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sisted of grain, reckoning the ton at nine-marks silver money.
This I was obliged to sell to the Reval citizens, since we
are not allowed to sell it to strangers or to export it by
sea, and so it happens, the citizens of Reval fixing the
price of grain at their pleasure, that people receive only
half of what Y. R. M. in his grace have ordained.
To bring this before Y. M. I have been all the more
compelled, since in the year just past (1671) two hundred
Thaler have been taken off my stipend.
a I therefore pray Y. M. most humbly to consider my
case, and to graciously promote the due payment of the
means of my living, and 1 shall always consider myself
bound, and willingly bound, to serve Y. M. with my
sincerest prayer and my most loyal obedience.—
Y. R. M.’s most humble and obedient servant,
“J. Jakob Pfeiff.”
The Murray families—partly hailing from Perth, partly
from Montrose—have had a most interesting history in
Sweden as well as in Germany. They descended from
merchants, and the members mostly devoted themselves
to the civil professions. The first learned Murray wha
came to Sweden was Andreas, son of J. Murray of
Memel in the north-east of Prussia, where, as we have
showed in our former books on the subject, the colonies
of Scottish merchants were particularly numerous. He
was born on the 9th of August 1695,1 and went to the
University of Königsberg when fifteen. Here he occupied
himself with philosophical and theological studies, with an
energy and precocity which characterised all the Murrays.
Having taken part in several public u disputationes,”
he removed to Jena in 1715, took his degree of Master of
1 See Strodtmann, Geschichte der jezt lebenden Gelchrten (scholars)
xii. 316 ff.
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