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prefer safer ground. Fortunately the old uTankeboks”
and minute-books of the various Stockholm Archives are
full of the presence of the Scot.
Already in the year 1568 a Scot named Johan Macfassun
appeared before the Magistrates assembled in the Town
Hall of Stockholm and declared that he had sold his house
in Leith to a certain Richardson, a countryman of his.
The name of Leith is written Leicht. The house is
described as situated between that of William Foster or
Forster and that of Archibald Penicuik. The price paid
for it was three hundred German Thaler.1
One of the names oftenest mentioned in the records of
the time is that of Blasius Dundee or Dundi.* 1 2
We first come across his name in 1575. At that time
he was already a well-to-do, enterprising, and energetic
merchant, and not merely the miserable owner of a
u badstuga.” He enjoyed the confidence of his
fellow-citizens. He also seems to have been a sort of purveyor
to the Court and the army. On the 20th of December,
the king allows him several tuns of butter out of the
Royal Warehouse at Calmar as payment for certain goods
furnished.3
Two years later, on a cold December day, there appeared
before the Borgmästare and the Magistrates assembled in
the Rådhus (Town Hall) of Stockholm two Scotsmen—
Blasius2 Dundee and Hans Anderson, relating how last
Tait family is similar to the one given above, at least in the earliest
occurrence of a seal of James Tait attached to a Peebles charter. This shows
a stag’s head cabossed, on a chief three stars.
1 Tankebok, R. A. See letter in the Appendix.
2 That the part of Stockholm called Blasiholm should have been named
after Blasius Dundee may perhaps be doubted, for his eminence does not
after all seem to have been such as to warrant this name being given to it
more than fifty years after his death.
3 Riks A. Johanns III. Reg.
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