History of the Scottish expedition to Norway in 1612Michell, Thomas
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History of the Scottish expedition to Norway in 1612
Michell, Thomas
Norway -- History -- Scottish Expedition, 1612
That the following commanders and officers were still left in
Sweden:--General Rutherford, a Scot, and his lieutenant Learmonth;
that their force or regiment consisted of eight or nine companies;
Captain Wauchope; Mönnichhofen; General Due; Caspar Matzen; Greig, a
Scotchman, commander of the artillery. That at the siege of Calmar
the aforesaid Greig had been so severely wounded in the shin-bone by
a cannon-ball that twenty pieces of bone were taken out, and even
then they had little hope of his life. That he does not know at all
whether any officers have been sent to levy soldiers abroad.
To the fourth--
That he has no letters.
To the fifth--
That Stuart had given up the letter of safe-conduct to the captain of
the ship, who took him from Calmar to Ryswik(?)[141] to facilitate
his return home. Besides, the lieutenant-governor of Copenhagen had
stated that the aforesaid letter had come into his hands.
To the sixth--
That the common people looked upon Stuart in the light of an
ambassador, and that this annoyed him greatly; but at the Court he
was not regarded in the same light.
To the seventh--
That Stuart was being cajoled by the hope of payment in the following
spring, either in money or in copper.
Further: the said Ramsay did state, by the way and incidentally,
that the Sieur de la Ville had gone away to Danzig on the receipt of
a letter of credit to the amount of seven thousand dollars, payable
to him at that place, but that he had met with nothing but lies and
vain promises; that at the siege of Calmar he (de la Ville?) had been
struck in the side by a ball; and, further, he had said that though
an angel were to come down from heaven to persuade him to set foot in
Sweden, he would certainly refuse to do so.
That all the officers or officials in the employment of the King of
Sweden at the siege of Calmar had been wounded, except Mönnichhofen;
and the reason was that he surpassed the others in prudence, and knew
how to fight from a distance.
After this had been gone through, we dismissed him to his lodging,
and had the lieutenant, Robert Douglas, called, and in exactly
the same manner as above required him to answer to the aforesaid
questions.
He answered:--
That he and the said Ramsay were cousins; that he had a wife and
children in Scotland, and had committed some crime there; that he
had served for six years in Livonia; that he had been on his way to
Lubeck in the ship in which he had been captured; that the same ship
was carrying a cargo of iron and copper, as far as the captain had
given him an opportunity of seeing.
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