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same manner if Y.M. should send soldiers here to be
quartered for a time, and if we should ask the Scots to take
them in, they would refuse and say they could not afford
it, though they have both property and money. But they
will rather leave the town and go elsewhere, which has
happened and still does happen. To these aggrievements
we must add that the citizens in this town, both Danish
and German, grievously complain that the Scots outbid
poor citizens, that have paid their taxes regularly, when
there are houses in the market, offering the double or
triple sum in Joachims, taler, or Danish coin for them.
They also, when they have possession of a house, prevent
the poor burghers of the town from acquiring it for
honest money. On account of all this wrong, and for
many other matters which we cannot just now explain to
Y.M., the instant prayer of all of us is, that Y.M. will
prevent these stranger Scots, whenever they try to intrude
themselves into our towns, from wishing to acquire citizen’s
rights, to the great loss of Y.M.’s trading-places.”1
As to the number of Scots in Malmö during the XVIth
century, we have no direct information. Scottish names
occur already in 1518 and 1519 in the account-books of
the town, amongst them a “ Maxfell.”
About a century later, in 1635, the magistrates of the
capital city of Stockholm also mention with great
indignation the Scottish udräng” or non-journeymen,
who “did oust all native competition.” “ All the best
trade they draw to themselves,” they say.2
In spite of these prohibitive measures the Scots in
Sweden increased in numbers.
Naturally the Scottish trade took the shortest route,
1 Malmö Stads Arkivet.
2 See Schering Rosenhane, Relation öfver Stockholm, p. 84. Very
likely the following passage in the Sv. Riksrådets Prot. (x. 366)
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