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At first fortune seemed to favour him, but in the Battle of
Stångebro he was completely beaten by Charles, who took
advantage of the bad position of the enemy. Sigismund
went back to Poland, he and his son were declared to
have forfeited the right to govern Sweden, and Charles
ascended the throne as Charles IX. (1599).
Among those who adhered to Sigismund as their
lawful king were Andrew Keith and Jacob Naf. The
former was banished the country and went to Poland or
to Scotland.1 On the 14th of May 1599, King Charles
writes to King James of Scotland that he had no doubt
Andrew Keith, “that traitor,” had instigated Sigismund
to all his breaches of faith, and that he hoped his
Majesty of Scotland would not suffer him or “men of
his feather ” to stay in Scotland.2
A still sadder end awaited his countryman, Jacob Naf.
He was properly called Jacob Neafve, Baron of Methie,
in Scotland. The Nevoys or Neways were an ancient
family of Forfar, now extinct in the direct line. Their
property lay in the parish of Methie-Loune. The Barony
of Methie did not belong to them, but they were Barons
of Nevoy. All the Swedish sources give the date of
his arrival in Sweden as 1579; they add that he brought
1 Probably to Poland, to King Sigismund.
2 “ Quum autem dubium non sit, sceleratum ilium nebulonem, Andream
Keith, quemadmodum Reg. Majesem. una cum aliis proditoribus ad ea
omnia stimulaverat, quae Reg. illius Maj. contra fidem datam ac
jura-mentum susceperat, ita et Vestram R. M. in hanc de nobis sententiam
calumniis suis pertraxisse, idcirco Regiam Vm. Mm. mirum in modum
rogamus, ne ejus maledicta justa nostra excusatione quam R. V. M. ex
variis nostris scriptis abunde cognovit, ut praesentes literae ostendunt, apud
se valere sinat, sed sibi ab illo ejusdemque farniæ aliis cavendum ducat
qui Pontificam religionem in pectore fhvent.”
Keith must have died shortly afterwards, though the date of his death
cannot be accurately fixed. In several petitions of Elizabeth Grip, his
wife, she prays for the restitution of his and her property.
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