to Tolly,    #
and fairlie wan 
away. 
   Upone Wedinsday the 24 of Aprile, the marques sent Sir       #
Johne Turing of 
Foverane quyetlie to Dunnotter commissioner to the erll         #
Marschall. He upone 
the morne returnit tymlie to the marques with ane ansuer not    #
to his contentment,
quhilk bred ane suddant alteratioun. 
   Now nothing bot plundering of poor menis wark hors, and      #
forsit to redeim
thair awin beistis bak agane by payment of moneyis les or       #
mair, and glaid to 
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get thame so. Thair wes ane naig plunderit fra the persone of   #
Balhelvie, and
another fra the chalmerlane.
   Alexander Gordoun of Brasinoir leavis the marques service,   #
and gois to the
lord Gordoun, who had few abefoir of the name of Gordoun except #
James
Gordoun of Rothemay, and Johne Gordoun of Park, and wes about 
32 hors
of all in company. This Alexander Gordoun wes mareit to the     #
provest Patrik
Leslyis dochter, who wrocht upone the lord Gordoun and sum      #
utheris to
get the prissoneris out of Auchindoun. By whose persuasioun he  #
rydis, charges
[^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Gordoun of Birkinburne, capitane of       #
Auchindoun, to rander him
the hous, becaus his father the marques wes fled and away. He   #
ansuerit, he
had no warrant fra him to rander his hous, and whill he saw him #
self he wold
keip it; and schortlie schot out sum hagbuttis of sound, brak   #
ground befoir
him, bot did no moir skaith. Quhairupone the lord Gordoun       #
returnit bak and
left the hous, quhilk wes upone the [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] day   #
of Aprile.
   The erllis of Montrois, Craufurd, Niddisdaill, Traquhair,    #
Kynnoull, Carnueth,
the viscount of Oboyne, and lord Ogilvy, cam in with ane        #
company of 
hors and fut to Drumfreis in this samen month of Aprile; bot    #
did no vassalage,
and upone thair awin ressones haistellie returnit bak to        #
Carleill. In the
mein tyme James Leslie sone to Johne Leslie of Petcaple,        #
[^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Ruthven,
and uther thrie gentlemen, sitting cairlislie drinking behind   #
the company in
Drumfreis, war suddantlie takin, had to Edinbrughe, and         #
straitlie wardit in
the tolbuith thairof, and thairefter releivit, as ye have       #
heirefter.
   Upone Setterday efternone the 27 of Aprile, thair wes 44     #
soldiouris pertening
to William Seyton of Schethin, Mr. James Buchane of Auchmacoy,  #
and
James Seytoun of Petmedden, who lay in Old Abirdene whill       #
Tuysday upone
the poor people's charges.
   Sonday the 28 of Aprile, the marques hard devotioun in Old   #
Abirdene,
dynit in George Middeltoun's hous; wreit, all the efternone's   #
preiching, missive 
letteris. He had ane gaird with ane cullour attending upone     #
him, bot
nather drum nor pype as befoir. He returnit bak to Abirdene to  #
his lodging.
   Upone Mononday the 29 of Aprile, the marques' freindis       #
beginis to gruge 
and murmur with his delayis, seing his enemeis grow to ane      #
gryte number
and his forces daylie decressing and growing fewer and fewer;   #
and desyrit him
haistellie to go to the Mernis and to Angous and brak thair     #
forces, utheruayis
thay war all loist. He hard all, and went to ane counsall of    #
war, quhair the  
marques alledgit, if he sould leave Abirdene and go to the      #
Mernis, then he
wes sure the Forbesses and Fraseris and uther Covenanters sould #
cum and tak
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in the toune, and follow him hard at the heilles to the Mernis  #
to his seing
perrell and gryte danger; and declairit he had ressone to       #
delay, in respect of 
his hoipis, quhilk wes now liklie to deceave him. For first,    #
he wes informit 
most crediblie be his owne servitour Johne Gordoun (alias       #
Johne of Beruick),
that his Majestie sould have ane commissioun at him for         #
raising of armes, befoir
he sould rys; 2. That his Majestie sould have in ane army in    #
Scotland 
about the last of Marche for his forder assureans; quhilkis the #
said Johne Gordoun 
be his gryte oath told him, becaus he durst not carie letteris  #
out of England 
to him, lest they had bein intercepted. 3. He had hopes of the  #
lord
Forbes and his owne vassallis of that name and divers utheris   #
lordis and erllis
south and north to have rysin als sone as he rais, quhairupone  #
he lay still attending
thair rysing. 4. The good opinioun he did conceive of the       #
countrie 
people both in brughe and land, grevouslie groaning wnder the   #
tyrrany and 
oppressioun of the Estaites, lifting men, hors, loan money,     #
levie money, armes, 
excises, and suche like cruelteis, to thair unspeikabill        #
sorrow. Upone thir ressones,
he said he had too rashlie ingageit him self and his freindis,  #
quhilkis 
he perceavit now had cleirlie faillit him, and he knew weill,   #
that he and 
his freindis wes not abill to give battell to the               #
invinsibill army cuming 
against him; taking the gryte God to witness it wes sore        #
against his will,
and if he could sie the lest spark of liklihood or outget, he   #
sould byd it to the 
last man. 
   His freindis heiring this discours (quhilk wes most trew)    #
becam sorrowfull.
Aluaies thay fell upone the nixt best cours, quhilk wes, seing  #
thay war unhabill
to give battell, that the marques sould hold his freindis       #
togidder, and goe 
with ane fleing army, wait upone the wynges of thair enemeis    #
forces, leive 
upone thair enemyis countrie goodis, and in tyme of neid to     #
draw to Strathbogie,
Auchindoun, or the Bog, to the wyreing of the enemy, and byde   #
a 
better fortoun if ony help sould cum fra the king for thair     #
releif. This counsall
wes approvin, and, becaus the Southland army wes at hand, thay  #
resolve
to meit at Strathbogie with all the forces thay could mak. Bot  #
major Nathaniell
Gordoun who wes rebuikit for the herynge prys, as ye hard,      #
miscontent 
with this cours, quytis the marques' service, and gois to the   #
lord Gordoun, who 
wold not heir of him; and so he leivit be him self, of whome    #
ye may sie moir 
heirefter. 
   Upone Tuysday the 30 of Aprile, he wes informit that his     #
sone the lord
Gordoun wes in the toune of Banf growing to ane heid; heirfoir  #
he liftis
John Andersonis tuo cairt peices, and the tuo brassin peices    #
found in Mr. Robert
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Farquharis, clois, and sent them to Strathbogie, and            #
immediatlie gois to 
hors for Banf: bot his sone had no sic intentioun as to grow    #
to ane heid
against him.
   Upone the first of May, Androw Gray wes sent bak from        #
Abirdene to Montros
haill and sound; bot Patrik Lichtoun wes sent to Auchindoun,    #
to byd 
with oure Abirdenis prissoneris. And thairwith Sir George       #
Gordoun of 
Geicht, Alexander Irving younger of Drum, Robert Irving his     #
brother, with 
about 60 hors, rode throw the Old toun with new quhyte lances   #
in their 
handis to Strathbogie. The marques left all his freindis in     #
Abirdene, when 
he rode to Banf, wnder gryte feir, as thay had caus. From Banf  #
he gois to 
Strathbogie, quhair his freindis met him, and wes ane brave     #
company about 
300 hors and 1500 foot. Upone the [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] day of  #
May, Sir Johne Gordoun of 
Haddoche, Alexander Irving younger of Drum, Sir George Gordoun  #
of Geicht,
and principallis of his freindis thair, deallis with the        #
marques to give ordour 
for his fleing army. He changes resolutioun, seing he wes not   #
abill to give
battell. It was said thay ansuerit, "We have schawin our selfis #
foolishlie, and
will leave the feildis schamefullie. We thocht never better of  #
it." Young
Drum stayit the marques weill roodlie on going to his hors      #
anes or tuys;
quhairat he wes offendit. Aluaies heir thir brave gentlemen     #
pairtis with sore
hairtis, and quhairupone mekill sorrow fell schortlie           #
thairefter. 
   The marques rydis in anger upone the morne to Artclach,      #
quhair he wes 
all night; upone the morne, rydes to Auchindoun, quhilk wes     #
the sevint of 
May, and immediatlie setis Patrik Leslie provest, Mr. Robert    #
Farquhar, Alexander 
and John Jossrayis, and the said Patrik Lichtoun to libertie,   #
who cam 
to Abirdene with gryter credet nor thay war takin out of it.    #
He seikis about
for his owne saiftie, and bydis quyetlie in Auchindoun, quhill  #
ye may sie. Sie
also of the incuming of oure Abirdenis prissoneris.
   Ye heir how the marques of Huntlie had left the toune of     #
Abirdene, contrair
to the expectatioun of many, upone the last of Aprile, leaving  #
his haill 
freindis within the toune in gryte feir and melancholie of ane  #
Southland army
to cum schortlie, as it did; for upone Thuirsday thairefter,    #
the second day
of May, thair cam to Abirdene the lord Burly and the lord       #
Elcho with the 
men of Fyf, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] with Perthschire men, the     #
erll of Marschall and viscount
of Arbuthnot with the men of Mernis, the erll of Kingorne and   #
lord of Carnegie
with the Angous men. Thair cam out of thir four schires about   #
the 
number of 2000 fut and 400 hors, by baggage men and hors. Thay  #
war 
weill furneishit with ammunitioun, pulder, matche, ball,        #
muscatis, carribinis,
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pikis, suordis, cullouris, pistollis, puterlinges and uther     #
armes, careing this 
motto, FOR THE COVENANT, RELIGIOUN, THE CROUN, AND THE          #
KINGDOME. 
Ilk severall company had thair capitans, commanderis, and       #
officiares, 
thair trumpettouris and drumis. Thay cam all in goodly ordour   #
of battel, 
terribill to thair enemeis, and joyfull to thair freindis.      #
Thay took up thair 
randevous that nicht in the Lynkis and beyond the water at      #
Torry, and fed
upone ther awin provisioun, whiche wes careit with them. 
   The marques of Argile who had cum to Dunnotter, as ye hard   #
befoir,
rydis thairfra to the place of Drum, about 400 hors, and cam    #
not into Abirdene
with the rest of the army. The erll Marschall cam not in        #
nather with 
the Mernis men; bot wes with Argile, who also follouit him to   #
Drum. Thair
cam also to him the erll of Lauthean and laird of Laeris        #
regiment out of Ireland,
about 500 brave soldiouris, with [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] wemen. 
   Sir Alexander Irving of Drum wes not at home when Argile     #
and the rest
came; bot his lady, and his gude dochter ladie Marie Gordoun    #
and sister 
dochter to Argile, wes present. He and his company war all      #
maid welcum 
according to the tyme. Thair wes uther 500 soldiouris cuming    #
out of Argile 
to him also; by and attour the haill north wes at his command.  #
He  causit
schortlie put the ladeis to the yettis, thair haill men         #
servandis and wemen servandis
also. The ladeis cam out with tua gray plaidis, and gat tua     #
wark 
naiges whiche bure thame in to Abirdene. The rennegat Irish     #
soldiouris thairefter
fell to, and pitifullie plunderit and abusit this noble hous. 
   Now at the incuming of this army to Abirdene the             #
covenanteris wes no les 
blythe nor the noncovenanteris wes wo; for the ane factioun     #
croppit the calsey 
couragiouslie, prydfullie, and disdanefullie; the uther         #
factioun wes forsit to 
walk humelie, and to suffer the pryde of thair toun's           #
nightbouris, who rejoisit
at thair miserie. Sum fled the toun, utheris convoyit thair     #
goodis out of the 
way, and ilk noncovenanter did for him self the best maner he   #
could. Howsoever,
this army, foot and hors, Hieland and Lawland men, and Irish    #
regiment, 
wes estimat, bag and baggage, to be about 6000 men, unhappelie  #
raisit 
by the unfortunat marques of Huntlie's rysing, to the gryte     #
hurt and wrak of 
thir north pairtis, as efter ye sall heir, and yit nowayes the  #
marques' fault, as
ye hard befoir. 
   Ye hard of the marques of Argiles cuming to Drum, and of     #
the erll Marschallis 
cuming to him, and Irish regiment; whiche regiment leivit       #
upone the 
laird Drumis victuall and goodis. The marques schortlie         #
removit the tua 
ladeis and set thame out of yettis perforce (albeit the young   #
ladie wes his awin
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sister dochter) with tua gray plaidis about thair heidis.       #
Thair haill servandis 
wes also put to the yett; bot the ladeis cam in upon tua wark   #
naiges in pitifull
maner to New Abirdene, and took wp thair lodging besyde the     #
goodwyf
of Auchluncart, then duelling in the toune. Then thir runagat   #
Irish soldiouris
fell to, and plunderit the place of Drum, quhairin wes stoir    #
of insicht plenishing
and ritche furnitour, and all uther provisioun necessar. Thay   #
left nothing 
which could be careit, and brak doun the staitlie bedis,        #
burdis, and tymber wark.
Thay killit, and destroyit the bestiall, nolt, scheip, ky, for  #
thair meit. Thay
brak wp girnellis, quhair thay had plenty of meill and malt.    #
Thay fand 
yirdit in the yaird of Drum ane trunk full of silver plait,     #
goldsmith wark, 
jewellis, chaynes, ringes, and uther ornamentis of gryte        #
worth, and estimat 
above 20,000 pundis, quhairof pairt wes sein in Abirdene.       #
Thus, thir ladeis 
being removit with thair servandis, and all thingis plunderit   #
by thir Irish 
rogues, then the marques appointit ane capitane with 50         #
muskiteires of thir 
people to keip this hous, and left tuo peice of ordinance also  #
with them, quhair
thay leivit upone the lairdis girnellis and goodis whill thay   #
war removit, and 
utheris put in thair place, as ye sall heir. Thair wes          #
following the Irish regiment
about 51 wemen with sum young childrein. Thir wemen wes         #
quarterit 
in Old Abirdene. Thay gat nothing bot hous roume, for thay      #
receavit 
weiklie ilk woman out of the girnellis of Drum tua peccis of    #
meill, quhairon
thay leivit, and wes punctuallie brocht to the Old toun and     #
payit. Thay had 
ane capitane over thame to sie thame weiklie payit, and that    #
thay did no 
wrong. So thir wemen remanit in Old Abirdene als long as the    #
men stayit 
in Drum, and when thay removit thairfra, thay removit out of    #
the Old toun
without doing ony wrong. Thus, is this auncient hous of Drum    #
oppressit,
spol+geit, and pitifullie plunderit, without ony fault          #
committit be the old laird
thairof; bot onlie for his tua sones following of the hous of   #
Huntlie, and as
wes thocht foir against his will also. Aluaies this is to be    #
nottit for the marques
of Argile's first peice of service in this play, without love   #
or respect to 
his sister dochter or innocencie of the old laird Drum, whair   #
for a whyll I will
leave him doubtles in greif and distres. 
   Upone Setterday 4 May, the erll of Kingorne is establishit   #
governour in 
Abirdene, haveing ane garrisoun to attend him; and about tua    #
efternone the  
army beginis to marche out of Abirdene, and both the tounes     #
sent out and 
furneshit baggage horssis to follow them. Thay had the          #
viscount of Arbuthnet,
the lord Elcho, the lord Burly, with uther capitanes and        #
commanderis 
of good worth. Thair wes 25 cullouris, cairtpeices,             #
trumpettaris and drumis,
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in good ordour. Thay marchit this nicht to Chrystes grein at    #
Wdny, quhair 
thay lay. 
   And that samen 4 of May, the marques of Argile, haveing      #
drest the place
of Drum as ye have hard, with the erll Marschall, and Irish     #
regiment, marches 
from the said hous touardis Kintor and Innerurie, quhair        #
provisioun wes sent 
out of Abirdene upone both the toune's horssis, and thair they  #
encampit. The 
innocent old laird Drum cam to thir lordis in humell maner,     #
accompaneit onlie 
with Mr. Williame Davidsone schirref depute of Abirdene. He     #
had sum speiches 
with thame, but fand littill comfort. At last he took his       #
leive, and gat licens
to go to Frendracht, quhair his dochter wes mareit to the       #
viscount of Conva 
of Frendracht. 
   It is said, quhill as this army is lying at Innerurie, the   #
marques of Argile 
sent ane trumpettour with ane letter to the marques of Huntlie  #
being in 
Strathbogie; bot what it wes or what ansuer it receavit I can   #
not tell, for the 
laird Drum and his brother with sum few utheris wes with him in #
Strathbogie,
with whom he appeirit veray joyfull all that day; and upone     #
the morne 
thairefter he went quyetlie to Auchindoun, as ye have befoir,   #
quhair I will 
leave the marques. 
   Upon Mononday 6 May, the army marchit fra Wdny touardis the  #
place of 
Kelly, whairon thair wes no roofe bot the wallis stronglie      #
built standing on 
volt; for the laird duelt in lauche bigging besyde the hous,    #
and had fortefeit 
the wallis with faill, quhairby men might stand and defend the  #
hous. The 
laird had sum freindis, servandis, and tennentis within the     #
hous, weill furneshit
with meit, drink, and all uther necessar provisioun; and store  #
of ammunitioun,
sic as hagbuttis of found, muscatis, carrabinis, suordis,       #
pikis, pistollis, 
pulder, ball, and suche like. He causit burne wp his awin       #
stables, barnes, 
byres, and uther lauche bigging, lest the same sould be ane     #
scons or refuge to 
his enemeis, and at thair approche schot divers hagbuttis of    #
found and muscattis
to hold thame af; who wes also attending the cuming of the      #
marques 
of Argile and erll Merschall who cam from Innerurie to Kelly,   #
accompaniet
with the lord Gordoun, the lord Fraser, the maister of Forbes,  #
and divers uther 
barronis, leaving his regiment of Irishis lying at Innerurie. 
   The marques seing this hous could not be win bot with        #
effusioun of muche 
blood sendis ane trumpettour summonding the laird of Haddoche   #
to rander
the hous, utheruys sic as would cum willinglie out and yeild    #
sould have conditionis
of thair lives and goodis, and thay who would stand out sould   #
have no 
mercie. This charge seemit veray strange, and with all Walter   #
Ritcherdsone
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his canoneir lap the wallis of Kelly and stall away to the      #
camp, to all thair 
gryter greifis that wes within the hous. At last the laird and  #
the rest gois to 
counsall, quhair his men declarit thay wold byd be him          #
providing he wold 
schaw thame ane way to stand out, utheruayis thay wold rather   #
yeild now 
upone conditionis, nor yeild perforce without ony conditionis.  #
The laird of 
Haddoche wes now put to grite extremetie, and could be no       #
meinis draw thame 
fra thair opinioun, quhilk doubtles wes thair best, seing ane   #
feirfull army befoir
thame and no kynd of apeirans of releif to rais them. Nather    #
wes it wisdome
to tak the keiping of ane hous aganes ane army, except thay     #
knew of releif
by cuming of ane uther army; utheruayis it is not possibill to  #
no strenth 
long to stand out, bot at last must yeild. The laird of         #
Haddoche now out of 
tyme findis his awin folie, and haistellie hingis out ane       #
signe of parlie and 
callis for his young cheif the lord Gordoun, to whome he        #
offeris to rander his 
hous upone conditioun that him self, his men, and souldiouris   #
within the 
samen, sould be saif in thair lives, landis, and goodis;        #
whiche the lord Gordoun 
culd not get grantit. Then he sent for the erll Marschall       #
craving thir conditionis;
quhilkis war plainlie refusit, and the maist that wes grantit   #
wes, that 
he sould rander his hous, cum out with him self and his men to  #
the marques 
of Argile and lordis and capitanes of the army, and humelie     #
submit them 
selffis, lyf, landis, and goodis in the will of the Estaites,   #
and ordour of the 
army. This wes the maist the erll Marschall could wirk, albeit  #
indeid the 
haill men wan away saif and sound, except sum few, as ye sall   #
heir. The laird 
Haddoche yeildis to the erll Marschall, being his blood freind  #
and laitlie cum 
of his hous, upone thir conditionis; bot not to his young       #
cheif, who offerit 
the same conditionis, quhairat he tuke sum exceptioun, as wes   #
thocht. Now 
the yettis ar all cassin wp. The laird of Haddoche cums out,    #
and all his soldiouris
yeildis thame selffis, thair lives, thair landis, thair goodis  #
to the marques 
of Argile and rest of the nobles and commanderis of the army.   #
Thay keipit 
Haddoche in the camp, and immediatlie sendis in to the          #
tolbuith of Abirdene 
Johne Logie sone to Mr. Androw Logie minister at Rayne, Johne   #
and Alexander
Gordouns sones to [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Gordoun at the milne of #
Kelly, [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Chalmer
sone to Alexander Chalmer of Drymnes, and [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] #
Dilgarnoch, his 
soldiouris, and quyttit all the rest to go home in peace. Then  #
thay set in 
about 36 soldiouris to keip the place of Kelly, whiche thay     #
fand weill furneshit
to thair handis with meit and drink, quhairon thay fed          #
lustellie, with 
about nyne scoir chalderis of victuall in his girnellis; for    #
he had keipit wp 
mekill of thrie yeiris rent to ane darth, and now gat nothing   #
for it.  Statelie 
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wes the plenishing within this hous, and plesant yardis and     #
planting about 
the samen.
   Now the soldiouris brakis lous, and byrnis wp the haill      #
tennentis bigging of 
Mekill Kelly for the most pairt, the bigging of Overhill, and   #
sum biggingis of 
Thornehill; and uther bigging thay tirrit, tuke doun the        #
tymber and maid 
huttis thairof; and lykuaies brak doun and cuttit the plesant   #
planting to be 
huttis, and distroyit the grein growing hedges out at the       #
ground. Thay enterit
to the haill bestiall, nolt, scheip, ky, pertening to the       #
laird on his maynes
and to his tennentis quhairever thay could be found, eit and    #
distroyit wp all.
The erll Marschall him self mellit with fyve or sex sadill      #
horssis of good 
worth, pertening to the laird of Haddoche. His haill armes      #
within the hous, 
quhairof thair wes plentie, wes pluckit wp and plunderit.       #
Thair wes not 
ane lok, key, band, dur nor wyndo left onbrokin doun daylie to  #
the poor tennentis,
cotteris, and girshmen, who for feir of thair lives had fled    #
heir and 
thair throw the countrie fra thair duellingis, and convoyit     #
sic geir as thay 
could get out of the way. Thay brak doun beddis, burdis,        #
almereis and uther 
tymber wark, and made fyre of the same. 
   Thus is this countrie, both on the one syde and the other,   #
grevouslie oppressit,
and the people crying daylie to God for ane vengance upone      #
thir cruell
covenanteris for thair unrichteous warkis, but auchtoritie of   #
the king. 
   The hous of Kelly wes randerit upone Wedinsday the 8 of May  #
with litle
seige, and les skaith, being about tua persones slayne to the   #
assaillantis; quhair
I will ceas whill [\afterwards.\]
   The samen nicht that  Kelly wes randerit, the camp rode to   #
Geicht, both 
hors and foot; bot the same wes also randerit upone the morne,  #
the nynt of 
May, be the laird of Geicht elder. His sone the young laird     #
escaipis with tua 
or thrie, and being weill horsit lap the park dykis and         #
saiflie wan away in 
presens of the soldiouris lying about the place, who follouit,  #
bot cam no speid
to thair gryte greif. The old laird is keipit besyde Haddoche,  #
and his soldiouris
set at libertie. Thair is ane capitan with about 24 soldiouris  #
put within 
the place of Geicht, quhilk wes weill provydit with meit, and   #
drink, and uther 
necessares; and quhairin thair wes store of ammunitioun,        #
pulder and ball, 
with victuall in girnellis aboundantlie. Thair wes tua          #
soldiouris slayne to the 
camp but more blood. Sie heirefter of the marques of Argyllis   #
removing. 
   Ye hard befoir, how Haddoche had plunderit and takin Patrik  #
Strathauchin
ane discreit gentilman, wairdit him in Kelly fyftein dayis. He  #
thairefter sent 
him to the place of Tolly Barclay, whiche wes takin in be the   #
marques of 
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Huntlie, and Hew Gordoun maid capitane over 16 soldiouris       #
appointit to be 
keiparis thairof. Bot this Patrik Strathauchin maid quyet       #
freindschip amongis 
the soldiouris, took the capitane, and keipit the hous          #
manfullie whill the army 
came; and syne came bravelie out, and gat his hors and armes    #
agane, quhilk 
Haddoche had plunderit fra him. 
   Now as the marques of Argile is at thir houssis, the Irish   #
regiment lay still
at Innerurie, of whome ye hard befoir. 
   Upone thair bak, cam to Cromar, Bras, Oboyne, Strathauchin,  #
and countreis 
about, 800 Argile Hieland men, quhair thay had in allowans ilk  #
day, to 
be takin of the countrie, 24 bollis meill, sex scoir wedderis,  #
and [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] mairtis,
with thrie scoir dolleris of money. 
   Let the wyser sort now judge how this poor land is sore      #
opprest by incuming
of thir armyes against the kingis auchtoritie. Bot I leave      #
thame taking 
wp thair rentis and moneyis. And thay leivit upone the marques  #
of Huntleis 
landis in Cromar, Glenmuck, and Glentanner, and upone the       #
laird Drumis
landis of Cromar, Strathauchin, and in the landis of Birs, fra  #
thair cuming 
thair, quhilk wes upone the [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] day of May    #
quhill the thrid day of June, as 
ye sall sie heirefter. 
   Ye hard of the marques of Huntleis going to Auchindoun.      #
Howsone he 
cam, he set to libertie Patrik Leslie provest, Mr. Robert       #
Farquhar, Alexander 
and Johne Joffrayis, and Patrik Lichtoun in Montros, upone      #
Twysday the 7
of May, with gryter credit nor thay war takin. And thay, blyth  #
of this good 
luck, cam all ryding to Abirdene throw the Old toun             #
couragiouslie, and lichtit 
in the toune with gryte joy, upone Thuirsday the 9 of May,      #
about 8 houris
at evin. 
   Upone Setterday 11 May, the lord Gordoun cam in to old       #
Abirdene with 
his owne domestikis, and lodgit at George Middiltoun's hous;    #
and, upone the 
morne efter efternoone's sermon, he rode out of the toune       #
agane.

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   Upone Tuysday 15 Aprile, Hurry intendis to marche from both  #
Aberdenis,
drawis out the lord Loudoun his regiment first out of the toun, #
he being
chanceler of Scotland. The trouperis merchis fra the Old toun.  #
As thay ar
going into the toun, the Lauthean regiment raisit ane mutiny    #
aganes thair
commanderis, and went to armes, keipit the toune, cloisit the   #
portis, and wold
not suffer none of Loudoun's regiment lying outwith the portis, #
nar mair
capitane nor commander to tak ordour with thame, nor suffer     #
trouper, or
Loudoun's regiment to enter within the toun. 
   The caus of this mutiny wes for want of clothing and pay     #
promesit to be
givin to them at Abirdene, quhilk the uther regiment and        #
trouperis had
treulie gottin, as wes trew, and thay onlie wanting, quhilk     #
careit sum ressone
with it. Nor forder thay wold not march whill thay war          #
compleitlie payit
of all thair dewis. Major Hurry nor none of the commanderis     #
micht not
mend thame selffis, bot tak patiens perforce; and takis this    #
cours for the lord
Loudoun's regiment that cold not get entrie within the toune,   #
[\that they\]
sould cum bak with the trouperis to Old Abirdene that nicht,    #
upone thair awin
charges, and to get nothing bot hous roume, fyre, candle, and   #
bedis quhair thay
culd be had. This poor toun wes pitifullie distressit, in       #
provyding thair lodginges;
bot mekill mair, to furneish them meit, scars getable for       #
money. The
trouperis socht meit throw the countrie for thair horssis thame #
selffis. Thus
lay thay in both Abirdenis whill Hurry sent to the Estaites for #
moneyis and
clothing. Lykeas upone Thuirsday 17 Aprile ane bark cam about   #
with thir
commodeteis, quhairin Hurryis wyf cam also. He directit hir bak #
agane be
land, and causit schortlie cleith his soldiouris and pay thair  #
dewis. And therefter
thay had stayit fra Frydday the 11 Aprile upone thair           #
expenssis, whiche
wes ressonablie weill payit, upone Setterday the 19 of Aprile   #
thay marchit
altogidder in ane body from Abirdenis touardis Kintoir and      #
Innerurie; from
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that to Old Rayne careing in thair company tua feild peices,    #
(thay plunderit
the landis of Newtoun and Harthill, for the lairdis wes in      #
 Montrois' service);
from that to Strathbogie and the Eng+gie, as ye sall heir.
   Upone the foirsaid 15 of Aprile and thrid Tuysday thairof,   #
oure Provinciall
Assemblie sat doun in New Abirdene, and to thair doun sitting   #
thay heir of
the mutiny amonges the soldiouris foirsaidis. The erll          #
Marschall cam from
Dunnotter to this assemblie, stayit not, bot rode bak upon the  #
morne being
Wedinsday. Mr. Williame Strathauchin, minister at Old Abirdene, #
is chosin
moderatour, for the effaires concerning the Provinciall         #
Assemblie, to the nixt
Assemblie, and Mr. Androw Cant is moderatour for the presbitrie #
of Abirdene.
Maister David Lyndsay, persone of Balhelvie, is disjoynit from  #
this
presbitrie to the presbitrie of Ellon. Mervallous to sie thir   #
alterationis!
   Upone Sonday 13 Aprile, befoir sermon, the viscount of       #
Frendraucht, the
lord Fraser, the maister of Forbes, the lairdis Boyne, Echt,    #
Ludquharne, and
divers utheris who cam in with Hurry to Abirdene, rode from the #
toun; sum
thocht to meit him at Strathbogie.
   Word cam heir, that upone the 11 of Aprile, be command of    #
the Estaites, the
lord Gordon's armes, the laird Delgatie's, and goodman of       #
Cokstoun's armes
also, wes revin at the cros of Edinbrughe, thame selffis        #
declairit traitouris to
thair countrie, and thair landis foirfaltit, for following the  #
king. Strange to sie!
   Ye sie how the place of Lethintie wes perseuit, yit gat no   #
entres. Thairefter
about this samen tyme, Sir Williame Forbes of Cragiwar with     #
his assisteris
cam, took in the hous, pat the lady to the yett, (hir husband   #
being absent,)
plunderit the ground, and sent the cornis to his awin landis of #
Fintray to 
saw, becaus thair wes none left unplunderit or brynt, as ye     #
have befoir.
   Upone Sonday the 20 of Aprile, oure minister red out ane     #
paper, as wes
done at uther churches, warning the schire of Abirdene for      #
Hurreis service
to furneish out 600 dragouneris, man and hors, and to have      #
thair randevous
at Abirdene the 29 of Aprile. The tyme wes schort, yit chargit  #
wnder gryte
panes; bot none keipit or gave obediens, for the country lay    #
groaning wnder
thir havie burdinges.
   Ye sie Montrois is at Kyrremure. It is said he directis      #
M=c=Donald north
into Bras, Cromar, and Glentanner; and him self past south      #
touardes Dunkeld.
And in effect, we had no certainty quhair he went, he wes so    #
obscure.
And, as is said, Baillie wes at Sanct Johnstoun lying with his  #
forces.
   [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Forbes of Skellater, a strong          #
gentleman, agreit with the lord Gordoun
for taking of sum scheip and nolt from his friendis, as ye      #
have; and at
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his command past in to M=c=Donald with 200 soldiouris, and      #
thay merche to
Couper in Angous pertening to the lord of Couper the lord       #
Balmyrrinochis
brother, quhilk he fyrit, and slew Mr. Patrik Lyndsay minister  #
at Couper and
sum utheris; syne routit the lord Balcarras' trouperis lying    #
nar by, killit sum,
and took thair hors and armes; syne took the hillis.
   Upone Wedinsday the 23 of Aprile, the erll Marshall with     #
the lairdis of
Tolquhon, Wattertoun, Kermuk and divers utheris held ane        #
Committee at
Abirdene, syne returnit that same nicht bak to Dunnotter agane. 
   Wedinsday 23 Aprile, thair is takin within Forthe sevin      #
Scottis merchand
schippis, weill ladnit with goodis, and ane of the kingis       #
 schippis, now callit
ane parliament schip, be sum frigotis, whidder Inglish, Irish,  #
[\or\] Dunkirkeris
it is unknowne. James Nicolson in Futtie, quhyt fisher, wes     #
tane at his lynes
be one of thir frigotis, that did him litle skaith nor to his   #
boit. Thay had
him with them, bot sufferit the boit to go home. Thay landit    #
him at the
Bounes, and he, be land, returnit to his owne hous. He could    #
tell nothing
bot that this frigot wes ane man of warr; whome to scho         #
belongit he could
not say. Thairefter out of Forthe wes takin four uther merchand #
schipis
ritchlie ladnit, quhairof capitane Seytoun's schip new gane to  #
say wes one.
Thus is Scotland wrackit both by sea and land.
   Upone Frydday 25 Aprile, Sir Williame Forbes of Cragiwar at  #
his owne
hand takis in the place of Kemnay from the widow ladie thairof, #
plantis sum
soldiouris thairin, being stankit about and of good defens. He  #
plunderit cornis
and victuallis for thair mantenans from the laird of Kincragie, #
syne took his
best sadill hors; and plunderit the countrie about, for the     #
same caus, sic as
Newtoun and Harthill. He plunderit fra thame above aucht scoir  #
oxin and
callit thame to Fyf, and sauld them. He took also George        #
Gordoun of Rynnie.
   Ye hard of Montrois being at Dunkeld. He returnis north; and #
beyond
Die thair cums till him the lord Gordoun out of Auchindoun,     #
M=c=Donald
and his company. Siclike thair cam to him the lord of Oboyne,   #
the maister
of Neper, the laird Delgatie, the laird of Keir younger, who,   #
with the erll of
Niddisdaill and lord Heres, had brokin out of Carleill with     #
about 28 hors
throw David Lesleis army desperatlie, yit happellie saif and    #
sound. Thus
Oboyne, Neper, Delgatie, and Keir cam in to Montris beyond Die, #
who wes
all joyfull of utheris. Thay began to marche, crossis the river #
of Die at the
milne of Crathie, and haistis the lord Aboyne to Abirdene for   #
pulder, and
thay to byd his returne at Skeyne. He cumis doun Die syd upone  #
Thuirsday
the first of May with about 80 hors, cam to Abirdene, settis    #
watches, gois to
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tuo schippes lying in the harberie, plunderis about 20          #
barrellis or kinkenis of
pulder, stayit no longer, bot schortlie past to the camp lying  #
at Skeyne the
same nicht, who wes veray glaid of the pulder, being veray      #
scant thairof. He
did no moir skaith. Yit Mr. Andro Cant, Mr. John Rew and sum    #
covenanteris
fled lyke foxis. Thir barkis bot new cum home from Flanderis.   #
Mr.
