YOUNG, PETER [SSNE 1609]
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Peter Young served as a Stuart envoy to Denmark-Norway several times. He accompanied Sir Patrick Vaus [SSNE 1600] in the summer of 1587. King James VI of Scotland wrote Patrick on 14 June 1587 regarding Scottish merchant ships returning from Danzig with food - apparently the English had been intercepting them. The king requested that these ships not be tolled at Elsinore and he wanted to know all the details of the said ships in order to learn who was selling food to other countries when Scotland was in need of it. In 1596 Peter travelled with Lord Ogilvy of Airlie [SSNE 1562]; and in 1598 he joined David Cunningham not only to Denmark but also to German princes to explain James VI's right to the English crown.
In 1627 a diplomat called Sir Peter Young accompanied Sir James Spens [SSNE 1642] to Prussia to present the Order of the Garter to King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden on behalf of King Charles I. There, Young in turn was knighted by Gustav II Adolf. It is not clear if this was the same man who had previously travelled to Denmark. It is known that the Peter Young who did go to Denmark did not die until 1628. He would have been an extremely old man.
Sources:
Danish Rigsarkiv, TKUA Skotland A II 4; Historical Manuscripts Commission 9:I-XIX Salisbury (Cecil), XIII, 51; R.V. Agnew, Correspondence of Sir Patrick Vaus of Barnbarroch, knight, part 2 (Edinburgh, 1887), p.401; Old Dictionary of National Biography; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), p.81.
For Sir Peter Young in Sweden see: Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, second series II, 1627-1628. Robert Primrose to James Primrose, 8 November 1627 (confirming his knighthood in Sweden); Rikskansleren Axel Oxenstiernas skrifter och brefvexling, first series, III, pp.610 and 617 - here noted in the index, but the text simply calls him another 'English' courtier in Spens' retinue
Service record
- SCOTLAND, DENMARK-NORWAY [URANIBORG]
- Departed 1586-12-31
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY
- SCOTLAND, DENMARK-NORWAY
- Departed 1587-12-31
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY
- Departed 1589-12-31
- Capacity ROYAL SERVANT, purpose ROYAL SERVANT
- Departed 1590-12-31
- Capacity ROYAL SERVICE, purpose ROYAL SERVANT
- Departed 1595-12-31
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY
- Departed 1596-12-31
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY
- Departed 1598-12-31
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY
- STUART KINGDOMS, SWEDEN, SWEDISH COURT IN (Preussen) PRUSSIA, ELBING
- Capacity DIPLOMAT, purpose DIPLOMACY