BURNET, GILBERT [SSNE 5601]

Surname

BURNET, BURNETT

First name

GILBERT

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Nationality

SCOT

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Text source

In 1603 a Gilbert Burnet, once a merchant but then a Servitor to William Graham, Courtier to King Sigismund of Poland, appeared as a witness at court in Cracow, regarding the private guilds of the Scottish merchants in Poland. 

A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793 (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.76-8.

Service record

POLAND, WARSAW

Arrived 1603-01-01

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE