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Complaint Made by James Fea and His Wife

"...Marines and sailors (came) violently rushing into ...the house of Sound with Arms Swords and Pistolls and breaking open the lockfast places in said house and entering ....Janet Buchanan her Bed Chamber & Compelling her to rise without allowing her any time other than to put on a loose Gown and Smock Petticoat and dragging her out of the house and Stopt her from going away and placed her before the Entry in a Chair guarded by a number of their Crew and shott at by one of them with a musket and had a naked Cutlass or sword placed at her Breast by another (and she) was forcibly kept there till she saw the Effects & furniture in the house either robbed plundered or carryed away or burnt or destroyed, And by her being so dragged and used (she) disocate(d) her Ancle and suffered a Contusion to the prejudice of her health ever since."

Extract - From Orkney Feuds and the '45, R P Fereday, page 91