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his appointment on 8th January 1608, on similar terms;1
Jacob Spens is made colonel of all the English and
Scottish troops, on condition that he bring across 1000
foot and 500 horse-soldiers by the beginning of spring
1609.
Great is the disappointment of the king when all these
promises proved futile. “ If I had known,” he writes
on the 28th of June 1608, “ that Dominus Jacobus Spentz
was not able to fulfil his promise and levy those troops,
as he and William Stuart and several others had said
they would, I should have sent an ambassador long ago.”1 2
In the meantime he writes to the King of England on
this subject, and having thus prepared him, sends Jacob
Spens to him as a special messenger on the 17th of
December. In his company travelled Samuel Cobron,
Joannes Wacop, Hugo Cochrane, Georgius Duglasius,
Daniel Rogerus, Robertus Kinnaird, Gulielmus Horne,
and Patricius Ruthven—Scottish officers all bent on the
same errand. Merchants were pressed into advancing a
loan of 4500 Thaler, for which they were to receive as
security the produce of certain copper and iron-mines.
In the following year the efforts for recruiting were
continued. The present number of Scots in Sweden
was so exceedingly small that it had to be supplemented.
Colonel Rutherford’s adjutant, Robert Sim, is selected for
this purpose. On the 1st of February he received power
to levy 200. About three weeks later—on the 26th
of the month—William Stuart is despatched to Scotland to
raise five hundred horsemen ; but when he does not arrive
with them by September the 6th the king countermands
1 At the same time letters were sent to the Earl of Orkney, who,
together with the Duke of Lennox, had recommended William Stuart,
his brother.
2 Latin Letters, 1606-25. Riks A.
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