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the town ; and about fifty years later David Leyel or
Leijel also had the honour of being Borgmästare in 1731.
Gerner’s speech, long and laudatory, delivered on entering
upon his important office, may still be read in the old
minute-books. On the bench of the Rådmän or
Aider-men we find Mathis de Nääf (1661), Carl Feif, Jacob
Clerck, a notary and founder of the noble family of
Clerck, W. Guthrie, and others, whilst the names of
KrafFert, Maclier, Eller, Reid, Lockhart, appear in the list
of the forty-eight town-councillors.1 Another alderman of
Scottish parentage was Daniel Young, who established a
large weaving and cloth factory during the reign of
Charles X. (Gustavus). He was made a “ Kommerzieråd ”
in 1682, after having been ennobled in 1666, under the
new name of Leijonancker. He was buried in the Maria
Church of Stockholm. By his three wives he left no less
than thirty-two children—twenty-three sons and nine
daughters.
Quite a number of these Scotsmen in Stockholm, in the
XVIIth century, besides Feif, were ship-brokers and wealthy
men, Robert Rynd; W. Lindsay, who, when his name
was entered upon the roll of citizens in 1648, paid a sum of
thirty Thaler; John Primrose, who was enrolled in 1650 ;
and Alexander Waddel or Waddal, who persuaded the
Magistrates, in 1673, t0 Pen a petition to the king with
regard to several ships of his—one of which, called
Diamanten, had been bought in Edinburgh—that had been
taken off the coast of Holland by Scottish privateers. It
was indeed no easy matter in those days of political and
commercial insecurity to freight a ship, and numerous are
the complaints in consequence. Another Scotsman in
Stockholm, Thomas Tottie, hailing from Jedburgh, and
born in 1664, was a tobacco-manufacturer. He became the
1 Sec Embctsbok. R. A.
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