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and as he moreover, on his own responsibility, entered
into diplomatic relations with the German Princes of the
Pfalz and Hessen, matters soon reached a point. The
Riks-Råd at home sent him peremptory orders to obey Banér or
return to Sweden.1 “ I have,” Banér writes, u left General
King his choice, to set out for Sweden or to continue in
his place; but as I suppose he will choose the first, which,
I think, would be the best for certain considerations (the
other officers not obeying his orders in the very least, and
much confusion and dangerous complications arising
from it), I have eventually chosen another Colonel in his
place.” 2 “ If men are thus minded,” the writer continues,
“ it is not to be wondered at that everything is left on
our shoulders.” For the moment, however, matters were
smoothed over, but in 1639 King definitely obtained his
leave and left the Swedish army. His wife stayed behind,
rather grieved that the Westphalian authorities refused
to pay for his servants and horses any longer. Banér
refers to this in another letter with rather spiteful irony.
“ I am very sorry for Mrs King,” he says, “ but I have
ordered nothing in the matter. But because Herr King
dismissed himself, so to speak, I do not see with what right he
can demand the maintenance of his Court from a state
which has without that very heavy burdens to bear.”3
Add to this the news from Scotland, where the clouds
of Civil War were gathering fast, and the call of the
mother-country to those of her children that served in
foreign countries, and no further explanation will be
needed of the wholesale exodus of Scottish officers. In
fact this period may justly be called that of discharge and
donation.
1 Riks-Rad. Protokoll, vii. 345.
2 Oxenstierna’s B. 0. Skr. Banérs Breft p. 617.
8 Banérs Bref till Oxenstierna, p. 650.
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