COCHRANE, HUGO [SSNE 4221]

Surname

COCHRANE, COCHRAN

First name

HUGO, HUGH

Title/rank

OFFICER

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Hugh Cochran is listed as one of the Scottish officers given a Latin letter of safe conduct on 17 December 1608. They were sent under the auspices of James Spens [SSNE 1642] to King James VI and I in London in 1608/9 seeking levies for Swedish service. He was amongst Samuel Cockburn [SSNE 4219], Daniel Rogers [SSNE 4222], Robert Kinnaird [SSNE 4223], Patrick Ruthven [SSNE 3413], John Wauchop [SSNE 4220], George Douglas [SSNE 2129] and William Horne [SSNE 4224]

Swedish Riksarkiv, Latin registratur 1606-1609, fol. 76r, letter dated Stockholm 17 December 1609; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.72.

Service record

SWEDEN, SCOTLAND

Arrived 1608-01-01, as OFFICER

Departed 1609-12-31, as OFFICER

Capacity RECRUITER, purpose MILITARY