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200 V. THE REFORMATION (A.D. 15201592).
In that supplement to the statute, which is entitled the
Ordinance of Vesteras, it is enacted, that a register of all the
rents of the bishops, cathedrals and canons, should be drawn
up, and the king might direct what proportion of these should
be reserved to the former owners, and how much paid over to
him for the requirements of the crown ;
that ecclesiastical
offices, not merely the higher, but the inferior, should for the
future be filled up only with the king s consent, so that the
bishops might supply the vacant parishes with preachers, but,
subject to the reviewal by the king, who might remove those
whom he found to be unfit ;
that in secular matters priests
should be amenable to the civil jurisdiction, and, on their
decease, no part of their effects should devolve to the bishops ;
finally, that from that day the gospels should be read in all
schools,
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as beseems those which are truly Christian.
6. THE KING USES HIS POWERS. CORONATION 1528.
NEW BISHOPS. COUNCIL OF OREBRO 1529.
The next few years saw Gustaf exercising the large
powers thus put into his hands, as far as the insurrections
with which he had to cope permitted him to do so. We
must not suppose that all right and reason lay on the side of
the peasants, and all injustice on that of the government
and nobles. The Dalesmen and the Smalanders in par
ticular had learnt that the power of warlike combination, of
going out armed with cross-bow and poleaxe, was a con
venient method of escaping taxation by whomsoever it was
claimed. The Dalesmen were offended by the neglect with
which they supposed their privileges and previous services
to be treated. Then there was, at a later date, the still more
important rising of the nobles and peasants in favour of
the old religion under Ture Jonsson, in West Gothland, in
which Bishop Magnus Haraldi was involved, Gradually
however, the king worked through his troubles. He
already possessed three bishops castles : he now took the
others Tynnelso from Strengnas, Lecko from Skara, and
Munkeboda from Linkoping. The monasteries were
largely granted as fiefs to nobles whom it was prudent to
conciliate, or they were restored to the private ownership of
those who claimed them under the third article of the
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