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Majesty’s servants.1 At another time Jacob Gerner accuses
a certain Salomon Castens of having abused the Scottish
soldiers who then were in town, and consequently got
into a row with the military patrol; to which Castens
answers that the whole fault and cause of the riot lay
with an ensign who had refused to listen to the Scottish
captain, and, being full with drink, ran amuck.2
In 1631 occurs a different kind of case. Jacob
Warden, authorised by Colonel Lumsden, demands that
the two bonds of 1000 Thaler which James Simson, a
citizen of Dundee, had given to the children of the late
Rutherford, should now be called in, as they had hitherto
not been paid in specie.
It was a more serious affair when Jacob Ross,
suspected of being a Polish spy, was subjected to a most
rigorous examination before the Riks-Råd (Senate).3 But
it was easy in those days to get implicated in political
intrigues in Sweden; for so much incredibly cruel,
underhand work went on among the rulers of the land and the
aristocracy that the miracle is how any one that raised his
head a little above the multitude could have escaped the
infection.
Very curious is another rather trumped-up case in
1643, when the English Ambassador at the Court of
Sweden prosecuted a ship’s captain of the name of
Hermann Backer for having called the King of England a
Roman Catholic. As witnesses appear Thomas Hutto and
H. Leyel.4
To this list of crimes there must be added the national
besetting sin of the Scots, that of smuggling. Thus we
find inter alia in 1636, on the 22nd of June, a resolution
1 Protokoll. R.A. 2 Ibid., year 1625.
3 Sv. Riks-Rådets Protokol, ioth December 1628.
4 Criminal-Protokoll. R. A.
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