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letter of 1652 he mentions two small “pieces of artillery”
(“Stikke”) left with Forbes. Apparently the latter
had expressed a wish to possess them, for Douglas
continues : “I have not hitherto alluded to them, because I
have been busy with official matters, and I knew that
they were well kept where they are. Since these pieces
have been given to me by His Excellency, the General
Torstensohn of pious memory after the battle of Jankow,1
and since I had them removed so far with great expense,
I mean to keep them as a memorial and to adorn my
house with them, and I am minded to buy more of the
same kind, if I can lay hold of them.”
What astonishes us most in these letters is the variety
of matters which they bring before the General. Whilst
Hugo Hamilton gives a description of the Coronation of
the Queen, and asks his friend to have an eye on a
certain mistrusted lawyer of his in Stettin, Colonel
Drummond, stationed on the island of Fehmarn, begs to
be assisted in the recovery of his belongings at the house
of a certain Litzmann in Stralsund. Whilst Alexander
Erskine, a great statesman of Gustavus Adolphus, enlarges
in 1648 on the chance of peace and on the enormous
difficulties which had still to be settled by the conferences
of the representatives of the various Powers, chiefly with
regard to the war-indemnity, Captain John Nairn, in
Leipzig, writes in the month of November 1649: “ After
I had moved into your former quarters I had the wardrobe
next to the door of the dining-room opened, for your
servant had taken the key. I found the knives.
Concerning the plate I had the two men-servants examined on
their oath, but they pretend to know nothing whatever
about it.”
Nairn (Nern) now and then adds an English Postcript.
1 We find him again as Colonel in Göteborg, 1651.
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