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<P>A FIGHT AT Dunin in Scotland, between the Scots women, and the Presbyterian Kirkmen:</P>
<P>AND The pittifull Defeat the VVomen gave the Synod-men.</P>
<P>VVith the particulars thereof.</P>
<P>And their triumph with Clubs and Bagge-Pipes.</P>
<P>And the Votes made in Coun&s;ell un|der protection of the Lord Friedland.</P>
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<P><ADD>June .22.</ADD> Edenburgh, Anno. Dom. MDCLII.</P>
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<HEAD>A Fight at Dunin in Scotland, between the Scotch women, and the Presbyterian Kirk-men.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Mu&s;t acquaint you with a &s;ad &s;tory, of a fearfull conflict betwixt the Scotch women and the Presbyters, in the Town of Dunin, in the County of Pearth, up|on the ninth of this in&s;tant, thus:</P>
<P>Vpon the eighth our Scotch women Dragooners of the Province (being big with child of a &s;trong fancy, that their
<PB N="2" REF="3">inheritance was invaded by &s;ome of their Bre|thren, formerly depo&s;ed for their di&s;like of that Sinodicall Government (re&s;olved to bee brought to bed at this little Hamlet, where af|ter a long congratulatory pro&s;opopia of the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e of their deformed reformation, ordered tho&s;e Preachers who had re-inve&s;ted them&s;elves, both with the Church and Li|vings (by vertue of a Call from their Pari&s;hio|ners) to be cited to appeare on the morrow at ten houres in the fore-noon, under paine of that fearefull Bull of Excommunication, in o|bedience whereof the Inditement is pre&s;ented by the Officer to the Wives, in their Husbands ab&s;ence, who promi&s;ed to be with them on the morrow, and to be as a&s;&s;i&s;ting as po&s;&s;ible they could, for curing their mallady; that night the Women were mo&s;t carefull, in draw|ing together their Forces, and having met a|bout four in the morning, they went to a wood hard by, and each of them provided a &s;trong Club (they being about one hundred and twenty in number) with a loud Bag-pipe, af|ter foure miles march, furpri&s;ed the Towne, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them&s;elves of the Church-yard,
<PB N="3" REF="3">one of tho&s;e flea-bitten Synod is &s;ent to tho&s;e Amazons, to &s;ee if the Brethren might meet in the Church, as had formerly been appoin|ted; which being denied, he threatens them with Bell, Booke, and Candle, and they ba&s;te him for his paines, detaine him Pri&s;oner, di|&s;patches &s;ixty of their number to &s;urpri&s;e the remainder in the Market-place, the order was in&s;tantly executed with &s;o much life, that all their Body was broken, and routed in their &s;everall Parties, that they lo&s;t all their Baggage, and twelve of their be&s;t Hor&s;es in the Conflict, one Rollock getting out of the throng with lo&s;&s;e of Hor&s;e, Hat, and Cloak, &s;aved him&s;elfe in the end of a Land, a &s;econd &s;orely affright|ed, and brui&s;ed with &s;troakes, after a miles run|ning, taking all the Creatures of the field for his enemies, with a &s;uper&s;titiou&s;ly bended knee, did beg quarter of a Souldier, who un|der&s;tanding nothing of the matter de&s;ired to know his meaning; the hone&s;t Preacher (&s;ur|pri&s;ed with the feare of his former danger) without reply fell to the ground; in the meane time, tho&s;e victorious Gallants having laid hold on the Synods Clerke for a Preacher, did
<PB N="4" REF="4">beat him to &s;ome tune, he for&s;wearing his Office, upon a&s;&s;urance never to ap|peare in their Conclave was relea&s;ed, Ma&s;ter Haliburtonne not intending to be a Martyr, de&s;ired a Parly, for which he is reputed to have been of the Party, the re&s;t of them being well routed, &s;ome twelve or thirteen of them rallied again, and about foure miles from the place, at a Village called Torgane, where being under the protection of the Lord Fred|land, they voted:</P>
<P N="1">1 That never any Provinciall A&s;&s;em|bly, &s;hould &s;it at the fore-named Dunine, but that the &s;ame &s;hould be accur&s;ed, and that every ninth of June &s;hould be a fea&s;ti|vall day for their great deliverance.</P>
<P N="2">2 That contrary to the definition of the Presbyterian Kirke of this Land, in the yeare, one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred thir|ty
<PB N="5" REF="4">eight, and one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred thirty nine, when godly women were called up, for &s;toning the Bi&s;hops.</P>
<P N="3">3 That ever hereafter the whole Sex &s;hall be e&s;teemed wicked, and for a Pen|nance be condemned to weare (if not the Breeches) at lea&s;t Cal&s;ones as a &s;igne of their mi&s;carriage.</P>
<P>Thus have you the briefe &s;tory of this &s;ad day, from</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dalkeith, <DATE>June 12. 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>your Honours mo&s;t humble and ever obliged Servant, A. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<FIGDESC>depiction of the Scotch women and Presbyterian kirkmen at Dunin</FIGDESC>
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