of them have any value stamped upon their face, it was a simple
matter to start the figure high, and then reduce it to what the coin
would bring.

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[77] As to Church fees and incomes see a letter of Brask, dated Dec. 21,
1514, in _Hist. handl._, vol. viii. pp. 65-67.

[78] Svart, _Gust. I.'s kroen._, p. 58.

[79] _Von der grauesamen tyrannischen myssehandelung_; Svart, _Gust. I.'s
kroen._, pp. 56-58; and _Sver. trakt._, vol. iv. pp. 35-44.

[80] Johannes Magni, _Hist. pont._, pp. 74-75; Svart, _Gust. I.'s
kroen._, p. 70; and _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. i. pp.
88-89.

[81] Svart, _Gust. I.'s kroen._, p. 73; _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes
registrat._, vol. i. pp. 97, 99-101, 108-111, 114-115, 119, and 298-300;
and Linkoeping, _Bibliotheks handl._, vol. ii. pp. 204-205.

[82] _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. i. pp. 107-108 and
121-129; Forssell, _Sver. inre hist._, vol. ii. p. 72; and _Sver.
trakt._, vol. iv. pp. 44-55, 65-67, and 69-74.

[83] _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. i. pp. 121-129.

[84] _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. i. pp. 129-134 and
139-140; and Theiner, _Schwed. u. seine Stell. z. heil. Stuhl_, vol. ii.
pp. 6-11.

[85] Johannes Magni, _Hist. pont._, p. 75; _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes
registrat._, vol. i. pp. 143-150; and _Nya Kaellor till Finl.
Medeltidshist._, pp. 737-740.

[86] _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. i. pp. 172-174 and
178-181.

[87] Svart, _Gust. I.'s kroen._, pp. 74-75.

[88] _Ibid._, pp. 73-74; and _Sver. trakt._, vol. iv. pp. 67-69.

[89] No one apparently wished to father the expedition. Svart, who
presents the king's side of the case, says, in his _Gust. I.'s kroen._,
pp. 78-81, that Gustavus undertook the campaign at the urgent
solicitation of Lubeck, who promised to defer payment of her loan for
several years without interest, provided Gustavus would undertake the
war. This proposition appears generous, but there is no trace of it in
the contemporary letters of the king. Those letters assert that Brask
was the prime mover of the scheme; but as Brask repudiated it at once,
the responsibility for it cannot be fairly laid on him. See _Kon. Gust.
den Foerstes registrat._, vol. i. pp. 190 and 301.

[90] Rensel, _Beraettelse_, pp. 34-35; _Acta hist. Reg. Christ. II._, pp.
4-9; _Alla riksdag. och moet. besluth_, vol. i. pp. 29-30; _Handl. roer.
Skand. hist._, vol. xvii. p. 172; and _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes
registr