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A page dedicated to the life and career of the 17th century Scottish mercenary, Colonel James Wardla

13/11/2020

13 November 1642 was the Battle of Turnham Green. Faced by a Parliamentarian army of 24,000 under the Earl of Essex, the Royalist advance on London stalled. After a day's skirmishing & stand-off, the Royalist army withdrew to Oxford.

13/11/2019

17/08/2019

On This Day: 17th August 1641 James Wardlaw petitioned the Scottish Parliament for compensation to cover the costs of being imprisoned in York after being captured on his way back to join the covenanters from the wars in Europe.

14/08/2019

On This Day: 14th of August 1603, James Wardlaw was born in Edinburgh. He was the fifth surviving son of Sir Henry (later Baronet) Wardlaw of Pitreavie Castle in Fife, Scotland. The image below shows the parish register that contains the record of his baptism.

09/07/2019

On This Day: 9th July 1594 Henry Wardlaw, father of James, was admitted as burgess and guild brother of Edinburgh. This would have given Henry access to mercantile opportunities in the city as well as allowing him to foster social and professional connections with members of the wealthy merchant class.

30/05/2019

On This Day: May 30th 1644 the House of Commons journal records that James Wardlaw was “discharged from any further Attendance in this Cause”. James Wardlaw was thus free to engage himself to another cause of his choosing and it seems that his thoughts returned to service in Russia.

27/05/2019

On This Day: 27th of May 1614 Sir Henry Wardlaw, father of James Wardlaw, was awarded a charter under the great seal of King James VI and I in which he was named predelictus servitor (favoured/preferred servant) and his lands in Pitreavie and the surrounding areas were erected into a barony.

16/05/2019

On This Day: 16th of May 1565, Cuthbert Wardlaw of Balmule and his wife, Katherine had their second son, Henry, baptized at Dunfermline. Henry Wardlaw would oversee a rise in the wealth and social standing of his branch of the Wardlaw family into which James Wardlaw himself would be born in 1603.

09/04/2019

On This Day: 9th April 1626 Peter Ernst Graf von Mansfeld personally signed a commission presented to Sir Donald Mackay of Farr for the raising of a regiment of 3000 men to fight against the forces of the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Empire. As well as reinforcing Mansfeld himself, the regiment was to provide support to the forces of King Christian IV of Denmark. James Wardlaw appears on the muster roll of Mackay's regiment in 1629.

01/03/2019

On This Day: 1st March 1634 Mikhail Borisovich Shein surrenders his army to King Władysław IV of Poland who had succeeded in lifting the Muscovite siege of Smolensk 5 months earlier. James Wardlaw was a major in the contingent of the Muscovite army that had been remodelled according to the Western European regimental system under Colonel Alexander Leslie of Auchintoul. The picture below depicts Shein at the moment of his surrender to the Polish King. Behind the prostrate Shein kneel three men who are dressed in a more western style. It is possible that Wardlaw is represented by one of these figures.

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Pitreavie Castle
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http://www.wardlawsdragoones.co.uk/

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