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698 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
after Swedenborg’s death; and that Swedenborg did not mean his
father Carl Broman (who died in 1722), as is supposed by Dr. Kahl
in his “ Narratiunculæ ."
Carl Broman married Antoinetta Maria Stjerncrona, first cousin
of the Countess Gyllenborg who is mentioned in Note 115.
NOTE 114.
FRANZ JENNINGS.
Franz Jennings, a merchant and banker in Stockholm , who is
mentioned in Document 134, was born in Ireland in 1692. He
amassed a large fortune, was ennobled in 1743, and became a
councillor of Commerce in 1751. He died in 1754. He was associated
with Robert Finlay, who was also born in Ireland. With the firm
of Jennings and Finlay, which was continued after the death of
Jennings, Swedenborg had invested in 1759 the sum of 10,000 dalers
in copper at six per cent, as appears from Document 137. The
firm of Jennings and Finlay was much opposed by Nordencrantz,133
the Councillor of Commerce, and at the instigation of the latter a
Committee of the Swedish Diet was appointed to inquire into the
transactions of the said firm , and as to their influence in raising the
course of exchange. The revolution of 1772 put an end to this
committee; but Finlay left Sweden in consequence, and resided to
the end of his life at Bordeaux, in France.
NOTE 115.
COUNT FREDERIC GYLLENBORG.
Count Frederic Gyllenborg, a younger brother of Count Carl
Gyllenborg (see Note 87), was born in 1698. In the beginning
of his Journal for 1733 (see Section VIII), Swedenborg speaks
of him and Baron David Stjerncrona as his friends, and says: “On
May 10, 1733, I left Stockholm with my friends, Count Frederic
Gyllenborg and Baron David Stjerncrona and his relatives, Mr.
Gallus, and others who accompanied me to a place called Fithia."
Count Gyllenborg married Elisabeth Stjerncrona, sister of Baron
David Stjerncrona, and daughter of President Stjerncrona, who is
mentioned in the Spiritual Diary," nos. 4754 and 5899. At an
early age Frederic Gyllenborg became a page at the court of the
Queen Dowager, Hedvig Eleonora.64 In 1722 he became chamberlain
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