. about 80 hors, cam to the boimdis of Taartie perteii-iug to doctor Dwn in Abirdene, wliiche thay war alfo plundering : bot thaywar fchamefuUie dung bak, thair armes tane fra thame, and routit pitifullie,except the capitane, who wes alio thair, callit Forbes alio, and his brother thelivetennand, whofe armes thay tiik not. And fo thir foldioiuis returnit intwais, in threis, in fouris, and not in ane body, flianifully bak agane to Abir-dene, with their capitane, and livetennand, and officiares, who wes alfo Ipairitand not diiarmed. Qu
. about 80 hors, cam to the boimdis of Taartie perteii-iug to doctor Dwn in Abirdene, wliiche thay war alfo plundering : bot thaywar fchamefuUie dung bak, thair armes tane fra thame, and routit pitifullie,except the capitane, who wes alio thair, callit Forbes alio, and his brother thelivetennand, whofe armes thay tiik not. And fo thir foldioiuis returnit intwais, in threis, in fouris, and not in ane body, flianifully bak agane to Abir-dene, with their capitane, and livetennand, and officiares, who wes alfo Ipairitand not diiarmed. Quhairat oiu* Committee of Abirdene and the erll ]\Iar-fchall quhen they hard of it wes heichlie offendit, and bred fuin feir to thebrughe of Abirdene, as ye have heirefter. Ye fie befoir anent the Excife. The famen Mes prodaimit at the cros ofAbirdene upone the 24 of Februar, to the gryt gieif of both brughe and land. The toun of Abirdene begins to think that this perturbatioun maid atTaartie wes upone fum ground, and that the Gordonis wold grow to ane held ;. 1644. IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND. and thairfoir, upone Tliuiilday the lafl of Februai- began to watche tliairtoun, clois thair portis, and to mak wp thair catbandis upon all adventurisfor thair owne fecuritie ; hot tliis did littil good, as ye may lie. Aluaies thaj^dreill daylie in the lynkis, about fexlcoir men ; and the covenanteiis begins tohyd thair goodis. Upone the firll of ]\Larehe, the erll Marfchall returnis from Edinbrughe bakto Abirdeue, and upone the morne being Setterday he cumis over to the Oldtoun, conferris with the lord Gordoun, who convoyit the erll to the brig ofDone being going to Iimerugie. Bot befoir he cam out of Abirdene, thaircam about tua hundreth and fyftie foldiouris, that Iamen nicht he cam toAbirdene, on foot and hors, without ony armes, becaus thay war informittliat the Gordouns wes fet to plunder thame be the way. Aluayes the erll di-rectis tliame to marche to Dunnotter the lamen Setterday
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