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A13218	A Short survey of the kingdome of Sweden containing a briefe description of all the provinces of this whole dominion, as also the riches of this kingdome, the antiquitie, nature, and manners of this nation, together with the government of this realme, might and power of this great king as well by sea as by land, his great officers, his customes, and reuenues of the crowne : a catalogue of many of the kings of Sweden, of those especially who have reigned these last five hundreth yeares, with some of their most memorable acts and deeds, with their alliance and issue or off-spring : something also more particularly concerning that illustrious invincible great Gustauus Adolphus the 2. and some of his most memorable acts since his comming to the crowne, as well before as since his entring Germany, untill this present yeare 1632.		1632 (1632)	STC 23517.5; ESTC S4930	50,849	110

plate and other mooveables unto the which neverthelesse the king may adde at his pleasure as he seeth occasion And whensoever the king permits any of his Court deserving subiects to any preferment he commonly assignes him a certaine number of country people who are esteemed as his vassalls and subiects and are to doe him homage and pay him tribute and certaine duties CHAP. VII Of the Kings of this countrey of Sweden with some of their chiefe and memorable Acts. MOst of the Northerne nations have time out of mind had their Kings by election as the Dane Swedish Polonian and Bohemian The kings of Sweden have beene untill of late yeeres electiue And although it was a matter of no small difficulty among barbarous nations where Mars was more honoured then Minerva and good literature the meanes to eternize heroicall worth scarce heard of in these remote regions to finde out any thing concerning their kings worth the writing yet have we the names of divers kings of that nation recorded of old howbeit a constant and continued succession without any interruption wee cannot reade of 1 In the first place then they tell us that Magog 1 King Magog sonne to Iaphet Noahs son the founder of the Scythian nation in Europe having passed over the Venedicke gulfe into Gothland by the Latines afterward called by the name of Scythia reigned over those people called Gete Others and that of the more learned ascribe rather the originall of the Goths to Gomer Iaphets eldest sonne and make those two nations Goths and Gete different and distinct nations 2 Vnto Magog as they write succeeded Swennus 2 Swennus from whom the nation tooke the name 3 Gethar 3 Gethar 4 Vbbo 4 Vbbo who as they write builded Vpsalia before Abraham was borne And from that time untill our Lord and Saviour they reckon up 35. kings and distinguish them all by their severall names and many of those for their sanctitie of life and conspicuous and eminent vertues were by the rude rimes of those dayes highly commended And besides these divers other kings are yet recorded to have reigned ouer those who under the command of one Berico for feare of intestine warre fled their owne countrey and among those mention is made of one king of the Getes in order 22 Colison by name to whom Augustus Cesar betroathed his daughter Iulia about the which time also Antonius demaunded his daughter in marriage as may cleerely appeare by Suetonius in the life of Augustus Moreover about the time of our Savior reigned Ericus the third surnamed Diserius who for his worth and merit attained to this government To this Ericus 40 Ericus the 3. succeded to the government of the Swedish nation 41 Godrichus 41 Goodrichus his sonne and next to him 42 Haldanus 42 Haldanus during the reigne of this king lived that monster of strength for the same cause called Starcherus who is said at singular combats to have killed that great champion Ham which afterwards gave denomination to that famous City Hamburg After those is a long catalogue of their kings recorded but nothing concerning their acts worth the reading recorded that nation then standing more upon the point of valour and honour then upon penning of them for posteritie But farre more fortunate have they beene in their forreine expeditions and transmigrations when as like a great deluge and inundation they overflowed a great part of the world under the names of Ostrogoths and Westrogoths and under the commandement of Theodoricus Attalariake Iotila Ataulphus c. whose martial and heroicall exploits the Romans highly advancing and lest they should conceale their owne worth have pub●ished to all posteritie Vnder Biorno 100 Biorno their 100 home-bred king Lewes sonne to Charles the great swaying the scepter of the Westerne Empire this nation of Sweden first received the Christian faith Sanctus Augerius a monke of Gorbey much furthering then this so worthy a worke Author est Ludolphus de Bebenburg in libro de zelo religionis Christianae CHAP. VIII 124 ERicus Sanctus 124 Ericus Sanctus 4. or the holy after whom the posteritie of Suercherus and Ericus by turnes with much contention as the one or the other grew strongest usurped the gouernment This pious Prince notwithstanding his great agnitie and pietie and paines taken in an expedition to convert the Finlanders to the faith had but a slender reward being bulled by a conspiracy of some of his Nobility Henry King of Denmarke and Magnus his sonne being the ring-leaders of this faction An. 1160. 125 Charles 125 Charles 7. sonne to Stercherus having raigned two yeeres during the raigne of Ericus over the Ostrogoths who in the election of a king dissenting from the Swedish had chosen one of their owne and afterwards for the space of 8. yeares very religiously and vertuously ouer both kingdomes but being now hated by reason of his friendship with the Dane was at length by Canutus sonne to S. Ericus being by some perswaded that this Charles with the helpe of the Dane had contriued his fathers death killed in in the Iland of Visnuga 1168. 126 Canutus 129 Canutus sonne to S. Ericus having done penance for killing king Charles and being by the discreet counsell of the Bishop of Lunden diverted from assailing the Dane dyes 1192. 127 Stercherus 117 Stercherus sonne to Charles a martiall man wise and eloquent itching for revenge on the posterity of Canutus having altered his former nature gathered great forces out of Denmarke was at length with his whole army utterly overthrowne and againe in another bloudy battle himselfe killed 1210. 128 Ericus 128 Ericus 3. sonne to Canutus having escaped Stercherus his hands raigned very prosperously for the space of 7. yeares the which 7 yeares histories mention to have been exceeding fruitfull but in the eight yere with the death of their king this fruitfulnes was also finished 1216. 129 Iohn 129 Iohn 1. sonne to Stercherus a very pious young man of exceeding great hopes dyed notwithstanding within three yeares after 1222. 130 Ericus Balbus 130 Ericus Balbus sonne to the nephew of S. Ericus Against him conspires his kinsman Folchingus expelling him out of his kingdome but within a short space the tyde turning he being killed he left Ericus the peaceable possession of the kingdome after this he converts his forces against the Tavastians sending against them the Prince of the Ostrogoths a man of very eminent vertues whom after hee had subdued and converted he dyes 1150. 131 Valdemarus by meanes of a valiant souldier Iuanus Blaa during his fathers absence was elected king The father being returned from this expedition against the Tavastians alledged that the crowne was rather due to himselfe then to his sonne but beeing terrified by the stout answer of this brave souldier who affirmed that he could shake a king of Sweden out of his ierkin if as Birgerus alledged there should want one to succeed he was

after which hee lost all hope of taking in these townes of the Vandals For his lust and other wickednesse the land was punished with pestilence and famine and afterwards having by sea lost his great treasures he had with him carryed out of the country at length in Denmarke hee dyed childlesse 1448. 139 Carolus Canuti 139 Carolus Canuti after this nation had been some yeeres without a king was by the Peeres of the land now loathing a forreine yoake crowned king 1458. After he was come to the crowne he subdued Norway and being afterwards invaded and assaulted by the Dane hee damnifies him exceedingly By reason of the insolency and misdemeanour of his governours and officers and by the instigation of the Archbishop of Vpsalia especially the people of the land rebelled and rose up in armes against him and in the meane time that he went to Dantzick for succour from the king of Poland they bring in and crowne Christiernus king of Denmarke But in the meane time Catillus Bishop of Lincopia and nephew to the Archbishop of a Prelate now becomes a man of warre and gathering together what forces he was able expells out of the kingdome both Christierne who kept no covenant nor yet performed any promise and all his favourers and adherents and at length in a memorable battle fought upon the ice overthrowes Christierne and puts his whole army to rout After this the Bishop calls the king home out of Prussia who being now returned and having againe recovered the peoples love and good will and growne now wiser to his cost he places over them such officers as might give them better content At length graced and adorned with as many worthy vertues as dayes and yeares in reigning dyes in 1470. After this Charles some reckon Christierne for 140. Iohn his sonne 141. and Christierne Iohns son 142. although others are of opinion they were titular kings onely and rather intruders then true kings and therefore the next shall be 140 Steno Sture 140. Steno Sture 1 sisters sonne to the aforesaid Charles not onely repelled Christierne and his army now approached neere unto the walls of Stockeholme but put both himselfe his whole army to flight and kept him from invading the countrey any more He subdued also afterward the same kings soone Iohn by meanes of some disagreement betwixt him and Swanto by the helpe of the Russians and some factious people brought in and crowned At length bringing backe the captive Queene to her husband Iohn being then in Smalandia having sickned at a feast dyed the 30. yeare of his reigne A great magnanimous and vertuous Prince but yet in this as it were exceeding himselfe in that hee refused the diademe royall being offered 141 Suanto 141 Suanto Prince of the Ostrogoths and a counseller of the kingdome was elected king of the Suetians Having made a confederacy with those of Lubecke he made warre against Christerne the second sonne to Iohn whom many for the hatred they bare to the sonne did earnestly desire against whom while as hee is making great preparation hee dyes 1512 and of his raigne the 8. He was a vertuous Prince liberall mild intermingled with a gratefull severitie 142 Steno Sture 142 Sbéno Sture 2 younger sonne of Suanto succeeded in the government This Prince by his prudence escaped the lying in wait of Christerne king of Denmarke having sent to the private conference whereunto he was solicited Gaddus and Gustavus Ericson Afterwards stoutly and valiantly opposing Christerne now come into the field with a very great army and himselfe valiantly fighting was at length shot thorow with a gunne He being now dead and the Swedish dispersed and scattered Christerne by the Nobles of the Danish faction was crowned king having at a banquet the very day of his coronation killed all the Nobility by him suspected to bee of the contrary faction But by reason of his extraordinary cruelty the same moneth he came was againe expelled the kingdome Now before we proceed to the orderly succession of the ensuing kings Something concerning the title the kings of Denmarke pretend to the crowne and kingdome of Sweden something may bee said concerning the king of Denmarke and the originall of the claime he layes to the crowne of Sweden Christierne the 1. of that name of whom something hath been said already the whole royall race of Denmark being now quite extinguished of an Earle of Oldenburg by the consent of the Peeres of the kingdome was elected king and installed in the throne Royall and that chiefly by the commendation of Adolphus of Holsasia his mothers brother and afterwards there arising some broyles and tumults in the kingdome of Sweden the factious of the kingdome of whom was chiefe Iohannes Benedictus Archbishop of Vpsalia having before reiected their naturall king Carolus Canutus and is the pretended right the Dane claimes to the kingdome of Sweden After his decease Iohn his sonne for the space of thirty two years continued king of Denmark He was in like manner by the factious Goths elected king of Sweden after they had reiected Steno the elder who had succeeded his mothers brother Charles but was in a short space after by Swanto being the meanes of Henningus Gaddus Bishop of Lincopia by the consent of the States of the land elected in the roome of Steno againe driven out and in many conflicts being still put to the worse at length fled into Denmarke This Suanto shortly after dying the Peeres of the kingdome after great altercation the Danish faction willing to set against him Ericus Trollus the memory of paternall worth and vertue prevailing made choice of Steno Sture the younger sonne of the aforesaid Suanto Two yeares after the death of Suanto Christierne the second succeeded in the kingdome of Denmarke Christierne the 2 invades the countrey of Sweden the greatest scourge that ever befell the kingdome of Sweden who presently resolves to prosecute the pretended right his father and grandfather had to this crowne Steno their new elected king seeing himselfe now as he thought setled in the peaceable possession of the kingdome giving too much eare to flatterers often too frequent in Princes Courts and by their evill counsel seduced committed many grosse and fowle faults in his government by which meanes there following an alienation of the minds of the Nobility he lost likewise at length the love of many of the commons also The Dane who left no wind unsailed to bring his purpose to passe thinking it now good fishing in a muddy water took eftsoone hold of this opportunity and gathering together a great army he begirt Stockeholme round about but Steno likewise with a great army opposing him raised the siege The wind in the meane time being contrary for his returne into Denmarke for the space of three moneths he was put to an extreame great strait for want of provision for his army Steno who used all possible meanes to winne his love and savour

the civill law but that by this controverted cases are far speedilier ended But before we speake any thing concerning their lawes we will premit some generalities In this kingdome therefore there are severall principall colledges or societies The whole government of this kingdome comprehended in certaine societies or colledges which comprehend the whole government of the same The first of these is called the Colledge of Iustice 1 Colledge or societie of Iustice in the wihch are three degrees or rankes the supreame the middle most and lowest of all In this supreame or highest ranke or order are the noble Senators of the kingdome in the next are such as they call Lagman and in Latin Nomophylaces as if we should say Recorders or Registers In the third ranke or order are the Iudges of particular cities or townes being men of good esteeme and of honest life and conversation and not unskilfull in the lawes of the land In this supreame court are iudged causes of the whole kingdome as well criminall as ciuill and to this supreame court the subiect may from any inferiour Court of the kingdome appeale whereas they determine and iudge whether the inferiour court hath iudged right or no and from this court there is no appeale unlesse it be to the king himselfe in whose power it is either to qualifie the punishment or to remit the offence Vnder this suprame court are immediatly subiected and subordinate two others that of criminall causes and that of the court or chamber The next to this colledge is the colledge of war wherein are handled all Martiall or Military affaires and is called the Court marshall or martiall 2 Colledge or societie is that of warre or court Marshall To this court belongs the Councell of War wherein are all military matters deliberated and discussed and over this court presides the great Marshall of the kingdome His office is when the king cannot be present in his owne person as generall to command over the whole army This great officer hath with him ioyned diuers other associates and collegues amongst whom is chiefly he whom they call Riick-scirs Siigmeister as much to say as master of the Ordnance Besides there is also a field marshall and under him many other commanders both of the horse and foot forces The third colledge or court is that of the Chancerie 3 Colledge the court of the Chancery in which are handled all manner of causes both civill and ecclesiasticall In this Court presides the Lord Chancellour of the kingdome The Lord Chancellours office who hath the chiefe charge of the broad seale receiveth and readeth all letters sent to the king and dispatcheth answers Besides in the counsell he propoundeth such heads as they are to consult about and withall he hath the charge of setting downe and publishing all Proclamations all decrees and acts of Parliament Hee is also Iudge of al private complaints and appeales from inferiour courts to the King and finally he hath the oversight of all the Secretaries Clerkes Religious persons and ecclesiasticall ceremonies and all controversies and negotiations with forreine Princes war peace and truce receiving messages from forreine Ambassadors and dispatching their answers This great officer hath ioyned with him for associates or collegues a Vice-chancellour and divers counsellers of the Chancerie besides the kings Secretaries with divers others The fourth Colledge or Court is that of the Admiraltie 4 Colledge the Admirall court over which is the great Lord Admirall whose office is to oversee the Navy royall and to see that it be in a readinesse with all things thereto belonging against the time of need He hath under him a Vice-admirall besides Captaines and Commanders of every ship To his court belong all causes concerning trespasses against constitutions made for the preservation of the Navy-royal and many other things concerning maritime affaires The fifth and last is the Exchequer 5 Colledge is the Exchequer or as the French call it the chamber of accounts where are received all the revenues belonging to the crowne tributes customes subsidies c. Over this Court presides the Lord Treasurer of the kingdome who hath also ioyned with him in commission two others of the Nobility and to this court belong also a number of clerks who are chosen out of the inferiour ranke of people He hath also under his custodie the royall ensignes of the kingdome the apple the crowne the scepter and the sword He payes also all the kings armie and so doth hee all the kings servants their wages In a word hee takes all and payes all being accomptable to no body but to the king himselfe Amongst all the great officers of the kingdome the Lord Marshall is accounted the chiefe The Lord Marshals office being master of the kings houshold and administrator or orderer of the great counsell who by the kings authority hath power to assemble the whole States of the land to command silence and attention to give leave to speake in Parliament to welcome ofrreine Embassadours and to provide things necessary for their entertainment To his office also it belongeth to remove out of the counsell such as belong not thereunto and to see the kings decrees concerning matters of defamation and punishment of death duly put in execution Hee supplyes also the place of the master of the ceremonies and suppresseth all tumults and disorders To him belongeth also the oversight of the kings houshold and domesticall servants and to correct the offenders And finally in all publike meetings he beares the great staffe before the king Next unto him in dignitie is esteemed the great Lord Constable the field Marshall the great Sewer the Lord Chamberlaine c. Particular division of he Provinces into smaller parts Moreover this whole kingdome is not onely divided into severall Provinces Duchies and Counties but besides each Province is againe subdivided into certaine territories or iurisdictions commonly called Haradh of the which some containe moe and some fewer parishes Each Province againe hath its governor or lieutenant called Landz-herren Severall Iudges or State-haller and each territorie or iurisdiction hath a Iudge called Leensman and besides each parish hath a Iudge called Nembdarius or Nembdemannus Now all these are distinct offices and subordinate one to another and so may the plantife appeale from one inferiour court to a next superiour in due order and forme The supreame governour or magistrate of the Province is called Legifer The supreame Iudge Legifer as it were a law-giver and iudge and are esteemed in dignity next unto the king as being his iudges and uice-gerents Now as many as are the Provinces as many are there of these supreame iudges to eleven under whom are againe above 300. Vicounties or particular iurisdictions not unlike the courts of Parliament of France and the multitude of presidiall courts But the difference is that these supreame Iudges visit every yeare a great part of their Province untill

contented to be his sonnes governour wherein he discharged himselfe very worthily But by the fathers death 131 Valdemarus this young king being now left to himselfe by the perswasion of his wife being a Dane hee deales very harshly with his owne brothers untill at length he was taken prisoner by his brother Magnus being therein borne out by the Swedish themselves and was also shortly after by the Peeres of the kingdome deprived of the kingdome of Gothland which his brothers kindnesse had hitherto suffered him to enioy 132 Magnus Ladolos 132 Magnus Ladolos 1. in the yeare 1276. succeeded his brother Valdemarus by the Danes meanes notwithstanding not ceasing still to molest him yet after a once or twice dissembled reconciliation at length by the captivitie of Valdemarus the controversie was composed Hee much wronged himselfe in setting strangers the Danes especially over the affaires of the kingdome for at a friendly feast as he supposed the Danes not regarding sacred hospitality tooke him prisoner And besides he drew upon himselfe the implacable hatred of the whole Swedish nation but principally of the family of Folchingus against whom he bare a great grudge and therefore having cunningly under the color of friendship invited them to a feast he murdered those of chiefe note and almost extinguished the whole race of Folchingus But towards the latter end of his life he much reformed his former carriage giving himselfe wholly to Gods worship and service dyed in the I le of Visingia having left his sonne to succeed him and Turgillus Canuti to be his governour and guide 133 Birgerus 133 Birgerus sonne to Magnus a dishonour both to himselfe and the whole Swedish nation the ruine and overthrow of his owne brethren a prodigious and unnaturall part the beginning of his raigne having promised better proceedings after the reiecting of Turgillus his cruell nature began to discover it selfe For having at first accused his brethren of treason hee afterwards by force of armes assaulted them by whom being first taken prisoner after a counterfeit reconciliation having invited them to a feast he layes violent hands on them thrusts them into a dungeon there to dye of famine and lest there should be any hope of succour throwes the key into a deepe river running hard by The which barbarous and inhumane crueltie being odious both to the Swedish and Gothish nation they tooke armes and expelled him out of the kingdome who together with his wife died miserably in Denmarke 134 Magnus Smech 134. Magnus Smech 2 sonne to Ericus slaine by his brother Birgerus in the yeere 1319. succeeded in the government who no whit terrified by his Vncles example trod still in the same footsteps in so much that for his contempt of religion prodigious lust and barbarous cruelty he was called a robber or spoyler Predo which was the elogie he purchased to himselfe making a shew that he would admit of his sonne Ericus for a consort in his government secretly subornes one to kill him which being prevented yet his owne mother Blanca a French woman poysons him Being taken prisoner by Haguinus the second king of Norway but presently againe let goe he flyes into Denmarke and causing intercept his sonnes spouse Dutches of Holstein by force obtrudes upon him Margaret the Danes daughter and in the meane time while he is a providing great forces against his subiects hee thunders out proscription against them 135 But in the meane time Albert of Meckelburg 135. Albert of Meckleburge nephew to Magnus by his sister is by the proscribed Nobles elected king and shortly after at Stockeholme confirmed Being now setled in the throne royall he proffers agreement to Magnus who refusing the same and being all for warre was at length taken prisoner and so kept close for the space of whole seven yeeres untill he was by his sonne Haguinus released After this being returned from a Parliament held at Wismare he began to contemne despise his subiects of whom in requitall he was as little regarded whom now they could not endure He was shortly after intangled in warre against Queene Margaret to whose side some did encline wherein he was taken prisoner and deteined captive whole seven yeares and at length forced to release his subiects of their oath of fidelitie 236 Margaret the Dane ●36 Margaret the Dane and wife to Haguin king of Norway was now in the yeare 1395 Queene of three kingdomes a woman indeede of a high and magnanimous spirit if shee had bent her will the right way vertuous designe had beene the utmost end she aymed at But she making no more account of any oath shee had sworne whereunto notwithstanding shee was very forward then of childrens sport with insatiable covetousnesse spoyling all and delivering up the Castles and strong holds of the kingdome into the hands of strangers being extreamly hated of the Swedish fled into Denmarke after she had by terrors and threatnings obtained the kingdome for one Ericus her own sisters sonne a young man about twenty foure yeares of age When she was admonished that shee should not commit the custody of the forts and castles of the kingdome into strangers hands it was her answer keepe you well your evidences and I will have a care to keepe your castles She dyed and was buried at Flensburg An. 1412. 137 Ericus Duke of Pomerania 137 Ericus Duke of Pomerania 7. did too much rellish of the persidious practises of his aunt keeping no covenant vexing the Nobility with with warre spoyling and impoverishing his subiects at home and marring all commerce abroad was therefore opposed by Eugelberius of a Noble and Princely family and he by Danish treachery being supplanted Carolus Canuti took upon him the government of the Realme Having fled into Denmarke and at length odious also to the Dane sometimes attempting and sometimes againe despairing of his returne in his kingdome which not withstanding upon keeping of covenant was still ready to receive him at length in his returne hee tooke in Gothland whereby he might the more easily robbe all the ships sailing towards the North. But beeing at length by Carolus Canuti besieged and now not daring trust the Danes hee fled into his owne countrey of Pomerania and there spent the rest of his dayes in peace and quietnesse Anno 1487. 138 Christopherus Prince Palatine of Rhene and Duke of Bavaria 138 Christopherus Prince of Palatine of R●e●● and Duke of Bavaria and sisters sonne to Ericus against whom by the Danes meanes he was inticed to come and yet not without great doubting and deliberation and the Danes great commendation would the Peeres give their assent to his election The faire sunne-shine of the beginning of this Princes reigne were eft soone by the Swedish supplanting one another overclo uded Hee had once a conflict with the English wherein he had the better and afterwards labouring to take in Lubecke and being disappointed of his purpose he suffered shipwracke on the Swedish shore

takes himselfe wife and whole family prisoners in a towne of Finland called Ako brings them all with him to Stockeholme where having first openly accused him he cast him into prison where he continued for the space of foure whole yeares besides that he put to death many of his familiar friends and acquaintance But at the foure yeares end the case is quite altered his brother finding a meanes to free himselfe out of prison takes his brother captive and makes him drinke of the same cup he had before made him begin with keeping him in close prison during his whole life time 1568. 145 Ericus thus iustly thrust out of his throne 145 Iohn 2. his brother was with the unanimous free and generall consent of the whole State elected king in his brothers turne During his reigne he had also great war with but especially with the Dane the Muscovite or Russian He was born 1537. and crowned 1569 He marryed first Katharine daughter to Sigismund king of Poland by whom he had 1. Sigismund now king of Poland 2. Anne After this Queenes decease he marryed one Gunila daughter to one Axelurs Bielke de Hereseter a noble Knight and governour of Ostrogothia whom he marryed 1585. and by whom he had 1 Iohn who in the yeare 1612. married Mary Elizabeth daughter to Charles the 9. King of Sweden 2 Charles borne 1550 first Duke of Sudermania Neriva and Vermelandia and afterwards also elected king of Sweden This king Iohn constantly maintained the same religion of the Augustane confession which his father had formerly professed although underhand he suffered his sonne Sigismund by his mother Katharine to be educated in the Romish religion which cost him no lesse then the losse of his kingdome of Sweden as hereafter shall appeare And the better to secure his subiects of his constant perseverance in the religion he professed he gave them his brother Charles Duke of Finland whom he loved dearely for a pledge or pawne that no innovation should therein be attempted whom he also appointed by his last will and testament during his sonnes absence to be gouernour of the whole kingdome This king dyed in the yeare 1592 19. of November 146 Sigismundus 246 Sigismundus sonne to the aforesaid Iohn being before during his fathers life time in 1590 beene designed and appointed king of Poland being during his fathers life time elected king of Poland where he also lived and reigned at the time of his fathers death was in the yeare 1599 crowned king of Sweden and the very day of the Epiphanie was appointed for this purpose Now there was in the kings company one Franciscus mala spina Bishop of Vrlia in Italy the Popes Nuncio whom the king and his followers much desired to performe the solemne rites of the Coronation and this Prelate was of opinion that if the States of Sweden had once given way to this beginning the Romish religion might more easily afterwards be againe introduced But against this with might and maine did Adamus Andracanus then Archbishop of Vpsalia oppose affirming that it was flat against the lawes and constitutions of the kingdome that any other but the Archbishop of Vpsalia should set the diademe royall upon his head and besides that he must now sweare to maintaine that religion now professed within the kingdome of Sweden according to the Augustane confession exhibited to Charles the fift Emperour professed by his grandfather Gustavus and his owne father Iohn the 3. and by a late synod holden at Vpsalia by the whole States of the kingdome confirmed and that he shall not assigne or grant any Church or Churches in any towne of Sweden to any other religion then that of the Augustane confession And further that during the time of his abode in Sweden he should be contented with the service performed within the private chapell of his owne palace Against this did oppose the peeres and Nobles of poland that accompanied the king howbeit the peeres of Sweden were resolute in their purpose insomuch that some dayes were thus spent in alteration At length about mid Ianuary seeing no remedy it was agreed that the bishop of Vpsalia should performe such rites as belonged to the coronation which was accordingly performed The oath of Sigismund Ericus Sparce also Chancellour of the kingdome administred unto the king his solemne oath he reciprocally answering him and promising first that he would maintaine iustice and truth within his kingdome and that he would punish and suppresse all iniustice and lying that he would doe iustice to all the Swedish nation as well rich as poore and that according to the lawes and statutes of the kingdome he should governe the same and that by the counsell and consent of his brother Prince Charles and the senate or counsell of the kingdome that hee shall consult with the natural inhabitants of the kingdome and not with strangers that hee shall bring no strangers within the realme that hee shall commit the castles and forts of the kingdome and the deserts of Vpsalia to none but the natiues of the countrey that he shall impose no new tribute or taxe upon the subiect unlesse in case of great necessitie for the defence of the kingdome in feare of any intestine commotion or sedition when the kings sonne or daughter is to be marryed when the king is to make any solemne perambulation thorow his whole kingdome or something for the reparation of the desarts of Vpsalia shall be required Moreover that he should confirme all priviledges and immunities heretofore granted to the Peeres of the land the whole people and the clergie thereof and that by all meanes possible he should procure peace and tranquillitie to all his subiects adding lastly this clause to the oath So God be good to my soule and body as I from my heart sweare to observe all the premisses After this was a solemn assembly of the whole States of the kingdome or a Parliament called at Stockeholme wherein was consulted of the government of the kingdome during the kings absence and divers good and wholesome lawes enacted In the moneth of Iuly next after the king departed againe into Poland But some few yeares after Abdication of king Sigismund hee was by the same States againe abdicated and quite reiected from ever having any right or interest in the government of the kingdome of Sweden and was in a Parliament holden at Stockeholme 1590. confirmed And againe in another Parliament holden at Lincopia 1600. as well he himselfe as all his issue and off-spring are for ever excluded from the succession to the kingdome of Sweden The reasons were diuers but especially for sending an army of strangers into the countrey quite contrary to his oath and promise the which if their plot had taken effect might have overthrowne the whole State besides the ruine of religion There were divers other causes published in print as the story mentions the which I have not as yet seene But withall in the