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year before his death, at the age of eighty-four, he
married again.1 He died in 1652, and lies buried in
Spånger Church near Stockholm, where his tombstone
bears a German inscription. One of the church bells
also has the inscription : “ Jacobus å Struan Robertsone,
Scotus.”
His son Adolf inherited the estate of Kustenwiss in
Cur-land, which had been bestowed on his father by the King of
Sweden in 1626. His fate was a terrible one. Doomed
to death for having murdered his wife when in childbed
(“ mense Martio 1656 ”), he was imprisoned at Dorpat, but
his execution was delayed in consequence of the Russian
invasion. He died as a prisoner under u Muscovite rule ”
in 1658. His children, three sons and two daughters,
were all sent to Riga, where their grandmother on the
mother’s side took care of them. The estate reverted to
the Crown.2
It sounds like a cruel parody when we read that
Robertson’s motto was u Virtutis gloria merces.”
Another physician to the king was Samuel Scragge,
though his Scottish origin is but poorly attested. His
father was chaplain to Gabriel Oxenstierna, and afterwards
Dean of Hedemora. Samuel studied at Upsala, travelled
on the Continent, took his medical degree at Franeker in
Holland (1684), and followed the Swedish ambassador to
Russia in 1699. On the journey he discovered a medicinal
spring in Norrland near Gideo Backa. When the war
broke out against Russia, Scragge accompanied Charles XII.
1 See above.
2 Anrep, in his Swedish Genealogy (Svensk. Ad. Attar Taflor),
says of him that once a King of Scotland, pursued by his enemies, came
to a desert island, where there were many wild goats. He promised a
reward to him that would first kill a he-goat, for he was hungry. This
the ancestor of the Scragges is said to have done. He received the name
■of Scragge (He-goat), and an estate called Crag (!).
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