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Was there ever a more naive and a more curious
petition penned ? We are glad to say the king pardoned
them, though not without adding words of fatherly
rebuke.1
It is true the Scots always remained touchy. Another
proof of this is afforded us in a more serious case of
mutiny which occurred in 1628. About this the king
writes from Dirschau on the 16th of July to the General
commanding in Livland :—
“We have heard that the Scots in Livland, when on the
march from Dunaborg, laid down their arms all of them
and caused a serious mutiny at the time when they
should have been led against the enemy; and this for the
only reason that the overseer1 2 whom you caused to be
shot since, ordered one of their nation and regiment to
be hung. As we have not received any more information
about the matter, which seems grave enough to us, we
request you to let us know as speedily as possible the true
reasons which led to the mutiny of these Scots, and
wherefore the overseer was shot; so that we may give our
orders preventing the same thing from occurring again.”3
In the mean time the recruiting and completing the
number of men in the regiment went languidly on. King
James of England, after enlarging eloquently on the great
crime of Andrew Ramsay, especially as it was directed
against the u sacred person of our brother, the King of
Denmark,” ends by pardoning the perpetrator at the
intercession of the Swedes, and permits Swedish levies
1 Riks A. Registr. Letters dated 15th January 1616 and 8th
February.
2 The word used in the original is Gewaldiger, i.e. one who has the
Gewalt (power). It corresponds, perhaps, to the German Profoss,
or police-constable.
8 Riks A. Registr., 1628, p. 446.
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