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332 VII. TIME OF FREEDOM AND NEOLOGY.
were due, not to the desire of the crown to increase its
prerogative, but to its weakness and inability to resist the
pressure put upon it
by influential persons. This laxity
ceased on the restoration of personal government under
Gustavus III., who wrote on 25th June, 1786, to the Dean
of Upsala refusing to give him liberty to ordain, saying :
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We have found that ordination belongs to bishops
alone." A similar refusal was made to Olof Celsius of
3. Jakob Serenius, when chaplain in London, obtained per
mission from Bishop Svedberg of Skara to ordain for him
a minister for New Sweden. It is not known whether
he acted on it (Letters of E. Benzelius, jun., at Linkop-
mg).
4. The Dean of Upsala, Matthiius Asp, at the request of
the Chapter, obtained a letter from King Adolphus
Frederick, during the vacancy of the see after the death
of Archbishop Henricus Benzelius (f 2Oth May, 1758),
under which he ordained twenty priests, 2oth June, 1758
(Baiter, p. 678, ed. 1838).
5. Similarly, Lars Hydren, Dean of Upsala, obtained the
"jus
ordinandi
"
from the same king, under which he
ordained sixteen priests, i6th December, 1764, during
the vacancy caused by the death of Archbishop Samuel
Troilius (f i6th January, 1764). [I do not quite under
stand the date, as Beronius, Bishop of Kalmar, is said
by Hollander to have become Archbishop 26th June,
1764. Perhaps he had not been enthroned.]
6. The same dean held a similar ordination of thirteen
priests under similar circumstances 2ist July, 1775.
Beronius had died i8th May, 1775.
The ordinations of Hydren seem to have been limited to these
two cases in 1764 and 1775 : see Archbishop U. von Troil s
Life of Lars Hydren, p. 64, Upsala, 1890.
I
may add under this head that about 1700 the three Swedish
pastors of the Delaware, Rudman, Bjork and Sandel, ordained
Justus Falckner, a Halle student, to the priesthood. When this
act was cited as a precedent for presbyterian ordination, twenty-
four years later,
"
the four Swedish pastors disclaimed the
authority to ordain, and explained the ordination of Falckner
upon the ground that Rudman had been made by
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