JAMES, ? [SSNE 3948]

Surname

JAMES

First name

?

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

GENTRY

Text source

In November 1591 King James VI asked Queen Elizabeth of England to write to the Tsar on behalf of a Scots Captain named James who had long been imprisoned in Muscovy.

N. E. Evans, Slavonic Review [SEER] Vol.55, No. 4, 1977; HMC, Portland MSS, London, 1893, Vol. II, p.18, D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection (Aberdeen, 1996);

Service record

RUSSIA, MOSCOW

Arrived 1591-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1591-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity PRISONER, purpose MISC