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DRAXHOLM.
Chap. XXVII.
with so well-known a pirate. Some of the crew affirmed
they knew of no other captain than one Wodt, to whom
the pink belonged. The commission add, that this
Hamburger (as Bothwell styles him in his narrative)
was a well-known pirate.
Still they suspected the earl was about to go over to
Sweden, a country at war with Denmark: they
accordingly recommend that he should take an oath that
he would keep peace towards his Danish Majesty’s
subjects, as well as towards all those who brought goods to
his Majesty’s dominions. On this account only Erik
Bosenkrantz sends him a prisoner to Copenhagen. This
was no doubt the origin of the accusation of piracy
made by the Earl of Murray against Bothwell by the
mouth of the infant king, aged eighteen months. The
earl had come to raise men in the north to aid the royal
cause. Indeed, so satisfactory was his examination on
this point, it is mentioned in the ‘ Liber Bergensis ’ that
two days after his examination—
“ 28th Sept. Erik Bosenkrantz gave to the earl and
his noblemen a magnificent banquetand again, “ the
earl repaired to the castle, and Erik received him with
great honour.”
On the 17th of the same month, however, is noted a
circumstance of a less agreeable kind :—
“ Mrs. Anna, Christopher Trandsøn’s daughter,
brought a suit against the Earl of Both wile, for having
taken her away from her native country, and refusing
to treat her as his married wife, although he by hand,
word of mouth, and by letters, had promised her so to
do, which letters she caused to be read before him.
And inasmuch as he had three wives living—first herself;
then another in Scotland, of whom he had rid himself
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