BLEWHOUS, GEORGE [SSNE 6323]
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George Blewhous 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"National Library of Scotland, Adv Mss, Denmilne Papers, vol. 11 (state business for the years 1624-1625), f.24. Letter to the King, August 1624.
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- POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG, DANZIG
- Arrived 1624-08-30
- Purpose MERCANTILE, TRADE, COMMERCE