Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/I/i/481
TitleNewport, proceedings at a Council of War
Date23 Jul 1678
DescriptionLieutenant-Colonel Sunderland, President, Major Windram, Major Carr, Major Hastings, Captain Howsden, Captain Lee, Captain FitzJames, Captain Askin, Captain Norshrott, Captain Scroope, Captain Brewer, Captain Shelly, Captain Howard, James Ponte, a sergeant under Colonel Legge, convicted of speaking mutinous words, was condemned to sit one hour upon a wooden horse with two muskets tied to each leg, afterwards to be sent back to prison until a fit opportunity happen to transport him beyond the seas, two privates in the same regiment were sentenced to be shot for like offences, and another in Sir John Fenwick's regiment to ride the wooden horse three several days, one hour in each day
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