CROFTS, WILLIAM [SSNE 6517]

Surname

CROFTS

First name

WILLIAM

Title/rank

LORD

Nationality

BRITISH, ENGLISH

Text source

Lord William Crofts was sent by King Charles II to Poland in 1650 in order to obtain a tithe from the Scots living and working there. This tithe was a 10% property tax which would raise £10,000

L. Bittner and L. Gross, Reportorium der diplomatischen vertreter aller lander, vol. 1, 1648-1715 (Oldenburg and Berlin, 1936), p.195; A. Bieganska, "Scottish Merchants and traders in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Warsaw", Scottish Slavonic Review, 5 (1985), p.23; R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.195; A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.23.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, WARSAW

Arrived 1650-12-01

Departed 1650-12-31

Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY

STUART KINGDOMS, WARSAW, POLAND-LITHUANIA

Arrived 1660-04-01

Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY