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and as the trial moreover extends to over twenty closely
written folio-pages, it must suffice to state that in the
end Blasius invited Borgemaster and Councillors to his
house as his dinner-guests, and there certain incriminating
articles were in the presence of all committed to the
flames. Our surmise that his position as “Royal Merchant ”
included that of Royal banker is proved by certain
accounts, where the Crown pays him annual interest on
loans advanced.1
Once again, in the year 1616, his name appears in a
case against the heirs of a certain merchant named Leyel,
a case which was decided in his favour.2 Then the
curtain drops, and we hear no more of him. About
twenty years later Blasius Dundee, the younger, is
mentioned, but the old man had gone to his well-earned
and probably much-longed-for rest.
This is the Dundee as we find him in the old records :
something less than what Marryat maintains him to have
\een—a burgomaster of Stockholm,3—and a good deal
more than what the Swedish historians make him—the
humble owner of a bathing-establishment (badstuga) !
Another Scotch family, of the name of Pfeif or FeifF,
frequently appears in the old minute-books during the
next two or three generations in Stockholm. They
seem to have been two distinct families. The name Pfeif
also occurs in Greifswald in Pomerania, which, it must
be remembered, formed a province of Sweden until 1815.
There, as early as 1612, a Juris utriusque Doctor Johann
1 Kammer Arkivet (1614-16). 2 Rådhus Arkivet.
3 Horace Marryat, One Tear in Sweden, vol. ii. One of Dundee’s
daughters in 1604 married Peder Pedersson, afterwards ennobled as
Bergenfeldt; and the Brita Blasiidotter mentioned in 1626 in the St
Nicolai Kyrkas Vigselbok, i.e. Marriage Register (i. 33, note), is very
probably another of his daughters.
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