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122 A History of Sweden
End of the Insurrection. These words of the king
had a soothing effect on the neighboring provinces.
Finally the king’s forces in Smaland succeeded in in-
flicting on the insurgent army a bloody defeat. Dacke
was chased from parish to parish and was at last over-
taken and shot to death with arrows, 1543.
Thus ended the last bitter struggle between old and
new customs. This was the most dangerous of the up-
risings against Gustavus. He had been given a lesson,
and henceforth was more careful. He laid aside for-
eign monarchial methods and returned to the old
fatherly Swedish system. From this time Gustavus
had peace in the kingdom.
The Vesteras Succession Act. The late insurrection,
however, had shaken Gustavus Vasa’s throne. Hence,
at the Riksdag in Vesteras, 1544, Gustavus stressed
the dangers of internal dissensions and disturbances.
The election of kings had often occasioned such dis-
sensions. Gustavus now induced the Estates to fore-
stall such dangers for the future by adopting a Suc-
cession Act, a law that the crown should be hereditary
in the male line of Gustavus Vasa’s descendants accord-
ing to age. This repealed the provision in Magnus
Ericsson’s National Law that the crown of Sweden
was elective and not hereditary. By this act the king
had become something more than one of the great lords
of the kingdom. The Vasa family hatf raised itself a
high step above its former equals among the nobility.
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