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u plåtar,” i.e. koppar plates, which at that time took the
place of money. But the old man refused, returned the
proffered sum after he had considered the matter for
a week, and allowed his son Casten to care for him as long
as he lived.1 The latter left four sons; Peter, William,
Johann, and Arvid (or Anders ?), and one daughter, Anne,
who sues her brothers for her part of the patrimony.1 2 But
there is a whole bevy of Feifs besides.3 They were a
prolific race, like many of the Scots in foreign countries.
Well might old Alexander Fyfe of quiet Montrose, and
his wife, Jeaneta Rynd, have wondered, if they could have
come to life again, to see one of their descendants a friend
and councillor of the great Swedish King Charles XII.,
and two others the founders of two noble families in
Sweden, the Adlerstolpes and Ehrensparres.4
Around these two names, Dundee and Feiff, are gathered
a number of other eminent Scots. There was Andrew
Boy—later Boij—who became “ Borgmästare ” of
Stockholm in 1663, and whose son Anton was ennobled in
1678 for having considerably increased the revenues of
the Crown by his able and intelligent management of the
Swedish mines at Falun. There was Andrew Gerner, son
of Albrecht (?) Gerner, a rich merchant, and Mary Watson,
who for six or seven years filled the highest civic office of
1 Kgl. Bihl. Stockholm ; Af Klercker’s Geneal. Sami.
2 Protokoll, R. A., 1665.
3 The name of Alexander Feif occurs in 1670. Carl Feif was a
lawyer and a town-councillor in 1683 » J* Feif was an architect; Elias
Feif, a wainwright. Cp. Schering-Rosenhane, Relation öfoer Stockholm.
R. A.
4 Casten Feif, the right hand of Charles XII., descended from Jacob’s
son Peter, a “ Krydd-kramer,” i.e. druggist, who had his shop where
now the Hotel Rydberg stands. He died in 1739. The Adlerstolpe
and Ehrensparre families descended from Donat. They are both extinct
now, while the Pfeifs still continue to flourish in Sweden.
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