Williame Chalmer minister at Skeyne and Mr. Williame            #
Davidsone's hous war
plunderit, and tuo men wes killit by the Irishis; bot no wrong  #
wes done to
the ladie Marshallis lifrent landis.
   Ye hard of Hurryis marche to Strathbogie and the Eng+gie. He #
raysit no
fyre, nor did any wrong to the staitlie pallaces of Strathbogie #
and the Bog;
bot marchit by them to the Eng+gie and incampit about Over and  #
Nether
Bukies, quhair the erll of Findlater, and lord Crichtoun, the   #
laird of Boyne
and sum utheris cam to his assistans. The lord Gordoun, at      #
Hurreyis cuming,
went to Auchindoun, quhair he stayit whill he went to Montrois, #
as ye have
hard, becaus he had no ordour to give battell to Hurry, who all #
this tyme is
plundering the plesand countrie of the Eng+gie. He maid wp 400  #
dragouneris
of the countrie hors, and maid meit of the cornis, victuallis,  #
nolt, scheip,
and ky; and, as wes said, he sent to Frendrachtis tennentis     #
cornis, cattell,
and uther goodis, to help thair loisis. He wes estimat to 1000  #
foot, 200 
trouperis, and 400 dragouneris by and attour sic countrie help  #
as cam in to
him. He campit heir fra about the 20 of Aprile, that he cam to  #
the Eng+gie,
to Frydday the secund of May; and, hearing of Montrois' cuming, #
upone
Setterday the 3 of May, he marchis over Spey, thair to joyne    #
with the Morray
forces. Montrois, lying at Skeyne, upone Frydday the 2 of May   #
be brak of
day he merchis in ane full bodie to Strathbogie, upone the      #
morne to the Bog,
and upone Mononday 5 May past haistellie efter Hurry over Spey. #
He wes
estimat about 4000 men, hors and all; quhair I must ceas.
   Upone Sonday 27 Aprile, oure minister Mr. Williame           #
Strathauchin, as uther
ministers did, maid ane speiche conform to the imprintit        #
paperis anent the
uptaking of the Excise sent from the Committee of Estaitis; the #
particularis
quhairof ye have first be Committee, thairefter ratefeit be     #
Parliament, daitit
the 29 of July 1644, and last of Januar 1645. This Excise       #
ordaint to begin
the 10 of Februar, and to indure bot for ane yeir. Thairefter   #
this day is
alterit and beginis the first of August 1644, and till continew #
untill the first
of August 1645.
   Many devises wes maid for uptaking of this grevouse Excise,  #
fore against the
peoples will, crying out with many maledictioun aganes the      #
samen, as done
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to the wrack of bothe brughe and land; and all for this, to mak #
wp moneyis
to furneish the armyis going into England out of this kingdome  #
for reformatioun
and defence of religioun: bot rather moir truelie, to furneish  #
men to
fight aganes his sacred Majestie, seing he had most gratiouslie #
condiscendit to
oure haill hairtis desyre bothe in churche and policie, quhilk  #
his Majestie
never brak in ane jot; yet we wold not rest, bot rais armes to  #
the wrack of
our countrie upone no trew ressone, as is said befoir. Now,     #
whill as the
people luikit for ane tyrannicall uptaking of this Excise efter #
thir pulpit intimationis,
it wes crost by the incuming of Oboyne to Abirdene, as ye hard  #
befoir.
   Ye heir how Cragiwar took in Kemnay. He alledgit he had      #
warrand fra
the Estaitis to tak, in the tyme of thir troubles, the          #
strongest housiis, and to
fortifie the samen, and the soldiouris to leive upone the       #
rentis of the landis, or
upone the countrie quhair thair wes no rentis able to sustein   #
thame. Richt
so he took in the place of Petcaple, and fortifeit the samen;   #
bot Kemnay he
quytit at the feild of Aufurde, and [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^]       #
Abircrummy younger of Birginbog
manit the samen.
   Upone Tuysday 29 Aprile, thair wes sex severall              #
Proclamationis maid at
the cros of Abirdene, 1. Anent the payment of this Excise;      #
Another, Anent
the selling of the haill forfalted personis landis within the   #
north; bot thair
could be found no byeris. Thair wes four uther worthles         #
Proclamationis,
whiche of purpois I have left onwritten.
   Upone Sonday the 3 of May, Baillie gois into Atholl, burnis  #
and distroyis
this plesant countrie. This is not the first fyre which the     #
Covenanteris raisit
in Scotland, as I beleive. And as the king had givin justlie    #
commissioun to
Montrois to rais fyre and suord agains his rebellis, richt so   #
the countrie Estaitis
gave ordour to rais fyre and suord upone the kingis loyall      #
subjectis, as wes
done be the marques (then erll) of Argyll. For first he raisit  #
fyre, at his owne
hand, upone the erll of Airleis landis, as ye have; syne brynt  #
the landis of
Keppach pertening to M=c=Donald; and siclike brynt the lauche   #
bigging about
the place of Kellie, as ye have; syne demolischit the fair      #
passages of the hous,
with sindrie utheris, without warrand or auchtoritie of oure    #
soveraigne the
king. The raising of this fyre wes thocht gude service by       #
preicheris and
covenanteris, done for reformatioun of religioun and defens     #
thairof, as most
unjustlie thay alledgid since his Majestie had grantit to all   #
our desyres both
in kirk and pollicie, as is weill seen in the [^BLANK IN THE    #
TEXT^] act of parliament. Bot the
king seing thair intentionis wes rather against royaltie nor    #
for religioun,
and withall seing the kingdome borne doun with blood, murther,  #
fyre and
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suord, plundering, robberie and oppressioun, stentis,           #
taxationis, men and
moneyis, done of set purpois against him self and his good      #
subjectis, he, for
repressing of thir abuses, grantis ane commissioun to the       #
marques of Montrois
to rys with fyre and suord aganis his rebellious subjectis, and #
to defend his
trew and loyall servandis. Bot the preicheris and covenanteris  #
raillit and
cryit out against his Majesteis laufull commissioun. Strange to #
sie!
   Baillie haveing brynt wp and destroyit this fair and fertile #
countrie of
Atholl for the loyaltie of the inhabitantis to thair dreid      #
soveraigne, he went
to the castle of Blair ane impregnabill strenth, quhairin mony  #
of the prisoneris
takin at Innerlochie and haill welth of Montrois' army was      #
keipit; bot
he could not get in this hous. And, efter the burning of the    #
countrie, he
plunderit hors, nolt, scheip, and haill goodis thairof, for     #
intertennying of his
army; syne merchis fra Atholl in throw the heidis to Kirremure  #
to Fettercarn,
and upone Setterday 10 of May he cums and campis in the Birs,   #
still
plundering the countrie quhair ever he gois, eiting the grein   #
growing cornis,
scars cum to the blaid, with thair horsis. He wes estimat above #
2000 foot
and sexscoir trouperis. Upone Sonday the 11 of May he marchis   #
to Cromar,
and campis betuixt the kirkis of Coull and Tarlan. He brynt the #
hous of
Terpersie pertening to [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Gordoun; and still #
lay plundering and distroying
of the countrie, abyding the cuming of the lord of Balcarras    #
with his hors
regiment, and that the gentrie of the land sould rys and assist #
him; quhair I
will leave him for a whill.
   Ye hard befoir, how Hurry went upone the 3 of May over Spey. #
Montrois
follouit him over upone the fyft of the said moneth, betuixt    #
whome wes ane
skirmish, quhair James Gordoun sone to George Gordoun of Rynnie #
wes sore
hurt. He is convoyit to the Strudderis, ane freind of his awin, #
to ly whill
he sould be cureit, and had ane gentilman callit Gordoun to     #
attend him. Bot
major Sutherland adverteisis the young laird Innes that he wes  #
lying at this
hous, who rashlie and unadvysedly sent out ane pairty, viz.     #
capitane Smyth,
Alexander Douglas, Mr. Johne Douglas, and Johne Mill younger,   #
all Elgyn
men, with sum utheris, and cruellie thay murder this young      #
gentilman lying sore
woundit, and left his keipar also for death. This wes thocht    #
ane odious deid,
barbarous and inhuman, (this youth not passing 18 yeirs of      #
aige,) whiche wes
weill revengit be Montrois at Olderne and bigging of Elgyne, as #
efter do appeir.
   Hurry wan nothing upone this skirmish; bot marchit wast,     #
removit the
laird of Laeris regiment and Buchannanis regiment out of        #
Innernes, except
so mony as sould keipit the toune. Thair cam also of country    #
people in to
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him, the erll of Sudderland in persone with his pouer, the erll #
of Seafort in 
persone with his pouer, the erll of Findlater him self wes      #
thair, the lord Lovatis 
pouer, bot not him self. The young laird Innes, the Rossis,     #
Monrois, 
Dunbarris, the lairdis of Boyne and Birkenbog, and many utheris #
cam in to
Hurry, who wes estimat about 4000 foot and 500 hors, all expert #
soldiouris
and resolute gentilmen, with brave commanderis, officiaris, and #
capitanis.
Bot Seafort wes thocht to be ane perfidious traittour, who,     #
after he wes
deiply suorne be Montrois to the kingis service, and upone his  #
paroll had gottin
libertie to go home, quhairas Montrois micht have keipit him    #
still in his
company, yit, forgetting his oath maid befoir God, his deutie   #
to his prince,
and this noble man his Majesteis generall, he lap in to the     #
uther syd, as ye
heir sie, quhair he cam in and gave his aith.
   Aluayis Hurry is bussellie be wast Olderne drawing to ane    #
heid. And 
Montrois merchis foruard to Olderne about 3000 foot and hors,   #
quhair he
encampis commodiouslie. And upone Frydday the nynt of May Hurry #
cums
merching foruard touardis Olderne, quhair Montrois wes byding   #
him in
good postur. At last Montrois gives Hurry ane hot charge upon   #
all quarteris,
both with foot and hors; and in schort space the Chancelaris    #
regiment
callit Loudonis regiment, the Lauthean regiment, Laeris         #
regiment, and Buchananis 
regiment (all expert and singular weill traynit soldiouris, as  #
wes in
this kingdome) are for the most pairt cut af, fighting to the   #
death most valiauntlie.
This overthrow wes attribut to ane crouner or major Drummond,
who wheillit about unskilfullie throw his owne foot and brak    #
thair rankis,
quhairby thay war all slayne be the enemy; and for the quhilk,  #
be counsall
of warr holdin thairefter at Innernes, he wes schot, standing   #
on his feit, bot
not at ane post. Thair wes reknit to be slayne heir at this     #
bloodie battell
above 2000 men to Hurry, and about sum 24 gentilmen hurt to     #
Montrois,
and sum few Irishis killit, which is miraculous, and onlie      #
foughten with Godis
awin finger, as wold appeir, so mony to be murderit and cut     #
doune upone the
ane syde and so few on the uther; yit no thankis givin to God   #
for this victorie.
It is to be considderit, that Montrois, his capitanis, and      #
soldiouris wan
this victorie with gryt gloir of armis; and the lord Gordoun,   #
the viscount of
Oboyne, thair name and folloueris, fought so valiauntlie, that  #
he deservit
eternall prais. Mony of Hurryis commanderis with the rest wes   #
killit and
takin prissoneris; of whome the laird of Laeris, Sir John       #
Morray, Sir Gedion 
Morray wes killit; ten or tuelf prissoneris taken, of whome     #
Laeris brother 
callit [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Campbell is ane; 16 cullouris      #
takin, with thair haill baggage
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and ammunitioun, and much money and ritches found. The horsemen #
indeid
fled first, and left thair foot fighting couragiouslie to the   #
death. Thay postit
to Innernes who wes weill horssit; utheris wes killit in thair  #
fleing. Hurry,
Seafort, Sudderland, Findlater, the lairds of Boyne, Innes,     #
Birkinbog, and the
rest wan saiflie away.
   Efter this gryte victorie Montrois directis to burn the      #
laird of Caddell
(Campbellis) landis and housis in Narne, and plunderit his      #
haill goodis. The
erll of Morray being in England his ground wes plunderit.       #
Kinstery and 
Lethenis landis plunderit, and divers utheris landis in the     #
countrie. And upon
Sonday at evin the 11 of May he cums to Elgyne to his supper.   #
He sends out
parteis and burnis the toun of Garmoche pertening to the laird  #
of Innes, and
plunders the freiris of Elgin, bot being churche building wold  #
not burne the
samen, becaus his sone gave ordour to kill James Gordoun of     #
Rynnie. Walter 
Smithis hous, John Millis hous, Mr. Johne Douglas hous of       #
Morrestoun, Alexander
Douglas hous, all in Elgyne, war brunt, becaus thair wes sum of #
thame 
selffis and sum of thair sones at the killing of the said James #
Gordoun. And
siclike the bigging of Spynnie pertening to the said Alexander  #
Douglas in
heritage wes brynt. And sindrie uther tounes housis of Elgyne,  #
throw occasioun
of this fyre, took fyre and wes brynt, sic as Robert Gibsonis   #
hous, George Donaldsonis
and George Sutherlandis housis. The housis pertening to Mr.     #
Johne
Hay provest, and Mr. Gawin Douglas escaipit fyre be             #
compositioun. The
Bischopis Milne and Milntoun pertening to major Sutherlandis    #
wyf in lifrent
wes brunt, for being airt and pairt of the said James Gordoun's #
death. The
laird of Pluscardynes hous in Elgin plunderit. This done, upon  #
Mononday
the 12 of May, Montrois directis the baggage, armes,            #
ammunitioun, an all
the goodis over Spey to the Bog; and, upone Wedinsday           #
thairefter, him self
marchis to the said place: bot stayit not thair, bot gois to    #
Birkinbog, a mane
covenanter, quhair he and sum speciallis ar quarterit. The rest #
of his army
he directis throw the countrie upon quarteris. He sendis ane    #
pairtie and 
burnes wp the toun of Cullen, quhilk wes plunderit abefoir. And #
sic landis
of Frendracht as wes left onbrunt befoir are now brunt wp.      #
Thair wes sum
soldiouris quarterit also in Banf.
   Aluaies [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^] Leith of Harthill cam fra the  #
camp to the Gareoche with
sum soldiouris; and, heiring that Cragiwar had maisterfullie    #
takin George Gordoun 
of Rynnie [\at his\] owne hand, he takis Johne and Mr.          #
Alexander Farquhars,
cusinges [^EDITOR'S EMENDATION Farqu[{hars, cu{] singes^] to 
Cragiwar, and keipis them fast in Harthill whill the said
George Gordoun wes set to libertie. Harthill burnes the toun    #
and landis of
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Thombeg occupeit be Williame Forbes, bot pertening in heritage  #
to the laird
of Monymusk, becaus the said Williame Forbes had plunderit from #
his servand
sum moneyis with his baggage hors; thairefter mans and          #
fortefeis his
awin hous of Harthill for his awin defens.
   Ye have, that generall livetennand Baillie wes lying in      #
Cromar. The lord
of Balcarras with his hors regiment cam thair with tua          #
regimentis of reid
cottis. Bot for all the thundering out of pulpites to caus the  #
countrie rys
with Baillie, thay lay still and wold not follow him.
   In the meintyme Baillie getis sure advertisement of Hurryis  #
gryte overthrow
at Olderne; and thairfoir, upone Mononday the 19 of May, he     #
liftis
his camp out of Cromar, and with all haist merchis to the wod   #
of Coklaroquhy,
within tuo myllis to Strathbogie. As he is lying thair, Sir     #
Johne Hurry
cums fra Innernes, crossis Spey, gois throw the marques of      #
Montrois watches,
saying, he wes the lord Gordoun's man and fairlie wan away by   #
them to
Frendracht, and thairfra past to Coklaroqhy, quhair Baillie wes #
lying.
   Montrois, lying at Birkinbog, getis haistie advertesment     #
that Baillie wes
cum upone Wedinsday the 21 of May within tuo myllis of          #
Strathbogie. He
thairfoir schortlie drawis wp his army, and that samen nicht    #
cam to Strathbogie,
and in the enemyis sicht began to cast ditches and mak          #
fortificationis
about the yairdis of the Place and Rawis; whiche maid the enemy #
to think
Montrois wes not to depairt schortlie out of that boundis.      #
Quhairin thay
war michtellie deceavit; for how sone the nicht fell mark,      #
Montrois directit
sum horsmen to be still in sicht of the enemy when day licht    #
cam, and how
sone thay spyit his army gone, then with all speid to follow    #
efter him. Montrois,
haveing givin this ordour, upone the samen Wedinsday at nicht   #
he
marchis quyetlie wp the south syd of the river of Spey; and his #
horsmen, when
thay saw day licht, follouit thame scharplie without skaith,    #
and so thay merchit
cloislie altogidder away. Baillie lying in the wod of           #
Coklaroquhy and Hurry
with him seing Montrois cast ditches and fortificationis never  #
luikit of so
suddant a marche. Generall Livetennant Baillie resolves to      #
follow him, and
uppone Thuirsday 22 May liftis from Coklaroquhy, and the lord   #
Crichtoun
being in the reir brynt wp the Rawis of Strathbogie; whair [I   #
will cease for
a whyle. Creightoun burnt Tullish also.
   Upone Wedensday 14 May about 10 hours at evin, ther was sein #
in New
Abirdein a fearfull fyre and lightning comeing in cloudes of    #
fyre as it were
athuart the peoples faces to their great fear. It would be sein #
in ane streitt
whiche they thought had sett the housis on fyre, which made the #
people to run
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to it; then it would appear in ane other streitt, which made    #
the people to run
to it, crying and trembleing. The night wes clear but weitt or  #
thunder, and
it continowed for the space of ane hour; syne at God's pleasure #
it evanished to
the great joy of the people. Ther wes somewhat sein in the Old  #
town, but not
efter such fearful maner. The like of this fyre and lightening  #
was never sein
here, suppose it is uswall in hotter countreis. Some judged the #
same to proceid
from naturall] [^EDITOR'S BRACKETS^] causis; utheris feirit it  #
to [\be ane prodigeous token\] for
Abirdene.
   About this tyme, thair chanceit ane Dundie boit to land at   #
Buky. Scho is
rypit and letteris found direct fra the Estaitis to the erllis  #
of Seafort, Sutherland,
the lairdis of Balnagoun and utheris, desyring them to stand to #
the good
cause, assuring them of help; as indeid Baillie cam.
   Upon Sonday the 18 of May, Mr. Androw Cant and Mr. John Rew  #
(new
cum fra thair flicht to Abirdene) warnit out of thair pulpites, #
as it wes done
heir and [elsewher, all noble men, barrones, gentlemen,         #
frieholders and heretors,
to be on horse and foot in thair best armes; and upon Tuesday   #
nixt to
goe meitt Livetennant Major Baillie quhairever he was, without  #
designation of
any other place, wnder the paine to be punished as dissaffected #
to the good cause.
The people wondered at this foolish charge, being upon so short #
advertisement
and not knowing wher to seik Baillie; quhich made them give no  #
obedience.
And Patrick Lesslie, that samen night about ten hours at evin,  #
rode throw the
Old toun, about 20 horse, to his sone's mariage with            #
Phillorthe's daughter,
which he preferred to that charge, albeit he wes ane arch       #
covenanter.
   About this time, ane servant called [^BLANK IN THE TEXT^]    #
Small, whom Montrose had
sent to the king with letters, wes taken;] [^EDITOR'S           #
BRACKETS^] his letters with him self had to Edinbrughe.
Efter reiding quhairof he is takin and hangit be command of the
Estaites upone the calsey of Edinbrughe. Severe justice aganes  #
ane berar.
For the quhilk Williame Nicoll post wes hangit moir justlie.
   The sessioun be sound of trumpet at the cros of Edinbrughe   #
ordanit to sit
doun there the 3 of June; bot yit no sessioun in respect of     #
thir troubles.
   The pest brokin wp vehementlie both in Edinbrughe and Leith. #
Divers
houssis cloissit wp, many fleing the toune; and thair Committee #
[courtis of kirk
and Parliament to be removed out of Edinbrughe to Stirling,     #
Linlithgow, or
Glasgow. It sat doun in Stirling and came to Saint Johnstoun.
   Ye heard befor, how Harthill had brynt Thombeg, and taken    #
the Farquhars,
whom he took to releive Georg Gordon of Reynnie that Craigiewar
had takin before; wherupon he and the Farquhars were sett to    #
libertie.
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Harthill forsees and mans his house, a strong hold. The         #
Forbesses and Frasers
gathers against him, but did no hurt.
   Upon the 23 of May, the Forbesses and Frasers was said to be #
routed be some
highlanders at the head of Stradone. Thay were goeing a saiffe  #
way to aid
Baillie; but thir highlanders comeing Montrose, [\he\] defeat   #
them, took some
prissoners, and some blood, as was reported.


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