RUTHVEN, JAMES [SSNE 5304]
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James Ruthven was a Scot living and working in Danzig in 1624. At the end of August 1624, a group of Scots based both in Danzig and Leumsbrig (probably Lemsburg, now Lvov in Ukraine) wrote a letter to James VI looking for his intervention complaining of the "oppressioune [against the Scots] of the strangeris amang quhome we lieff". It was signed "your maeisteis most humble and distressied subiectis of the Scottis nacioun remaining in Dantzig and Leumsbrig written at Dantzig this penult August 1624 [signed] James Moresoun, James Ruthvene, George Blewhous with sindrie utheris quhais manis cannot heir be contained; and at Leumsbrig William Lyndsay, David Outertoun [?], Thomas Mortimer, David Maxwell". In 1627, a Colonel James Murray commissioned James Rowan/Ruthven to collect his pension in Danzig, and in 1632 Ruthven was still in Poland, petitioning the Scottish Privy Council for a birthbrieveNational Library of Scotland, Adv Mss, Denmilne Papers, vol. 11 (state business for the years 1624-1625), f.24. Letter to the King, August 1624; A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland, p.xxi; Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 2nd series, pp.480-1.
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- POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG, DANZIG
- Arrived 1624-08-30
- Departed 1632-12-31
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE, COMMERCIAL, TRADE