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8. PAULINUS GOTHUS. MATTHLE. NEW SWEDEN. 285
great that the king had to give way, and the plan was held
in suspense. The bishops took their stand on the rights of
the spirituality, and urged that political persons had no
business to intermeddle in the government of the Church.
The king then tried another plan of excluding all bishops
and having a council of thirteen priests from the city and
neighbourhood of Stockholm. But neither this nor
another suggestion from the other side were agreed upon,
and the matter was suspended. The king s death left the
government in the hands of the chancellor, Axel Oxen-
stierna, as regent on behalf of the young queen, Christina,
and he had other difficulties to contend with. The bishops
did not deny that some central control was necessary, but
they desired to find it in the separate meeting of the estate
of the clergy at the time of the Riksdag, something like
the Convocation in England, which was very much in their
own hands. This was called the
"
Consistorium Regni."
8. LAURENTIUS PAULINUS GOTHUS ARCHBISHOP. His
SYNODS AND VISITATIONS. JOHANNES MATTHI^E.
THE LAPLAND MISSION. THE COLONY OF NEW
SWEDEN. FORMATION OF NEW DIOCESES.
In the meantime the example of Rudbeckius diocesan
administration was being followed elsewhere. He had un
fortunately fallen out with the regency and the nobility on
account of the hierarchical pretensions put forth in his
Privilegia Doctorum (above n. 29). So when old Arch
bishop Petrus Kenicius died in February, 1636, his candi
dature for the see of Upsala was not approved by the Gov
ernment. The clergy on the whole were in favour of Rud
beckius or the Provost of Upsala, Lenasus. But, after
various attempts at election, the Council of State took the
matter into its hands, and declared that Laurentius
Paulinus Gothus, Bishop of Strengnas, was elected. He
was not indeed anxious for the place, and objections were
raised by the clergy of Upsala and the other candidates.
But, in the end, the choice of the Government prevailed,
and just eighteen months after the death of Kenicius,
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