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MONTROSE AT GOTHENBURG
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IV
A LETTER FROM BREMEN 1
{Extract)
24 January 16| £.
... Sir John Cockram is at the Court,2 having before his
going from Danzish procured contribution from his country¬
men there, three thousand Rix Dollars to set him forward on
his journey. It seems he hath great hopes of all manner of
supplyes from the King, being very zealous for that cause.
What I can learn further of his actions there, you shall heare.
V
LETTER FROM SWEDEN 3
Stockholm, the 26 Janu. 16f§.
For newes in these parts, ’tis credibly reported that Montrosse
hath shipt his officers and soldiers from Gottenburg for the
Isles of Orkney, being about twelve hundred of several nations.
When they had sailed about two leagues from shoare, they
were encountered with so much Ice and continuing Frost, that
they are frozen in, and ’tis thought will hardly get out this
winter.4
Montrosse hath with him the Kings colours of foot, of black
taffatie, with a man’s head in the middle, bleeding as if new
1 A Brief Relation, Feb. 5-12 (E. 593, 2), p. 313.
2 Of the King of Poland. Some papers relating to Cochrane’s embassy have
recently appeared amongst the mss. of the Duke of Portland, calendered in the
Hist. mss. Commission’s Report xiii., App., Part n., pp. 24-28.
3 A Brief Relation, Feb. 19-26 (E. 594, 8), p. 360.
4 It will be observed that nothing is said here, any more than in the letters of
Ribbing printed in Deeds of Montrose, Appendix viii., about any wrecks on the
Swedish coast. This paper appears to be the basis of the story to that effect,
printed in Balfour, vol. iii. p. 438. The account of the wreck given in Montrose
Redivivus (p. 174) is that two ships were sent before, but, by stress of weather,
which is both frequent and dangerous amongst those northern islands, they
were lost with all the men and arms, nothing saved. Is it not possible that a
wreck really took place on some part of the Orkneys, and that the newsmongers
mixed it in with the ice troubles near Gothenburg ?
5
IV
A LETTER FROM BREMEN 1
{Extract)
24 January 16| £.
... Sir John Cockram is at the Court,2 having before his
going from Danzish procured contribution from his country¬
men there, three thousand Rix Dollars to set him forward on
his journey. It seems he hath great hopes of all manner of
supplyes from the King, being very zealous for that cause.
What I can learn further of his actions there, you shall heare.
V
LETTER FROM SWEDEN 3
Stockholm, the 26 Janu. 16f§.
For newes in these parts, ’tis credibly reported that Montrosse
hath shipt his officers and soldiers from Gottenburg for the
Isles of Orkney, being about twelve hundred of several nations.
When they had sailed about two leagues from shoare, they
were encountered with so much Ice and continuing Frost, that
they are frozen in, and ’tis thought will hardly get out this
winter.4
Montrosse hath with him the Kings colours of foot, of black
taffatie, with a man’s head in the middle, bleeding as if new
1 A Brief Relation, Feb. 5-12 (E. 593, 2), p. 313.
2 Of the King of Poland. Some papers relating to Cochrane’s embassy have
recently appeared amongst the mss. of the Duke of Portland, calendered in the
Hist. mss. Commission’s Report xiii., App., Part n., pp. 24-28.
3 A Brief Relation, Feb. 19-26 (E. 594, 8), p. 360.
4 It will be observed that nothing is said here, any more than in the letters of
Ribbing printed in Deeds of Montrose, Appendix viii., about any wrecks on the
Swedish coast. This paper appears to be the basis of the story to that effect,
printed in Balfour, vol. iii. p. 438. The account of the wreck given in Montrose
Redivivus (p. 174) is that two ships were sent before, but, by stress of weather,
which is both frequent and dangerous amongst those northern islands, they
were lost with all the men and arms, nothing saved. Is it not possible that a
wreck really took place on some part of the Orkneys, and that the newsmongers
mixed it in with the ice troubles near Gothenburg ?
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| Description | Edited, with notes and introduction, by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Spine title: Charles II and Scotland in 1650. 16 pages immediately following text contain List of members of the Scottish History Society, July 1894. Last 16 pages contain Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Scottish History Society. |
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