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means are no longer what they were. The war is over,
and there is no opportunity left of gaining money.”1
Forbes rapidly obtained all the great offices of State as
well. In 1650 he was made Krigsråd, i.e. Member of
the War Ministry; in 1653, Riksråd, Member of the
Senate; whilst he was ennobled as Baron of Kumo, Lord
of Artsjö, etc. His only son, Jacob, died long before his
own death, which took place at Stettin in Pomerania in
1665. His excellent and pious wife, who, it is related,
found great comfort in spiritual songs and old national
tunes during the troublous times in which her lot had
been cast, followed him in 1668.
A cousin of Arfvid, Col. W. Forbes, also left a short
account of his life,2 from which we see that he left
Scotland, in the month of July 1634, with his elder
brother, Lord Alexander Forbes, “ the chief of the Clan
and the first Lord of the whole of Scotland,” who had
already served in Sweden and commanded two regiments
of Scotch soldiers, 2600 head strong. “We first went
to Stade, in Germany,” Forbes continues, “then to Minden,
and lastly to Osnabruck, where Matthew Forbes was
governor. In 1635 I was .enrolled in Col. Leslie’s
regiment in Bremen. We joined Baner, took Liineburg, and
were present at the Battles of Wittstock and of Leipzig
against an enemy who was four times as strong as
ourselves.” He then describes various other encounters with
the enemy ; lastly, those with the Danes and their ally,
the Imperial General Gallas. In the Battle of Jankow, in
1 In 1640, on the 30th of September, Forbes enters in the Donation
Book which I mentioned before, “ Hafver jagh förährat till de fattige
fempton Daler Kopper mynt,” i.e. I have given to the poor 15
Thaler.
2 Extracts are printed in De la Gardiska Arkivet, vol. ix. pp. 60 fF.
Letters to him, see in the Appendix.
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