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126613898.23.Pdf NATIONAL LIBRARY of SCOTLAND Lending Services 33 Salisbury Place Edinburgh EH91SL Telephone 0131-226 4531 Fax 0131-668 3894 This book mus/be retVned to the above address as sootf as the r^der has finished with it and, in any case, not later than the date due. / \ If the book/is required for a lonVr period, a special application to this effe\t must be receivedW less than THREE DAYS before it is due. On re/um it must be securely wrapped with the enclosed pre-addressed label being used on the parcel. National Library of Scotland 1111111111111*6000151625* SCS.SHJ'. 11- ^ NATIONfili inBARY OF SCOTLAND Lending Services PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XXXII THE SCOTS BRIGADE IN HOLLAND VOL. I January 1899 PAPERS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE SCOTS BRIGADE IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS 1572-1782 Extracted by permission from the Government Archives at The Hague, and edited by JAMES FERGUSON VOL. i 1572-1697 EDINBURGH Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society 1899 OARMEfltt UKITEi KlltMtf TRurr CONTENTS General Introduction, ix List of the Successive Colonels of the Scots Brigade, . xxxiv DIVISION I The War of Independence, 1572-1609. Introductory Narrative, . 3 (1.) Preliminary Extracts from the Archives of Holland. 1573-1587, 36 (2.) States of War. 1579-1609, 43 (3.) Commissions granted by the Council at the East side of the Meuse, the Governor-General, the Earl of Leicester, and the Council of State. 1581-1595, . 76 (4.) Extracts relating to the claims of Colonel Bartholomew Balfour and the position of the Scottish Officers. 1586-1594, . 96 (5.) Papers relating to the Claims and Embassies of Colonel Sir William Stewart of Houston, Sir Wrlliam Murray, and Others, and Reports of the Dutch Embassies to England and Scotland in 1588, 1589, and 1594. 1588-1595, . .115 (6.) Extracts from Resolutions of the [States-General, Letters of Recommendation, and Requests and Petitions sent to the Council of State. 1594-1609, 177 vi THE SCOTS BRIGADE IN HOLLAND DIVISION II The Time of the Twelve Years’ Truce, 1609-1621. PAGE Introductory Narrative, 221 (1.) States of War. 1610-1618, 226 (2.) Extracts from Correspondence, Recommendations, Resolutions, Reports, and Requests. 1609-16ll, . 234 (3.) Extracts relating to the Services and Claims of Sir William Balfour and Captain Henry Balfour. 1611-1615, 250 (4.) Extracts relating to the Services and Claims of Colonel Lord Buccleuch and his Son the first Earl of Buccleuch. l6ll-l620, .... 256 (5.) Resolutions, Reports, Requests, Recommendations, etc. 1612-1620, 270 DIVISION III The Thirty Years' War, 1621-1648. Introductory Narrative, ....... 307 (1.) States of War. 1621-1648, 318 (2.) Resolutions, Reports, Requests, Recommendations, etc. 1621-1629 335 (3.) Resolutions relating to Captain William Douglas. 1626-1629, c 358 (4.) Further Extracts relating to the Services and Claims of Sir William Balfour. 1627-1634, . 369 (5.) Extracts relating to the Claims and Services of the Earl of Buccleuch. 1623-1635, . .378 (6.) Papers relating to the Earl of Morton’s Regiment, commanded by Lord Kinfauns. 1629-1630, . 396 CONTENTS vii (7-) Resolutions, Despatches, etc., relative to recruiting in England and Scotland. 1632-1638, . 406 (8.) Resolutions, Reports, Requests, Recommendations, etc. 1630-1645, 438 DIVISION IV The Age of William of Orange and the British Revolution, 1649-1697. Introductory Narrative, ....... 465 (1.) States of War. 1649-1689, • .... 489 (2.) Papers illustrating the Position of the Brigade during the War with the English Commonwealth. 1652-1653, 519 (3.) Papers illustrating the Position of the Brigade during the War with Great Britain. 1664-1668, . 521 (4.) Papers relating to the Despatch of the Brigade to England on the occasion of the Duke of Mon- mouth’s Rebellion. 1685, 536 (5.) Papers relating to the Recall of the Brigade by King James in 1688. 1688, ..... 542 (6.) The Revolution of 1688, and the period in British Service to the Peace of Ryswick. 1689-1697, . 566 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The papers embraced in this and the subsequent volumes consist of documents, transcribed in Holland, illustrating the services of the Scots regiments to the United Netherlands during the long period of more than two hundred years for which the Scots Brigade formed part of the permanent military establishment of the Dutch Republic, except for an interregnum of about ten years between the Revolution of 1688 and the Peace of Ryswick, when these troops were in British pay, and in the direct service of Great Britain under King William m. They consist of two classes : (a) Documents from the archives of the United Netherlands at the Hague, relating to part of the sixteenth, the seventeenth, and the eighteenth centuries; and (6) the Rotterdam Papers, a collection of regimental papers which were kept in the regiments, and afterwards pre- served among the records of the Scots Church at Rotterdam, from which they were removed to the municipal archives at the Town Hall, where they still remain. In the first volume are embraced the documents from the Dutch Government archives relating to the period prior to the service of the Brigade in Great Britain after the Revolution of 1688: in the second it is proposed to include the further documents from the State archives for the period from 1697 to the final merging of the Brigade among the Dutch national troops, and the departure of the British officers: and in the third, the Rotterdam Papers, which form a separate series, will be printed. The sources from which the papers contained in the first two volumes are drawn consist of several series of records preserved in the ‘ Rijks Archief ’ at the Hague. They include THE SCOTS BRIGADE IN HOLLAND extracts from the Resolutions of the States-General, from the secret resolutions of the same, from the ‘ Instruction Books,’ the files of the incoming documents, and separate portfolios of requests, from the diplomatic correspondence, the secret diplomatic correspondence, and the reports of the ambassadors given to the States-General on their return to the Hague. They also include extracts from the resolutions of the Council of State, from the collection of letters sent to the Council of State, from the commission books of the Land Council at the east side of the Meuse, which preceded the Council of State (1581-84) and of the Council of State, and from the portfolios marked Military Affairs. The names of the officers are taken from the States of War, which are documents made up with the object of showing the military establishment for the time being, and the proportion in which its expenses fell to be defrayed by the separate provinces which constituted the United Netherlands. It will be noted that the archives of the United Netherlands at the Hague do not furnish illustrations of the earlier history of the Scottish troops, the reason being that it was only after the Union of Utrecht, and the reconciliation of the Walloon Provinces with the King of Spain, that the permanent central government of the outstanding provinces took shape. Previous to this the Scottish troops were either in the service of Holland and Zealand alone, or in that of the States-General of the whole associated provinces of the Low Countries during the campaigns against Don John of Austria. As, however, special interest attaches to the early services of the Scots in the war of independence, there are prefixed to the papers which form the proper subject of the volume, a series of extracts from the Resolutions and Pay Lists of Holland which supply the blank. With this exception the mass of material has rendered it necessary to confine the reproduction to the archives of the United Netherlands. To search for and publish the whole documents relating to the Brigade in the Low Countries GENERAL INTRODUCTION xi would involve ransacking not only the independent archives of Holland, but those also of Zealand, Guelderland, and pro- bably other provinces, and certainly those of the great garrison towns like Breda, Bois-le-Duc, and Maestricht. But a con- siderable amount of material has been obtained from the Records of Holland, which has been found valuable for pur- poses of illustration and explanation, while the annotation in regard to the personnel of the officers has been much assisted by extracts from the Oath Books and Commission Books. The extent of time covered by the subject, and the clear- marked character of the periods into which the history divides itself, indicated the method which has been adopted in the arrangement of the materials. The papers have been collected in sections corresponding to distinct historical developments, and a short historical introduction, noting the services of the Scots regiments, as far as they can be traced, prefixed to each section. The documents have themselves been arranged, irrespective of the series of Dutch records from which they come, in chronological order, subject, however, to the collecting together, where this seemed advisable, of those relating to a particular subject or the claims of a particular individual. THE SUCCESSION OF THE REGIMENTS The Scots Brigade in Holland began by the enlistment of separate companies, each complete under its own captain. At what time these were embodied into a distinct regiment it is difficult to say, but they underwent the experience afterwards undergone by the Black Watch, and by every administrative battalion of rifle volunteers. Colonel Ormiston is referred to in 1573. In 1586 the Scots companies were divided into two regiments under Colonels Balfour and Patten, and by the time of the Spanish Armada, if not indeed before, the elder regiment seems to have had its complete regimental organisation. The second regiment was brought over complete by Lord Buccleuch in 1603.
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