John Clerk

Andre Hendelser og Egenskaper:

• Occupation: 1579, Shetland Islands; There may have been cases of reprisal piracy by some Scots seized by danes. In January 1579 a royal proclamation of James VI to was placed on the market cross and other places in Orkney and Shetland to the effect that Eatl Robert Stewart, was commissioned to search for and apprehend Captain Clerk, a Scot acused of great piracies on subjecys of the King of denmark. Anyone found helping Clerk was warned that they too would be charged with piracy. It is possible that this was the same John Clerk who had sen a testimonial from Denmark in 1571 responding to acusations made against him offering hostages for his realease, Weather him or not, Robert Stewart thereafter wrote to Fredrik II stating that he had been diligently seeking Clerk, nichnamed "Cair no man" after he had been informed that Clerk had been in Schetland about half a year.