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I. A Donation of Gustavus Adolphus, confirmed by Queen
Christina (1641).
We Christina etc. etc. make it known that after the
guardians of the late Jacob Spens’s children have laid before
us the open letter and donation of our late dear Father of
glorious Memory and have at the same time humbly desired,
since the same letter be written on paper and showed signs
of decay, that We should order a true Copy of it to be
made for the children’s safety in future times, We have
granted their humble request and given orders that the
original of the said letter which is for the greater part
unimpaired and quite legible, be transcribed word for word. It
runs: We Gustaff Adolph by God’s Grace King etc. etc.
make it known, that We out of special favour and good-will
for the diligent, faithful and important services which our
“ faithful man ” and General over our English and Scotch
regiments, our beloved and noble Jacob Spens, Friherre of
Orrlholmen, Lord of Wormiston, Knight, has rendered us
and is in duty bound still to render us, our dear Consort,
heirs, and the Crown of Sweden, especially since he some
time since has levied and brought across for the service of
the Crown a considerable number of Soldiers from England
and Scotland at his own expense and did not insist on his pay
but considered our own and the Crown’s distress and was
satisfied with whatever was given to him; moreover resigned
the rest which he had still to claim for account of his late
son James Spens namely 1500 Riksdaler, We give and grant
him and his legitimate heirs the following estates: in
Upland in the Waxala district and the parish of Old
Upsala Fullerod three Crown farms, in Haglunda
district in the Parish of Ballingstad etc. etc. together
with all their appurtenances in fields, meadows, forests,
fisheries, mills and peat-bogs: nothing excepted, that
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