RUYTER, WILIAM [SSNE 1571]

Surname
RUYTER, REYTER, REUTERUS, RYTTER, INGLIS
First name
WILIAM, WILLIAM
Nationality
SCOT

Text source

William Ryter Inglis served as a royal messanger and was sent with three others to Denmark with deer hounds summer 1599. He returned to Denmark in the Autumn of 1600 with James Chalmer when he took back falcons to Scotland along with a letter for James VI from Christian IV. He was again in Denmark at the end of 1601-beginning of 1602, after which he returned with a letter for Prince Henry Frederick from Christian IV. During this trip he signed Tage Thott's Stammbuch at Falkland 8/7/1602. Another trip was made to Denmark in the Spring of 1603.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), p.73.

Service record

SCOTLAND, DENMARK
Arrived 1599-01-01
Departed 1600-12-31
Capacity TRUMPETER, MUSICIAN, purpose ROYAL SERVANT
 
Arrived 1601-09-01
Departed 1602-01-30
Capacity MESSENGER, purpose ROYAL SERVANT
 
Arrived 1603-03-01
Departed 1603-12-31
Capacity MESSENGER, purpose ROYAL SERVANT