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after his native place, according to the fashion among the
learned in those days. Once, so the story goes, he saved
Charles XI.’s life by hiding him up in a chimney at
Åhus during a sudden incursion of the Danes. We are
told that Rönnow was promoted to Örebro, and Åhus
became a “majorat ” in the Rönnow family.1
Next to Dunbar we find John Innes or Ennes, as he is
called. He was born about the year 1600, had to fly
from Emden on account of religious persecution, and
finally settled in the Swedish town of Helsingborg, where
he gained great wealth and honour. In 1662 a memorial
was erected to his memory in the church there, behind
the pulpit.2 It consists of a large painting by a Dutch
master, and represents the donor and his family, and above
it Christ on the Mount of Olives. One of his sons
became a merchant in Malmö, the other in Gefle, where
he obtained an influential position on account of his
wealth.
Other Scottish merchants were Arvid Young, in Borås
(t in 1708). From him the noble family of the
Ceder-sparres derive their descent. John Hython (Hutton?)
from Berwick settled as a köpman in Norköping, Bengtson
in Westerwiik. The latter became the founder of the
now extinct family of Westenhjelm. Besides these we
must not forget four other borgmäster (mayors) : Richard
Lichton in Ystad about the year 1620, Thomas
Clerck in Örebro, and two Lesles, Christian and David,
father and son, the former Mayor of Landskrona, the
latter of Westerwik (1684-1743). In Norköping we
find Jacob Spalding settled as a merchant (1668), and
much later—about 1850—Gustav Magnus Stuart; in
Falun, one of the numerous Guthries (or Guthries).
It now remains to glance at the commercial relations
1 See H. Marryat, One Tear in Sweden, i. 83. 2 Ibid.
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