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Scotland on the nth of October, 1602, his parents being
Walter Guthrie and Agneta Greig or Grieg. The father
set out with his family for Sweden and arrived in 1614
at Stockholm where a brother of his, Walter, had settled
as a merchant. There the boy was taken care of by a rich
Scottish merchant named Findeloo (Findlay ?), who lived
childless at Hedemora, and who tried to teach his young
countryman the rudiments of business. But owing to
the unbearable extortion of the old man, Jacobus left his
master; and, expressing a great predilection for the life of
a scholar, he was fortunate enough to find friends who
enabled him to indulge it. He first went to Örebro,
where the famous Rudbeckius became his teacher;
afterwards he visited the High School at Vesterås. Having
finished his theological studies at Upsala, he took his
M.A. degree in 1630, but declined the head-mastership
of Hedemora School. After a visit to his relations
in Scotland, he was on his return offered the
head-master-ship of Vesterås, his Lutheran orthodoxy having in
the meantime been demanded and ascertained. In 1638
he was appointed clergyman at Sala, in 1648 at Juna.
He died on the 20th of June, 1661.1
Another Guthrie, Johannes, who was born at Arbroath
on the 13th of February, 1662, came to Stockholm in
1680, studied at Wittenberg, where he took his degree,
publicly adopted the Lutheran doctrine, and became first
clergyman at Clara Church, then minister of Elfkarleby,
and lastly clergyman of the Ulrika Eleonoras Church
of Stockholm (1716). He died in 1724.2 1 2
1 He married in 1633 the daughter of the Dean of Gefle. Some of
his sermons and academical “ disputationes ” have been printed (Dejinitio
virtutis moralis, 1631). See Munektell, l.c., ii. 395.
2 Of his writings two rather interesting essays deserve to be
mentioned : De Britannia Magna speciatim Anglia et Scotia gessis et moribus
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