LAWSON, ? [SSNE 1157]
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Captain Lawson was listed as one of the Scottish officers at Thorn city with Colonel Cranston's [SSNE 2101] regiment between 1655-8 on behalf of the Swedes. He was among those targeted in numerous letters by General John Middleton, Major General Thomas Rokeby, Colonel Alex Durhame and Mr Davissone as one of the Cranstoun officers who may be persuaded to help hand over the city of Thorn to the Poles as this would demonstrate his loyalty to Charles II. Other officers names in the letter included Major Mercer, Captain Erskine, Captain Ramsay, Captain Edmonstone, and 'honest Archie Stirling'Swedish Riksarkiv, Extranea 135: IX, 4, interciperade brev 1600-talet, II brev till Skotska officerare, including 1) Middleton to Erskine, no date 2 & 3) Alex Durhame to Erskine, 24 October and 28 November 1657 4)Thomas Rokeby to Erskine, 28 November 1657 5) Mr Davissone to 'my honest friends the Scots officers in Torne' no date; T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), pp.134-5; A. Grosjean, 'Royalist Soldiers and Cromwellian Allies? The Cranstoun Regiment in Sweden 1655-1658' in S. Murdoch and A. Mackillop (eds.), Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience c.1550-1900 (Leiden, 2002), pp.61-82.
Service record
- SWEDEN, WILLIAM CRANSTON, THORN/TORUN
- Arrived 1655-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1658-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY