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(1907) [MARC] Author: Thomas Alfred Fischer
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of September (1652), and his own marriage on the day
after.1

Another Forbes, Peter, writes from Denmark, and yet
another, Johann, from Leipzig. “ When I came with my
company to Niirnburg two years ago,” the latter relates,
u steps were taken to get cloth for the soldiers’ uniforms,
and General Wrangel granted each company 100 R.
Thaler when it was found that there was no money to
get the cloth made into uniforms. I myself got an
advance of 75 Thaler from my merchant there for
trimmings, etc., so that the uniforms might be finished to
the men’s satisfaction. Afterwards we were removed to
Minden, and now the sum borrowed by me has been taken
ofifmy pay; would the General be so kind, etc., etc.” (1649).

In another much later letter the writer tells of the
beheading of the “Marquis of Argyle ”; he also sends
newspapers reporting on the progress of the
peace-deliberations at Niirnberg. His wife also adds her kind
love to Lady Forbes.

From a letter of Captain John Ross at Berlin, dated
23rd March 1653, we learn that there was a rumour
then current that Sweden was collecting a considerable
force in order to send it to the assistance of the “ young
King of Scotland ” against the English. Ross adds that
he would willingly levy soldiers and win officers for that
purpose among those that had lately been discharged.

Count Robert Douglas, another of General Arfvid
Forbes’s correspondents, assiduously sends his
congratulations every New Year. Now and then he furnishes him
with news from the seat of war. In his New Year’s

1 Of Ernestus Forbes there exists a “ Lessus (Dirge) filialis
quintu-plex in obitum præmaturum viri generosi nobilissimi et maxime strenta
Domini Mathias Forbes, præfecti militiæ parentis maxime
desider-andi,” printed at Riga, 1651.

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