Treasure #BeardedDragon #Nag #DailyDOC

Treasure #BeardedDragon #Nag #DailyDOC

Sir Fredrick Hamilton found many "young and doughty volunteirs" for his Irish regiment destined for Swedish service in Germany (1631).

The were a mix of native Irish and Scottish settlers.

It was complicated.

#DailyDoc #ThirtyYearsWar #17thC #Skystorians #EarlyModern

Margaret Hamilton was the daughter of Captain John Hamilton of the Scots-Dutch Brigade. Here the Scottish Privy Council writes in support of her attempt to gain financial assistance after her umquhile father's long service.

The Dutch refused .....

#DailyDoc #Skystorians #EarlyModern #17thC

Great Uncle. Alfred McKenzie, Artillery. Died of wounds (caused by Gas), 9 October 1918. I never met him. I have never forgotten him.

But I did visit last year.

#Skystorians #MilHist #DailyDoc #WWI

Random Seals .....

Something here for everyone

James IV, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cromwell, James VII & II

#DailyDoc #16thC #17thC #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Colonel Robert Monro, famous for the memoir of his service in Danish and Swedish service (His Expedition, 1637), should also be remembered for this: The establishment of a hospital in 1634 for veteran soldiers of the #ThirtyYearsWar

#DailyDoc #EarlyModern #17thC #Medicine #Skystorians #MilHist

The enigmatic Scottish cleric John Durie picked an excellent time (1639) to petition Christian IV about the unification of the protestant churches; just as the Calvinist Revolution kicked off between the Covenanters & Christian's blood nephew, Charles I! #DailyDoc #17thC #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Scottish Colonel, James Ramsay, became exacerbated for being poorly provisioned by the #Swedish army, he left his usual written medium (#German) and reverted to his native #Scots. Memel 1630

He quipped, it is "best to content sodjers nor discontent them"

#DailyDoc #17thC #EarlyModern #Skystorians

James VI of Great Britain! What did Britain mean?
Gustav II Adolf clearly got the distinction between the Royal House of Great Britain, and the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland as political entities. Support could come from all 3 at once. Obvious really 😉

#DailyDoc #EarlyModern #17thC

Tut, tut! A somewhat naughty (but strictly legal?) Brandenburg Privateer taking two Swedish ships off the coast of England while flying English colours

- classic Ruse de Guerre (1675)

#DailyDoc

#Maritime #EarlyModern #Warfare #17thC #Skystorians #Sweden #Brandenburg #England

At an economic history conference. Here is an example of perfectly balance accounts. Henry Davidson, 1664

#DailyDoc #17thCentury #EarlyModern #Skystorians #Economics

The seals attached to the marriage agreement of James VI of Scotland & Anna of Denmark (1589) are simply breathtaking.

Photo by my dear friend (new to BSky). Welcome @jemmafield.bsky.social

Do give Jemma a follow!

#DailyDoc #16thC #EarlyModern #Skystorians #Diplomacy #17thC

The #DailyDoc today: Oliver #Cromwell to Fredrik III of Denmark-Norway in support of two #Scottish merchant skippers. Welcome @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social

Give them a follow. A really balanced take on the life and times of a controversial man

#17thC #EarlyModern #Skystorians #Museums #Maritime

The Complaint of Charles IX of Sweden (1667) because of Privateers, a #Swedish Memorial against a #Scottish Privateer (1672) - and a list of Swedes taken Prize by the #English (1693).

I have more - lots more ....

#DailyDoc #17thC #EarlyModern #Maritime #Skystorians #Privateers #svhist

A small reminder that the man known as Lord Darnley was De Facto and De Jure, Henry King of Scots.

For the best article on his status see Cynthia Fry: Northern Studies 43 (2012) - Scottish Society for Northern Studies (ssns.org.uk)

#DailyDoc #16thC #EarlyModern #Skystorians

"The Muster of the Dead"

Usually Muster Rolls tell you who is serving in a regiment at a given time. Drafted after Wittstock (1636) this is a rare insight into regimental losses.

KrA Rullor MR 1637/18: Hans Drakes Regiment (Kronoborg).
 
#DailyDoc #ThirtyYearsWar #17thC #EarlyModern #MilHist

The Caman and the Sword:

When the #Gaelic Redshanks went "on tour" in the #EarlyModern period, they took their sport with them. A grave in the north of #Ireland hosts this wonderful graveslab shows this well.

Someone once suggested they took it to Sweden 😉

#DailyDoc #Sport #Shinty #16thC #17thC

Frances Drummond's soldier husband abandoned her & called her a whore. She tracked him down:

"Madam I pray god yt I may neuer anter in to ye kingdom of heauan nor neuer see ye face of god if I euer nue him to bee man or woman till I was married to him yt night"

#DailyDoc #17thC #ThirtyYearsWar

Who knew that Alexander Leslie, Lord General of the Army of the Covenant, was a Campbell by fosterage (with all that entails for kith and kin loyalty)?

Apart from those who read the book...

#DailyDoc #17thC #EarlyModern #Covenanters #Fosterage #FictiveKinship #MilHist #Military

A mother, Margaret Bursie, writes to the College of War in Sweden (1667) in Swedish asking that her son may leave his post to visit Scotland and learn about his heritage. She signs off in #Scots

"god bles Ȝoūr Lordship & pray Ȝoūr Lordship pity [me]"

#DailyDoc #17thC #EarlyModern #Linguistics

During the #ThirtyYearsWar c.50,000 Scots fought on the anti-Habsburg side. Most were raised on warrants from their King and the Scottish Privy Council. They could be indignant at having to fight under foreign flag. The #Danish case (1627):

#DailyDoc #17thC #EarlyModern #Military #Scotland #Denmark

Col. Alexander 10th Lord Forbes in #Sweden quoting George Buchanan's 1579 "De Jure Regni" to Axel Oxenstierna c.1650.

#Covenanters were said to carry copies to war in 1639.

It was the most-banned #book in pre-1707 #Scottish #History!

#DailyDoc #17thC #Military #BookHistory #Latin #EarlyModern

The earliest known initiations of speculative #Freemasons in the world were those of Sir Alexander Hamilton (1640) and Sir Robert Moray (1641). Both were Generals in the Army of the Covenant. Moray's is the first recorded in a "Field Lodge"

#DailyDoc

#17thC #EarlyModern #Esoteric #Military #Mason

The Auld Alliance between #Scotland and #France was not abandoned in 1560 as often claimed. Here, Louis XIII insists on the military deployment he expects from Scotland (1634) fullfilled 1643

#DailyDoc

Read the book for more 😀

#17thC #ThirtyYearsWar #Military #History #AuldAlliance #EarlyModern

The oldest Admiralty Court record from the period of Colonial #America

#DailyDoc

The Burgh of Stade and the Maryland ‘Court of Admiralty’ by Steve Murdoch, Edward Furgol and A.D.M Forte in Forum Navale, vol. 60 (2004), pp.94-111

#17thC #History #Maritime #Maryland #America #svhist #Sweden

The Battle of Breitenfeld 1631.

A great #Swedish victory after their #Saxon allies fled. As contemporary witnesses reported (including Gustav II Adolf), it was the #Scottish reserve that plugged the gap and saved the day!

#DailyDoc #ThirtyYearsWar #EarlyModern #Military #History #svhist #17thC

Ever wanted to know what the "Our Father" prayer or "The Creed" statement of faith looked like in the Malabar Language (1672)?

Luckily, both have the #Latin written above them for those who can't read the original.

#DailyDoc #Religion #India #Kerala #Malabar #EarlyModern

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