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defeated, we learn that the foreign soldiers must no doubt
have numbered at the least five hundred and fifty men,
although the Scots who remained alive, and of whom there
are altogether eighteen, will not admit that they were more
than 350 men strong at the utmost.
“On the day the battle took place 134 Scots were
taken prisoners who were straightway the next day killed
and shot by the Bönders with the exception of eighteen,
the Bönders saying to each other that His Royal Majesty
had enough to feed in those same eighteen. Some of
them were, however, wounded, and some had bullets in
their bodies when they arrived here. Of the
above-named eighteen we now send you the three principal ones,
who are a captain of the name of Alexander Ramsay and
his lieutenant Jacob Mongepenny, who has previously
been in Denmark and Sweden, and who on this their
expedition served as interpreter; and a third, called Herrich
Bryssz (Henry Bruce), who according to his own
statement has served as a soldier in Holland, Spain, and
Hungary.1 As regards the remaining fifteen persons some
of them have straightway taken service among good folk
here in the country, some of them who will willingly serve
your R. M. in Jörgen Lunge’s regiment I sent at once to
Elfsborg. What has further occurred in this matter is, as
already stated, all to be ascertained from their own
statements, which are written down. As to what knowledge
can be obtained from the letters that were found on them,
we can say nothing this time, for when the Scots were
taken prisoners, the Bönders took all the letters to
themselves, from which we now have our certain knowledge (?).
What can be ascertained from them \i.e. letters], so soon
as we receive them, shall be straightway sent to the
Chancellor, and if we on our part can serve the Chancellor
1 No mention is made of James Scott, who was one of the prisoners.
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