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have come down to us. One is that of Lieut.-Colonel
Alexander Irving of Tulloch, who, on the 19th of October
1643, petitioned the Senate to have his son ennobled, on
the strength of a letter from the M Vice-Comes ” of
Aberdung in Scotland. The Senate declared very
properly that they were quite willing to acknowledge
Irving’s own claim, as he had deserved well of the
Crown of Sweden, but for his son other proofs of noble
descent would be required, either from the king or from
the highest parliament of Scotland.1 Another case is that
of Captain Thet, who tried to prove his noble descent
from the Tait mentioned above in Birger Jarl’s time.
The Rikråd characterised the document as somewhat
44 abstruse.”1 2
Of new Scottish levies, after those of 1636-38,
which were raised by Francis Ruthven,3 Herbert
Glad-steen,4 Mathew Forbes, and Captain Blair,5 little or nothing
is heard for a number of years, and this for the very good
reason that Scotland in her times of trouble needed all her
young warriors herself.6 The Swedish Riks-Råd seems
1 Sv. Riksrådets-Protok., 1643, p. 309. Son Alexander was not
worth his father’s trouble. Having married the widow of Governor
Kinimund, his wife obtained a separation on account of his misconduct,
and he was afterwards killed in a duel.
2 1642. See Riksrådets-Protok.y ii. 308.
3 See Ruthven’s letter to A. Oxenstierna, 1 ith September, 1636:
■“Francis Ruthven hat . . . eine Schwadron zu Wege gebracht,” i.e.
has managed to get together a squadron of horsemen.
4 See Riks-A. Registr.
5 Ibid., and Oxenstiernas Skr. och Brefv., ix. 914.
6 It appears from a letter in the Oxenstierna Collection that Capt. J. B.
Munro was also engaged in raising troops in Scotland in the spring of
1637. He writes hopefully that the Duke of Argyll and the Marquis of
Huntly had both promised their assistance—“ si modo nervi,” he adds
significantly. William Dick in Edinburgh is his agent. Riks-A.
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