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state subvention for seven of the company’s ships lying
in harbour ready to sail for Spain and France. This
time he was accompanied by the famous Cablian, the
Director-General of the Trading Company.
In 1647 he is entrusted with the office of Inspector of
the Poor-House and the Children’s Hospital;1 he is an
“ alderman ” in the Guild of Brewers, and frequently has
to act as guardian. How much his services on such
occasions were valued is shown by the testimony of
Colonel Moritz Duval—one of the many Macdougals we
shall have to notice in another part of this book—who,
in a letter deposited with the Magistrates on the 4th of
November 1650, writes : a I, Moritz Duval of Broby, make
it known herewith that both I and my wife have received
accounts and payments from our dear brother-in-law
Jacob Feiff, out of the patrimony of my wife, to our full
satisfaction. He has been her guardian, and we
acknowledge to him and his heirs for ever that we have got
the last penny as well as the first he has had in his hands
from him. We thank him in the heartiest manner for
his administration, and desire the Magistrates both to
approve of this receipt and to have it entered in the
minute-book. Our representative must also give our
brother-in-law 1 handsträckning ’ (i.e. corroboration by a
shake of hands) according to the law, if he should demand
it. To show this to be true, we have both of us signed
this paper and put our seal to it.” 2
Curiously enough, Jacob Feiff, like his
fellow-countryman Dundee, was not a happy married man. He also—in
1649—hacl to come before the court and complain of the
infidelity of his wife, Elsa Grundell, whom, a fair widow
1 See Embetsbok, which contains the lists of men who held public
offices in the town of Stockholm.
2 Protokoll R. A.
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