RAMSEY, JAMES [SSNE 8102]
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Captain James Ramsey served in the regiment of the Earl of Morton during the 1628 Ile de Rhé expedition. Both he and Captain Sir Henry Acheson [SSNE 8242] raised their companies in Ireland. However, both captains were left behind the fleet and thus probably did not fight in France. Both captains stayed in the regiment when it transferred to Sir George Hay of Kinfauns' [SSNE 5056] for service in the Dutch Republic. The regiment was contracted between March and April 1629 for a period of four months, and consisted of around 2,000 men who would go on to fight at the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch. Ramsey was killed in an assault on the Spanish defenses on 19 August 1629. His death was reported by Frederick V to Elizabeth of Bohemia. He is the only officer of Hay's regiment known to have died in the siege.
Sources:
Akkerman, Nadine (ed.), The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (2 Vols, Oxford 2015), Vol. 1, pp. 778-778.
Ferguson, J., Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in theservice of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 400, 404.
Hexham, Henry, A historicall relation of the famous siege of the Busse… and some other addition herevnto annexed (Delft, 1630), p. 27.
TNA, SP 16/116, f. 117. Norton to Conway, 8 Sept 1628.
-SP 16/529, f. 157. Petition of Acheson and Ramsey, [undated] 1628 ?
This entry created by Mr. Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- THE STUART KINGDOMS, FRANCE, LA ROCHELLE, EARL OF MORTON'S REGIMENT
- Departed 1628-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE SCOTS BRIGADE, HAY'S
- Departed 1629-08-19, as DECEASED
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY