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as late as 1748 several clergymen of the town were
punished because they had used the rites of the Lutheran
Church at the funeral of “‘åtskilliga (several)
Engelsmän.”!
Under these circumstances it would appear very natural
that in 1747 Colin Campbell, a Scot of some influence who
had settled as a merchant in Göteborg, should petition the
Consistory for the loan of a large hall of the High School
in order to have a suitable place of worship for the
Presbyterians. The petition, however, was refused.2
Barring these little frictions, the life of the Scots in
Göteborg seems to have been very peaceful. They married
among their “ ain folk ” as long as the supply lasted ; they
were unwearied in acting as godfathers or godmothers
at the christening of the “ bairns ” of their countrymen.3
With all this characteristic clannishness, which, as we
noticed elsewhere, was also a feature in Danzig and
Königsberg and wherever the Scots settled in larger
numbers in the North of Germany, the little colony at
Göteborg showed no lack of interest in the welfare of their
adopted country. In April 1697, u borgemäster ” (mayor)
Andrew Spalding, at a meeting of the Town Council,
referred to the neglected and filthy condition of the streets.
1 W. Berg, Samlingar, etc., iv. I 54.
2 Berg adds: “We need not say that this petition was negatived; it
was more wonderful that it should have been sent 99 (!), iii. 2, 697. *
3 The church-books of the Christina Kyrka or the Tyska Kyrka, one
of the foremost sources of information regarding the Scots in Göteborg,
give numerous examples of this. For instance, in 1670 a son of John
Maglier is christened ; godfather and godmother: Capt. G. Maclier and
Catharine Gordon; in 1671 a daughter of the same father; godfather
and godmothers : Catharine Gordon, William Gordon, and Anne Senckler
(Sinclair) ; at the christening of Andrew, son of Dan. Croquet (Crocket),
President Maclier, Alex Kinnaird, and M. Thornton undertake the office,
and so forth. The entries in the church-books from 1624-1725 were
printed by Berg in his Samlingar.
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