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The said Ramsay, Captain Bruce, James Monipenny, whom
they used as an interpreter, and James Scott were sent to
Denmark.
“ After their coming hither a Council of War was held
to examine them and afterwards to give judgment. After
I had spoken with them and found that their journey was
enterprised rashly, and rather simple than well advised, for
not one of them had any kind of commission or warrant to
show, neither from the late King Charles, neither from
Gustavus, neither from Col. Ramsay.”
The Latin deposition of Alex. Ramsay is to the
following effect: he had been appointed Lieut.-Colonel by
Andrew Ramsay, who had declared that he held the office
of Colonel by a letter from King Charles IX.; he had told
him the levies were carried on with the knowledge and
approval of the King of Great Britain ; that an agreement
had been made between himself and others, George
Sinclair and G. Hay, each commanding a regiment. He
had embarked at Dundee, but the two others at Caithness.
The Scottish Privy Council was unacquainted with the
matter, etc., etc.
Good Sir Robert Anstruther, who rather wanted the
prisoners to be treated leniently, had them privily examined
again, and then sent with their depositions to King James,
“ hoping,” as he wrote, u it shall be far better for them
to come into the hands of Your R. M. who ever has used
grace and clemency unto those that offend of simplicity,
not of wilfulness.”
In this hope he was not mistaken; the captive officers
were dismissed by King James, who refused to u act as
jailer to the King of Denmark.”
As to Andrew Ramsay, he failed to obey the summons of
the Scottish Privy Council, and was denounced a rebel after
the due three u blasts of the horn.” He was afterwards
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