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to be stopped immediately, the ships seized, their sails
taken from the yards, and the men on board set at liberty.
The remainder of the companies were not to travel home
in groups of more than two, to obviate the possibility of
their committing any acts of violence on the road.
Curiously enough, no mention is made of disarming them.
The natural conclusion that they had no arms is
strengthened by an order given to General Moenighofen
to provide arms and ammunition for the whole corps.
All these apparently vigorous measures came too late.
A small body of Scottish recruits, led by Alexander
Ramsay, Sinclair, and others, had escaped the vigilance of
the authorities and embarked for Sweden at Caithness.
What happened to them is best described in the words
of the Danish “ Stadthalter ” (Governor) of Norway,
Kruse, and in the reports of Sir R. Anstruther to the
Scottish king. On the 17th of September 1612 Kruse
announced to the Danish Government the arrival of two
ships off the coast of Romsdal, between the 19th and
the 20th of August, and the destruction of the force at
the Pass of Kringelen on the 26th. “We cannot omit
to communicate to the Chancellor somewhat at length,”
he says, “ on account of the nature of the matter, how on
or about the 19th of August two Scottish ships arrived
off Romsdalen in the province of Bergenhuus with a
number of soldiers. What part those ship» came from
and by whom they were fitted out, as also who it was
that procured them, is to be ascertained from their own
report and deposition here annexed. And straightway
the next day after their arrival they betook themselves
inland and proceeded along the country-road, over a field
called Maerotoppen, whereupon they entered the valley
of Gudbrandsdal, which is to the southward of this
mountain-range and in the province of Aggershuus, and
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