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Gardie, extraordinary efforts were made. Already early
in 1607 letters of recommendation to the Marquis of
Huntle (sic) were issued to Robert Kinnart, who was by
his permission to raise a force of two hundred
horse-soldiers,1 for which purpose he is to receive the sum of
3630 Thaler. A few days later (January 26th) the king
writes to Jacobus Spens (Spentz)2 in Scotland that he
hopes he and his levied Scots will be in Sweden in
eight or ten vessels at the beginning of spring. But
when no Spens appeared by the end of May another
letter is despatched intimating the number of troops
required—sixteen hundred foot and six hundred horse.
Jacob Wallace, a Scotch merchant, is to defray the
expense. Other similar letters are written to Thomas
Karr (July 17th) and to William Stewart (November 17th).
In most of these cases the offer to raise a body of
legionaries was made by the officers, the king only
accepting their offer and adding not unfrequently that
the levies must be raised at their own expense, “ there
being no money in the treasury.” But he could appoint
them Colonels or Captains of the soldiers they were to
bring over to the assistance of Sweden, and this he did
in the so-called u Litteræ Stipend».” Kinnaird, for
instance, is appointed captain, on condition that he raise
at his own expense (“ suis sumptibus ”) three hundred
foot-soldiers (18th of November); William Stewart receives
1 Latin Letters of Charles IX. in Riks A.
2 James Spens is called Baron of " Wolmerstoun 99 ; he was the son
of David Spens of Wormiston, who captured the Regent Lennox at
Stirling in 1571. His life was strange and adventurous. After having
been Provost of Crail in Fifeshire, and after having tried to civilise the
Lewes, he entered the service of Charles IX. of Sweden, but was
recalled by King James. In 1612 he was sent to Gustavus Adolphus to
promote the peace between Denmark and Sweden. In this he was
unsuccessful.
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