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as he calls the General—since he had only once the
pleasure of meeting him, “eight years ago when the army
marched into the Palatinate.”
In the letter from Nlirnberg, dated 3rd June, Forbes
promises to assist the nephew of the General in his
military career. He also intercedes for a Captain
G. Wardlaw at Leipzig, “ whose wife is a Forbes,” and
whose pay is in arrear; and very urgently for that poor
widow Isabella Forbes, who has lost her husband some
years ago and has moreover to bring up the children of a
Captain Pringle, “who formerly was in my regiment.”
Their mother had been struck by a cannon-ball before
Brieg. Field-marshal Torstensohn allowed Mrs Forbes
some little money, but now she has not received any for
six or eight weeks. “It would be a work of mercy
indeed if the General would help.”
A few days later comes this account of the writer’s
wound: “ I have had my loin cut open again and pierce
the bone,” they also “hacked a piece off” (abgehauen) “in
order to arrive at true seat of the evil ” (damit man an
den ersten grund gelangen kann).
In a letter of the 30th of the month of June, he again
pleads for “ Isobell.”
On the 28th of July he thanks the General most
sincerely for the transmission of a letter from his brother.
That he opened it needs no excuse, “ For I treat or
correspond with nobody on secret matters, such as all
honest men could not read.” In conclusion he repeats his
intercession for Mrs Forbes and Captain Abr. Garioch,
whose pay has not been forthcoming.
After this letter there is an interval of three years.
The next communication is dated Stade, the 27th of
August, 1652, and deals with political matters—the death
of the King of Denmark, the attitude of France where
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