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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64873	The history of the revolutions in Sweden occasioned by the change of religion and alteration of the government in that kingdom / written originally in French by the Abbot Vertat ; printed the last year at Paris, and now done into English by J. Mitchel ... ; with a map of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.; Histoire des révolutions de Suède. English	Vertot, Abbé de, 1655-1735.; Mitchel, J. (John)	1696 (1696)	Wing V273; ESTC R1529	219,797	358

were always ready to promote the Interests of Denmark help'd him to bear the mortifying News of the Election of a new Administrator And he imagin'd that by the Assistance of the Swedish Clergy he might obtain an easie Victory over a Prince whose Authority was not yet firmly establish'd He wrote with his own hand to that young Prelate to congratulate his late Advancement and sent him a considerable Sum of Money as a Token of his Friendship Trolle was consecrated at Rome and receiv'd the Pallium from Pope Leo X. In his return to Sweden he pass'd by Lubeck which at that time was the principal and most potent City of all the Hanse-Towns and had engross'd the whole Trade of the Northern Kingdoms There he sound a Gentleman whom King Christiern had sent to engage him in his Party The Danish Minister who was acquainted with his Master's most secret Designs after he had deliver'd his Credentials told the Archbishop in the King's Name that His Majesty cou'd not forbear taking this occasion to repeat the Assurances of his Friendship and that he hop'd to see the Union of Calmar reviv'd by his Assistance and by the Interest and Power to which the Dignity of his Office gave him so just a Title Trolle was not ignorant of the Interest and Inclination of his Family and both his Father and the old Archbishop had taken care to engage him in their Faction He told the Gentleman that he was fully perswaded of the Justice of his Master's Pretensions to the Crown of Sweden and pray'd him to assure that Prince in his Name that he was very sensible of the Obligations which the Consideration both of his Office and Family laid upon him to promote the Danish Interest and that as soon as he had taken Possession of his Archbishoprick he wou'd endeavour to give His Majesty the most convincing Marks of his Zeal and Affection to his Service He had afterwards several private Conferences with King Christiern's Agent during his abode at Lubeck The Dane finding him to be of a haughty and imperious Temper and extreamly proud of his new Dignity and of the Grandeur of his Family resolv'd to attack him on the weak side and to make him an Enemy to the Administrator as well as a Friend to the King of Denmark He insinuated with a great deal of Art that he was oblig'd in Justice to himself and to the Honor of his Family to resent the Affront that was put upon his Father and added That he cou'd never believe that a Person of his Merit wou'd tamely bear the Arrogancy of an Insolent Youth He represented to him afterwards That the Election of an Administrator was a late Invention of the Nobility to elude the Treaty of Calmar That by this means the Kings of Denmark were depriv'd of their undoubted Right to the Crown of Swedon and the Prelates of that Kingdom excluded from the Share which those Princes allow'd 'em in the Government Then finding that his Discourse had made a considerable Impression on the Archbishop's Mind he added as it were to comfort him after such Melancholy Reflexions That in all probability the young Administrator wou'd not continue long in the Possession of his Dignity That the King his Master was resolv'd to insist upon the Execution of the Treaty of Calmar That his Claim wou'd be asserted by Coarl● and Ferdinand of Austria whose Sister he had lately marry'd by the Dukes of Saxony his Uncles and the Marquess of Brandenburg his Brother-in-law That he was at Peace with all the Hanse-Towns That the City of Lubeck which formerly pretended to preserve an Equality betwixt the Northern Crowns was not now in a Condition to assist Sweden That the Republick was so weaken'd by the late War in which it was engag'd for the space of ten Years against the King of Denmark that the Regency were wholly taken up with contriving Expedients to re-establish their Trade and wou'd think themselves oblig'd to Christiern if he wou'd consent to confirm and maintain the Peace which they had obtain'd That his Master was endeavouring to make a League with France and England and that as soon as the Truce betwixt Denmark and Sweden expir'd he wou'd enter the last of these Kingdoms at the Head of his Army to maintain his Right and establish his Authority He added That he had Orders to assure him in his Master's Name That his Majesty wou'd entrust him with the Government during his Absence and advance him to the same Post which the Archbishops of Upsal enjoy'd under the Reign of his Predecessors The haughty Prelate listen'd attentively to a Proposal that flatter'd his Ambition He look'd upon the Kindness he had lately receiv'd from the Administrator as a meer forc'd Condescention and instead of loving and honouring him as his Benefactor he began to hate and suspect him as a secret and implacable Enemy of his Family and one who was oblig'd by Interest to humble and oppose him He fancy'd that he might aspire to the Authority which that Prince enjoy'd and even that he might obtain it by devoting himself entirely to the King of Denmark's Service Having consider'd all the advantageous Consequences of such a Revolution he repeated his Protestations to the Envoy that he wou'd imitate the most Zealous of his Predecessors in their inviolable Fidelity to the Crown of Denmark But since he was not well acquainted with the present State of a Kingdom from which he had been so long absent 't was resolv'd and agreed upon betwixt 'em that he shou'd spend some time in reviving and increasing the Danish Faction and that the King shou'd from time to time send private Agents to take an account of the Strength and Condition of their Party and to concert the surest and most convenient Measures to put their Designs in Execution The Danish Envoy having finish'd his Negotiation return'd to his Master and the Arch-Bishop embark'd for Sweden with a full resolution to Plot the ruin of the Administrator Tho' that Prelate was educated at Rome he had made but a slender progress in the Arts of Subtilty and Dissimulation that are so industriously taught at that Court He was naturally of a stiff and violent Temper more learned than Politic proud of the Riches and Power of his Family and absolutely govern'd by his Humor He was extremely imperious and haughty and even incapable of Complaisance he hated his Superiours cou'd not endure his Equals and slighted his Inferiours among whom he reckon'd all those who were not so rich as himself He was so far from regulating his Behaviour to the Administrator according to the Maxims of Policy that he did not so much as observe the common Rules of decency He industriously avoided that Prince who in an obliging manner came out of his Palace to meet him and assoon as he came ashore he went by Land to Upsal without sending any compliment to the Administrator as if he had forgot both his Dignity and Kindness He