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retained as good and lawful prizes. This declaration is
given and duly witnessed by the two masters of the said
ships and two other captains of the Gothenburg vessels on
the 26th of August 1650 at “Gothenburg.” In the
second letter King Charles recommends the bearer Captain
Frederick Cooke, referring at the same time to a former
Royal Messenger sent to Sweden “for some affaires.”
The third letter announces to Maclier, who in the
meantime has become Sir John Maclier, Bart., that James,
Viscount of Newbury, has received 150 cases of Pistols at
8 Dollars a pair, and 50 Carabines at 3 Riks-Dollars a
piece, and that the King owns himself to be indebted
to the sum of 1350 Riks-Dollars, which shall be paid
unto the said Sir John or his “assignes” “so soone
as it shall please God to enable us” (!). In the
fourth and last Royal letter the King desires Maclier
to hand the remaining arms and ammunition to
Major-General Middleton, “he being the person to whose
conduct we have entrusted the managing of the martial
affairs with reference to our Kingdom of Scotland and for
the freeing of our good subjects there from the dishonour
of slavery they are at present compelled to submit to.”
Again in 1654, David Wemeys, merchant-burgess of
Dundee, is sent to Gothenburg. He has in the meantime
examined Maclier’s accounts and found the sum due to
him since 1650, “with an interest of 8 pro cento,” to
amount to 16,030 rixdollars, or between four and five
thousand pounds. “ For this sum,” he continues in his
statement, “ His Gracious Majesty and Estates of Parliament
could not give at present due contentment to the said
Sir John Maclier, as they willingly would have done, in case
that many inconveniences had not happened to the country;
wherefore His Gracious Majesty and Estates of Parliament
authorized me to present the said Sir John an act of
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