BURNET, JOHN [SSNE 5072]
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John Burnet was an Aberdonian who became a burgess of Cracow in 1608 (according to Peter Paul Bajer).
In 1607 John Burnet presented a birthbrieve dated Aberdeen 29 July 1603, took the oath and paid 10 florins, a gun and half a stone of gunpowder to become a citizen of Cracow.
It has not been determined whether he was a relation of Thomas Burnet [SSNE 5074].
Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), p.41; Lib. Jur. Civ. Crac., 1555-1612, fo. 1045; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries, (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.2.
Service record
- POLAND, CRACOW
- Arrived 1607-01-01
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE