In the year 1611, on the nineteenth day of the month of December, His Royal Majesty of Denmark, Norway, etc., our most gracious Lord, did most graciously enjoin upon us the undersigned to interrogate upon the following heads, as set forth by His Royal Majesty's own hand, a certain Scot, Andrew Ramsay, who, while crossing by sea from Sweden to Lubeck with two lieutenants and two servants, had been, together with the vessel, captured on the voyage and brought into Copenhagen, and had afterwards, accompanied by one lieutenant, made his way to this place; and, further, to submit each of them to separate examination:-- 1. Where did these two first become intimate? At whose house and at whose hands did they receive entertainment? 2. How he obtained a letter of safe-conduct or a permission to leave the country. 3. How many foreign officers are still in Sweden, and who of them are engaged in raising troops abroad. 4. From whom among their countrymen and to whom they are conveying letters. For there is no doubt that Stuart as well as others have given letters to their friends. 5. What Stuart did with the letter of safe-conduct which he received from us at Calmar. 6. Let him tell the reason why Stuart is called by all the Swedes ambassador of the King of Great Britain. 7. What conditions they have offered to Stuart with a view to freeing themselves from their debt to him. The lieutenant to be asked especially how he came to leave his captain, and under what commander (general?) he has served. And since it is clearer than noonday that men like these, who have long served in Sweden, would by no means be allowed to leave the country without a special passport, how he managed to get away from thence. Immediately after this most gracious mandate had been received, we assigned to the said Ramsay the private chamber of Otto, the governor of the castle, as the place where he should present himself, and there we examined him separately, and heard him make openly the following statements:-- In answer to the first question-- That the lieutenant, his companion here, was a relative of his. That he had fallen in with him by chance at Stockholm in the country-house of Duke John--a house well known to every one in that place--on his return with his captain, Learmonth, also a Scot, from Livonia, where he had served for five years. That he, Ramsay, had obtained leave to go (pardon?) from Duke Gustavus for the said lieutenant. To the second-- That he had had no letter of safe-conduct either from the King or from Dukes Gustavus and John, but only one from the lieutenant-governor of Stockholm, for the use of himself, his two lieutenants, and his two servants, which letter he had given up and left behind him at Waxholm[140] before they embarked. To the third--