Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic GroupIn the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of Scots migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Some sojourned there for some time, while others stayed permanently and exercised commercial business and crafts. The migration stopped in the eighteenth century, and the Scots who remained in Poland seem to have lost their ethnic identity. This book offers an examination and assessment of this migration: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating Scottish presence in Poland-Lithuania; their commercial, academic, religious and military activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania. |
Contents
Introduction A New Perspective on Scottish Migration to the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth in the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries | 1 |
The State of Present Scholarship and the Sources | 11 |
The SocioPolitical Situation in Scotland and in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth | 41 |
The Scale of Migration of Scots to the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth | 77 |
The Social MakeUp of the Scottish Migration and Spheres of Commercial Activity | 117 |
Chapter Five The Life of Scottish Migrants in PolandLithuania | 173 |
Scots in the Reformed ParishesDefining Identity | 221 |
Scotsmen and the Polish Nobility | 303 |
Appendix VI Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in WielkanocLucianowice 16401649 | 429 |
Appendix VII Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in Wilno 16401649 | 435 |
Appendix VIII Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in Kiejdany 16401649 | 438 |
Appendix IX Reiestr Auditorów Zboru Kieydańskiego 1697 | 443 |
Appendix X Citizens of Kiejdany 16581735 | 451 |
Appendix XI Scots Admitted to Civic Rights in Lwów 15571754 | 454 |
Appendix XII British Diplomats in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth 15801700 | 458 |
Appendix XIII British Officers and Troops under British Command in PolandLithuania 1570s1790s | 462 |
Conclusion Scottish Migration to the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Redefined | 341 |
Appendices | 353 |
Appendix II Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of St Peter and St Paul Church Gdańsk 16401649 | 391 |
Appendix III Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of St Elizabeth Church Gdańsk 16401649 | 405 |
Appendix IV Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in Königsberg 16401649 | 420 |
Appendix V Reiestr Auditorów albo Słuchaczów Zboru Wielkanockiego y Lucianowskiego | 427 |
Appendix XIV Polish Nobility of British Origin 16th18th Centuries | 491 |
Appendix XV Families of Polish Nobility of British Origin 16th18th Centuries | 504 |
Bibliography | 509 |
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