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belongs to it or shall belong to it, to have to use and to
keep for all time under the privileges of the nobility; and
since Herre J. Spentz has on his own free will surrendered
a farm in Hielstadby to Ache Tott . . . and another small
farm which the young Count Thurn now occupies, We give
the aforesaid Jacob Spentz as exchange the demesne of
Crunnby . . . Finally We extend our donations of 1625. • •
by this our Royal Letter to his male and female heirs . . .
with the same privileges and We forbid all those that owe
us obedience to put any obstacle or hindrance in the way
of the aforesaid Jacob Spentz or his heirs in any shape or
form now or in future.
Given in our Camp at Werben, 1st Aug. 1631.
(L. S.) Gustavus Adolphus.
To The above We have attached our Seal and the
signatures of the Guardians of the Kingdom of Sweden.
Datum Stockholm, 13th Octobris 1641.
II. Donation of Three Leaseholds to Major John Urquard,
subject to the Norrköping Act.1
We Christina etc. etc. make it known by this Our open
letter that We by our favour and grace as well as out of
affection have granted, presented and given to our and
the Crown of Sweden’s faithful servant and Major, our
1 The “ Norrköping Beslut ” or “ Act ” was a kind of heritable
enfeoffment. To obviate the danger accruing to the State by the
indiscriminate giving away of crown-lands to private people, the persons to
whom donations of the kind had been given had to solicit a ratification of
the same at each new change of government. When they obtained this
they had still no right to sell or pledge the property without offering it to
the sovereign first. If the feoffee died without male issue, the estate
reverted to the Crown ; if he left a daughter the sovereign was obliged
to give her a “ decent dowry.” On certain conditions, however, the feoff
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