User:Clarkobot/Sir Andrew Gray, 7th

Sir Andrew Gray, 7th Sir Andrew Gray figures frequently in the history during the reign of James VI. Being a Catholic, he was obnoxious to the Church, and in 1594 as "Captain Andrew Gray" was classed among Papists and traitors in the "Book of the Universall Kirk". At the Battle of Glenlivet, he commanded the Earl of Huntly's artillery (Wodrow). Despite being called "a ranke Papist" by Calderwood, he nevertheless, in 1620 drew his sword to defend the lands of Princess Elizabeth when the Protestant kingdoms of Bohemia were being overrun by the Catholics under the Archduke when in 1620 when In 1620 He formed a recruitment camp on the Monkrig in Haddingtonshire, to enlist men to join him in the Bohemian wars against the Emperor of Germany. On May 19, Lady Margaret Setoun wrote, "Coronell Gray, his captains and their men of weir, are all going to Bohemia the xx. of this instant." (Eglinton Memorials.) He embarked from Leith with 1500 men, sailed to Holland and then were conducted through Frankfort with the aid of Henry Frederick, Prince of Nassau, in order to avoid the Marquis of Spinola who was guarding the pasage through...