2. How he obtained a letter of safe-conduct or a permission to leave the country.
3. How many foreign officers are still in Sweden, and who of them are engaged in raising troops abroad.
4. From whom among their countrymen and to whom they are conveying letters. For there is no doubt that Stuart as well as others have given letters to their friends.
5. What Stuart did with the letter of safe-conduct which he received from us at Calmar.
6. Let him tell the reason why Stuart is called by all the Swedes ambassador of the King of Great Britain.
7. What conditions they have offered to Stuart with a view to freeing themselves from their debt to him.
The lieutenant to be asked especially how he came to leave his captain, and under what commander (general?) he has served.
And since it is clearer than noonday that men like these, who have long served in Sweden, would by no means be allowed to leave the country without a special passport, how he managed to get away from thence.
Immediately after this most gracious mandate had been received, we assigned to the said Ramsay the private chamber of Otto, the governor of the castle, as the place where he should present himself, and there we examined him separately, and heard him make openly the following statements:—