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Macleans, with their forty-two descents from some Irish
chieftain, who was part-owner of an ark at the time of Noah.
Suffice it to say that one Hans (John) Maclier, son of
Hector Maclean, fifth Baron of Dowart, came to Göteborg
in 1620, settled in business, and succeeded so well that
he became a town councillor (1640-1650). The
burial-list of the Christina church says of him that “he was
ennobled by his Majesty of Sweden in 1649 as Lord
of Gåsevadholm, Hageby, and Hammersöö, and by His
Majesty of England as Baronet of Dowart on account of
great good services rendered to both their Royal Majesties.
He lived till 1666.” He also acted as Royal Banker. In
the year 1635 he advanced the sum of 1150 thalers to
Queen Christina at a time when the Exchequer was
exhausted and new armaments were urgently required. His
intimate business connection with Charles II., King of
England, appears from several Royal letters,1 dated
respectively 24th Dec. 1650, 24th Feb. 1651, 19th March
1651, and 28th Dec. 1652. In the first of these the
King begs “ his trusted and well-beloved John Macklier ”
to hasten the sending of arms and ammunition, of which
he stood in great need “in this our sad condition of
Scotland.” This Maclier had already done in 1649, and
again in 1650, but each time his ships, the Unicorn
with twelve guns bound for France, and the King David
with twenty-four, and the Mary with twelve iron
cannons, were taken by the “Usurping Power,” and with
their cargoes confiscated by the sentence of the Admiralty.
The two latter ships had sailed, it appears, with a fleet
of Gothenburg ships which after strict examination were
set at liberty, whilst those of Maclier, “ only because they
belonged to an enemy of the Commonwealth,” were
1 See Biographica, Rikv. A. Maclier. These important letters are
given in the Supplement in extenso.
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