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entered the Swedish service in 1695 and rose from the
ranks to be Lieut.-Colonel and Knight of the Order of the
Sword. He was wounded no less than four or five times
during the Northern War, the last time at Poltawa. There he
was treated with special severity because he had purposely
misled a Russian General by his answers when interrogated
about the Swedish army, and had by the delay enabled part
of the Swedish troops, including the baggage, to escape.1
In 1722 he returned from his Siberian prison, and died
in 1767 at the ripe old age of eighty-six. Like his
father,2 he was a man of violent temper. Three years
after his return from Siberia he is sentenced to a fortnight’s
imprisonment and a penalty of 50 Thaler for having caused
a private soldier of the name of Nordberg to be whipped
almost to death.3
Considering the period now in question independently
of biographical detail, we must, in conclusion, draw the
reader’s attention to two interesting characteristics. The
first is the revival on a small scale of Scottish immigration
during the time of the Pretender’s rising at home, and the
second the completed amalgamation of the Scottish element
with the Swedish people, especially in its nobility.
Sweden’s policy during the last years of Charles XII.
decidedly favoured the rising of the Stuarts. The King’s
ministers even thought of invading Scotland and attacking
from there King George of England, who was now his
1 See “ Karolinska Officerares Tjänsteförteckningar ” in Historiska
Handlingar, xviii. 3, p. 48 f.
2 In 1681 we find him (William) accused by the Directors of the
tobacco-manufactory at Upsala of stealing and secretly selling tobacco
through the wife of the sexton. When the myrmidons of the law came
to arrest him, he ran his sword through the body of one of them, took
horse and pistols from him, and galloped off (Upsala Lands-Arkivet.).
3 See Westin, Sami. Biogr., Upsala Library. The collection also
contains two letters of Nisbeth from Wologda.
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