DOUGLAS, PETER [SSNE 4961]
Text source
Peter Douglas served as a captain of a Scots regiment in the Low Countries between 1579-1584. He appears to have got in some bother with the Dutch authorities which resulted in the intervention of the Earl of Mar with Dutch diplomats.
Sources:
'Report of the Dutch Ambassadors 1594' in J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), p.166.
D. Dobson 'Scottish Soldiers in Continental Europe [part one] (St Andrews, 1997).
HaNA, 1.01.02, 12576.15.
This entry updated by Dr Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE SCOTS BRIGADE
- Arrived 1579-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1594-11-30, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY