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beginnings find some opposition, so did the preaching of the word of God here;
first of all it was a matter of great difficulty to maintain a School without
the confines of Lapland, to which the Youth of that Nation should resort,
therefore in the second place it was advised by that famous man Joannes
Skytte, free Baron of Duderhoff, and Senator of the Kingdom, who to his
immortal praise obtained that a School might be erected by the King in
Lapland it Self, in the Province of Vma, near the Church Lyksala, from
whence the School took its name. This was the Second School the Laplanders
had, and by Gustavus Adolphus, then engaged in a tedious war in Germany,
the charge of it was committed to the aforesaid Joannes Skytte, by a Roial
Charter, and setled upon his Family for ever, allowing the School-master
the whole Tithe, after the ordinary charges deducted; but still retaining
to the Crown the superintendency of the benefaction. The form thereof
is as follows,
We Gustavus Adolphus by the Grace of God
King of the Goths and Vandals, &c. declare that
altho our dear Father Charles of blessed memory; as likewise
we our selves, after we were by the Divine Providence placed
in the Throne of this Kingdom, have earnestly endevor’d that
our Northern Subjects called Laplanders should be instructed,
in Arts and Letters; and be informed in the grounds of Christian
Religion, yet the distraction of the present time, hath hitherto
hindred our religious purpose: but least our attemt should be utterly
frustrated, we ordain and appoint our faithfull Senator, Chief
Governor of Livonia, Ingria, and Carelia, the illustrious Lord
John Skytt L. B. in Dunderhoff, Governor and Visitor of a
School to be erected in Umalappmark, he having undertaken that
Charge: We farther ordain that the Government of the said School,
shall from time to time continue and belong to the Successors, in his
family: and that the Master and Scholars in the school aforefaid, may
have a constant maintenance, we grant unto them the Tithes which
the inhabitants of that division, do yearly bring into the
Storehouse of Uma, after the ordinary paiments are deducted. These
Tithes, with other gifts and benefactions which the aforefaid Lord
John Skitt shall by his diligence acquire for the said charitable use;
shall be disposed by him for the benefit of the said School, reserving
to our selves and successors the supreme regulation of the same. In
witness whereof we have set our hand and Seal. Given in old Stetin
in Pomerland, June 20. Ann. 1631.
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