ROBINSON, THOMAS [SSNE 8132]

Surname

ROBINSON, ROUBESOUN, ROBISON, ROBYNSSON, ROBERTSON

First name

THOMAS

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Captain Thomas Robinson was a Scottish officer in Dutch service in the 1570s. He was commissioned by the Scottish Privy Council on 6 June 1573 to levy 300 men for "the defence of Goddis trew religioun aganis the persecutiouris thairof," (Ferguson, p. 5). He appears in the pay lists of Holland for 1573-1574 and 1575-1577.

 

Sources:

J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in theservice of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 5, 36-37.

Sir Roger Williams and D.W. Davies (ed.), The Actions of the Low Countries (1964), p. 161.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy. 

Service record

LOW COUNTRIES, HOLLAND, THE SCOTS BRIGADE, ORMISTON, H. BALFOUR

Arrived 1573-06-06, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1577-05-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY