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his usual bitterness, he writes to the Riks-Råd that his
pay was still due for several years, that he had served
twenty-five years and not twenty, as stated in his
passport, and that the word “ eques auratus ” should have
been omitted, as he had never seen any profits accruing
from it. Thereupon it was resolved to let him have
for his travelling expenses one thousand Thaler, and
later in Hamburg another thousand, this “allena (only)
par courtoisie.”1
Besides Leslie, Ruthven, King, and Sir James Lumsden,1 2
the following officers went back to Scotland: Col.
Lindsay, who received his discharge together with a gift
of three hundred Thaler in 1639; Lieut.-Col. King in
1640; in the same year Major Guthrie, Col. R. Clerck,
Francis Tinsdale, Hugh Peter, David Leslie, George
Munroe, and the Captains David Stuart, Grier, James
Turner, W. Mure; in 1642, among others, Col. Robert
Douglas, Lieut.-Col. W. Barclay, Jacob Douglas, and
Major Alex. Bell. All of these were given a suitable
sum as a viaticum. No wonder that Leslie on his arrival
in Newcastle met no fewer than twenty-six of his former
companions-in-arms in the Swedish wars. Lumsden’s
letters to Axell Oxenstierna make it plain that the home
authorities desired the return of Scottish officers. He
writes in February 1639: “I have further to let Your
Excellency know that I have received from the Scottish
Estates, the authority placed by God and Nature over me,
a peremptory call home, which I cannot disobey as a
cavalier who loves his honour. I therefore request you
to let me have a pass and leave to return to my country ;
1 Riks R. Protokoll, viii., 529.
2 He was Governor of Osnabriick, and one of the famous three brothers
Lumsden, about whom Munroe, in his Expedition (ii., 33), goes into
such ecstasies.
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