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i66 IV. THE ROMANIZED CHURCH (A.D. 13891520).
gians put upon the value of these indulgences. Those who
sold them magnified their value, and many of those who
bought no doubt believed that they were receiving some
great advantage.
Arcimboldi received a fresh appointment in 1516, after
the dispute had broken out between Sten and the arch
bishop, and he was empowered as legate, a latere, to heal
the breach and do other business in the pope s name, being
furnished with a letter to the administrator, dated 6th
September, 1516. In January, 1517, he sent as his emis
sary Didrik Slagheck, a Dutchman, of whom we shall hear
more later on, to negotiate for peace in the interests of King
Christian. In March, 1518, the legate himself came into
Sweden, where he was allowed to set up his cross, and to
sell his wares, and to dispense titles and judgments in the
pope s name, without hindrance thus showing that the
events of 1517 were not intended to be a final breach with
Rome.
By the end of the year Arcimboldi was completely won
by the costly presents and personal attentions of the regent
and his friends, and by the hopes of succeeding Trolle.
He attended another Riksdag at Arboga in December,
1518, at which he confirmed the sentence upon the arch
bishop, and advised him to submit, whereupon Trolle
solemnly resigned his office. The estates of Sweden might
now well think that they had received pardon for the in
formality of their earlier proceedings, but the legate s act
had still to be ratified by the pope. Arcimboldi s own plan
seems to have been to get his appointment to Upsala con
firmed at Rome, to continue himself to reside in Italy, and
to receive the revenues of the see, while he appointed old
Jacobus Ulphonis to act as his deputy in Sweden.
But this plan met with strenuous opposition from both
the parties interested. Christian and Trolle were furious
at Arcimboldi s treachery to their cause, and the king used
the opportunity of the legate s return to the south to
deprive him of most of his ill-gotten gains, including a
great deal of two specially Swedish products, iron and
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