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Colonel J. Duwall had brought across, few remained alive.
Leslie now dates his letters from Stralsund, where he had
been appointed Governor. They are written in a rather
despondent tone: the citizens refuse to take Swedish
copper as payment; officers and men clamour for their
pay. He and Duwall have exerted themselves to the
utmost, but what next? (29th May, 1629). He fears his
men will desert,1 as the soldiers from the Imperial army
do, who come to the town where nobody wants them.
His own salary as Governor is ridiculously low. u Since I
see,” he writes in a moment of irritation, u that I am cut
short and that my services are counted for naught, I beg of
Your Excellency to give me leave to go. Let a man be
appointed here who has a better political head than I
have.” It was a year of trouble. The difficulties
between the military commander and the civil authorities
of the town increased. All plans of attacking Rligen must
be set aside because of the insufficient number of troops
and the unwillingness of the magistrates to furnish new
recruits to fill up the ranks. A convoy is taken by the
enemy, who swarm about the country in strong numbers.
The plague is not diminishing, “so that the soldiers
on the ships off Wismar cannot be relieved for fear
of carrying the infection there.” “ I have attempted in
vain,” he writes on the 16th and 20th of August, “ to
persuade the magistrates to let me have the necessary
timber to build barracks on the ramparts of the town,
for those of my soldiers that are still well; on the
contrary, they have provided some of Du wall’s new
companies as well as the Swedes with such wretched
quarters that of necessity the plague must get in amongst
1 “Some of the Scots," General Bandissin writes in 1630, ran away
from Braunsberg to Danzig, where they are given five ducats “ auff die
Hand ” (as a bounty).
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