esent, together
with envoys from the Hanseatic Towns. The meeting opened, as was usual,
with an interchange of courtesies and with mutual promises to resist
their common enemy, King Christiern. It was agreed, too, that all
renegades from either country should be returned, and that citizens of
one country should be entitled to any property belonging to them in the
other. As soon, however, as the question of disputed territory arose,
it became clear that no conclusion could be reached. It was therefore
resolved, after long debate, that this question be postponed, to be
decided by a congress of certain Hanse Towns, to be held in Lubeck in
June of the following year. Till then a provisional frontier agreed upon
by Norway, Denmark, and Sweden was to be observed; and Gotland was to
remain during the interval in the hands of that party which held it on
September 1. If it should be found that Norby held it on that day, he
should be called upon to surrender it to Fredrik, to be placed by him
under the temporary control of some person satisfactory to Sweden,
Denmark, and Lubeck. If Sweden should continue the war in Gotland, she
was to pay for all damage she might do. Either party by violating these
terms was to become indebted to the other to the amount of one hundred
thousand guilders. This conclusion reached, the congress was dissolved,
envoys being first sent to Gotland to carry out the terms. Finding that
Norby was still in possession, they entered into negotiations, and soon
obtained a contract, signed by Norby as well as Mehlen, that each should
withdraw his forces from the land. In conformity with this contract
Mehlen at once broke camp and sailed with all the Swedish fleet to
Kalmar; but Norby, laughing at the credulity of his opponent, continued
to dominate the island, and began his piracies afresh.[96]

This disastrous expedition caused a heavy drain upon the Swedish
treasury, an evil which the monarch sought to meet by new demands upon
the Church. On the 9th of May he wrote to Brask that he must have more
money, and that the bishopric of Linkoeping, being benefited more than
others by the expedition, must expect to bear the chief part of the
cost. To this Brask answered humbly that he had already furnished more
than his proper share, but would do his utmost to obtain the needed sum.
This promise, however, did not satisfy the king; and a few days later he
sent a letter to Brask's chapter, declaring that they had collecte