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Towards the end of the XVIIth century Captain Peter
Zinckler (Sinclair) sends a petition to the Crown referring
to his two “hemmans” bestowed upon him for his
44 faithful services.” He had been in the Polish war of
1655, had suffered much distress, and had been wounded
in the engagements with the enemy. When he returned
from his campaigns he found that the peasants of the
district in which his property lay had suffered likewise
from bad harvests, fire, and such like, so that they had
hardly been able to pay the fourth part of the rent, which
always went to the Crown,1 when it had been exacted of
them. Petitioner now asks that at least this fourth part
might be returned to him, so that he may have at least
some profit for his u wearied, lacerated, and torn body.”1 2 * *
Frequently, however, these proofs of royal favour were
really of great value. Ramsay was given two large estates
in Mecklenburg. Ruthven received estates in Sweden as
well as in Russia, the rents of a whole principality, the
receipts of iron-works in Småland for four years, and other
gifts; Irving was granted the rents of many farms in
Wermland and elsewhere ; Col. Gordon’s (of Clunie)
estate of Hammerss “ was sold for ten thousand Thaler to
Hans Maclier in 1652.” Besides these gifts in land there
were the pensions, Alexander Leslie drawing for instance
1200 Thaler, his son 800 as long as he-lived, Ruthven
1200 Thaler, King 1200, David Leslie 1000, Col. Lumsden
1000 for life, Col. Gun 1000 Thaler until the end of the
queen’s minority.8 This liberality was extended to
1 About this fourth and other conditions these donations were subject to,
see Supplement.
2 Kammer-Ark.: *« Hvarmedh jagt kunne niuta någon wederkännelse
for min wedermöda, sargkade och söndersliten kropp.”
8 Registr., 20th April, 1638. Riks-A.
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