DRUMMOND, JAMES [SSNE 7765]
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Captain James Drummond was one of the several Scots who privately engaged in levying on behalf of the Swedish crown in 1611-12, when Sweden and Denmark-Norway were engaged in the Kalmar war. This was at a time when King James VI and I had promised his brother-in-law King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway that he would not allow levying for Swedish service. On 5 August 1612 the Privy Council in Edinburgh served a bond for 5000 merks against Captain James Drummond that he would promise to remain in Edinburgh or Leith and not transport any of the men he had levied for Sweden without a licence from King James VI and I. A Mr John Hay of East Kenneth stood as cautioner for Drummond. It is possibly this James Drummond who is noted in the Privy Council records for December 1616 as having a case against the baillies of Edinburgh and for whom 'Letters to be put to liberty' is noted. This Captain Drummond is probably the same man referred to as 'Colonel Jakob Drummond' in the Swedish government protocol for 1628 when discussing Swedish troop movements to Prussia and Riga for the ongoing campaigns there under the command of King Gustav II Adolf. He is apparently a colonel of a Swedish regiment at the same time as David Drummond and very often the sources just refer to an unspecified 'colonel Drummond' without giving the first name.
Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, first series, vol.9, p.433-4; vol.10, p.687. Svenska Riksradets Protokoll, vol.1, pp.xxvii, xxviii, xxxii, 83, 92.
Service record
- SWEDEN, EDINBURGH
- Arrived 1612-08-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1612-12-01, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY, RECRUITMENT
- SWEDEN,
- Arrived 1628-01-01, as COLONEL
- Departed 1628-12-31, as COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY