BELY, ROBERT [SSNE 6024]

Surname

BELY, BAILLIE, BELLIE, BAYLIE

First name

ROBERT, ROBERTO

Title/rank

BURGESS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

LAMINGTON, SOUTH LANARKSHIRE

Text source

Robert Baillie was amongst the Scots and English in Danzig who subscribed to the subsidy for King Charles II in 1651. He paid 30 florins. He was possibly the same as Robert Baylie from Lamington who became a burgess of Danzig in 1664.

A.B. Pernal and R.P. Gasse, The 1651 Polish Subsidy to the exiled Charles II, Oxford Slavonic Papers, vol xxxii (Oxford, 1999), p.37; Z. Guldon and L. Stepkowski, Szkoci i Anglicy w Koronie w polowie XVII wieku, Kieleckie Studia Historyczne, ii (1977); T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.196.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, ROYAL PRUSSIA, DANZIG

Arrived 1651-01-01

Capacity MERCHANT?, purpose MERCANTILE?