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year he was enrolled as a citizen of Stockholm, and had
to swear the customary oath of allegiance. In the same
year he was granted a percentage on all the imported
ox-hides, whilst in 1585 he is to receive as payment for
certain goods delivered a quantity of bacon and butter.1
In 1586 he brings an action against a certain Lehusen for
money due out of ship’s freights,2 whilst two years later 3
he appears as the accused, when another Lehusen charged
him with having unduly arrested certain moneys which
were to come to him out of the ship Star, taking God
to witness that to the best of his knowledge his brother
Zachæus, on whose behalf the arrest had been imposed,
had no part in the ship’s freight, “ not so much as a nail
is worth.” Thereupon the arrest is decreed cc löst,” i.e.
annulled. A further proof of the king’s favour he
received in 1589, when a ship of his had stranded off the
coast of Curland. The king then sent him a present of
five hundred Thaler.1
During the years 1589-99 Dundee’s name is never
absent from the list of the forty-eight u good men ” who
were annually elected to assist the Magistrates in their
deliberations.
In 1589 he and four other Scottish citizens of
Stockholm—“ährlige män,” honest men—appear as witnesses in
an action brought by Tomes Ogleby, citizen of Nyköping,
against a countryman of his, Andrew Concreor, “who is
said to be in Poland now.”4
Various other public functions were at other times
1 Riks A. Johanns III. Reg.
2 See Tankebok of 26th November 1586, and again of 10th January
1588. Rådhus Arkivet.
3 Riks A. Ibidem.
4 On the 2nd of May ; see Tankebok. The names of the other witnesses
are: William Davidson, Henrich Eller, Robbert Clemett, and Andreas
Lamiton.
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