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Pfeif1 is mentioned, whose son afterwards became Bishop
of Revel, after he had for some time acted as pastor to
the German Church at Stockholm. The other Feiffs
settled in Sweden and took to commerce. Many a page
in the old minute-books of the Town Hall is filled with
their doings, the more so since they proved as litigious as
any Irishman can be supposed to be. There were three
brothers—Jacob, David,1 2 and Donald ;3 the latter,
constantly called Donat, was a goldsmith and banker, and
acquired citizen’s rights in 1633. They were well-to-do
and public-spirited men; for more than twenty years
Jacob’s name is among the forty-eight town-councillors,
often together with his youngest brother. In 1629 he
is, together with two other Scotsmen,4 a member of a
deputation which was to complain to the Riks-Råd of
the usury of a certain Wilshusen, who sold Hungarian
Gulden and Riks-dollars at an exorbitant profit. On that
occasion he urged the necessity of fixing the standard
value of the Thaler. A year later, as one of the
Directors of the Shipping Company,5 he applies for a
1 Vitit Pomeranorunty a most valuable collection of rare pamphlets,
vol. 152. A grandson of his was ennobled in Sweden, and his son
was raised to the rank of a baron. See Anrep, Sv. Attar Tatler.
2 David seems to have suffered losses. In the year 1647 he is
arrested for debt, and his “stall” (Krambude) closed. Westing Sami,
Bibl. Upsala.
8 Donald was accused of adultery in 1654, but received a reprieve.
4 The other two were Jacob Forbus and George Gern, S. Sv. Riksråds
Protokoll. When, in 1640, the merchants of Stockholm were again
asked their opinion with regard to certain changes in the coinage, there
were, out of a deputation to the Riksråd of twelve, no less than four
Scotsmen: Anders Boy, David Feif, Alb. Rind, and Jacob Maclier.
5 The Shipping Company was originally started by the Swedish towns
at their expense and risk. The ships of the Company were therefore
called Städarnas Skepp = Towns’ Ships. See Sv. Riksråds Protokolly
1630.
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