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a fastebref on a “ steenhus ” (stone-house) in Skepper
Olafs-grand (lane) ; Robert Smith, one of a feu in
Rysse-gränden, for 282 Thaler. Jacob Feif, in 1658, acquires a
house at the back of the Castle, then the fashionable
part of the town; Adam Leyel buys a “ tompt ” (a site)
for 2900 Thaler in 1681 ; Jacob Mesterton, another
Scotch merchant, owned a house in the Nygränd in 1662,
whilst Thos. Gipson sold a wooden house in 1623;
Hinrich Feif1 spends the large sum of 13,500 Thaler
Koppermynt on the purchase of a u steenhus.” It was in
a cheaper way that Jacob Anderson became the owner of
a house : it was presented to his wife for u long continued,
faithful services ” in the family of the famous Chancellor
Oxenstierna (1657).2
As to their domestic life, something has already been
said incidentally; though, of course, very little can be
gleaned out of public documents. The Stockholm Scots
were not in a position so favourable as that of their
countrymen at Danzig in Germany,3 where they had the
splendid Calvinistic Church of St Peter and Paul
peacefully to worship in, to have their children christened, to
get married, and finally to find their last resting-places.
In Sweden they seem to have attached themselves to the
Lutherans. Many of them were married in St Nicolai
or the Stor Kyrkan, among them Alexander Reid, a tailor,
in 1619 ; Jacob Feif and Thomas Glen, in 1626 and 1627 ;
W. Guthrie and Hans Primrose in 1644; Johannes
Laurinus, whose son was afterwards ennobled, and Count 1 2
1 He was a goldsmith and master of the guild (11696). His sons
were also goldsmiths. Cp. Af Klercker, GeneaL Sami. Kgl. Bibl.
Stockholm.
2 For the whole paragraph see Mag. Registratur volumes in the R. A.
8 Cf. The Scots in Germany and The Scots in Eastern and IVtstcrn
Prussia.
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