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FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXIV.
modest remark, that, when the palace no longer exists,
his name would be remembered. In all probability
John of Fribourg, Steenwinkel, David Balfour, Inigo
Jones, all in the yearly service of the Danish king,
shared alike in its construction.*
We arrived by the long avenue to the gate-house,
passing to the left the old-fashioned garden which runs
down to the edge of the lake, from which the palace
rises imposing with its lofty towers. These towers of
Christian IV.’s days are unique in Europe, with their
lofty caps, half spire, half cupola, spitted with crowns,
and surmounted bv turning vanes.
The gate-house under which we now pass is of stone
and connected with the castle by a corridor supported
on six arches, which traverses the moat, in the style
of Chenonceaux: this is the only portion of the building
constructed in stone-work. In a room close to the
gatehouse was situated the mint of Christian IV., for he
coined his money under his own eyes, and, when
struck off, the gold was brought in sacks to his own
apartment, whence he saw it poured down a shaft,
which still exists, into the treasure-room below.
Monstrous sharp was King Christian, as his mint-master,
John Engelbrecht by name, of peculating mind, found
to his cost; for, convicted of cheating his royal master,
Christian made no trial, no fuss, but ordered out the
culprit into the courtyard of the castle, and there on
* Many English and Scotch were in the service of Christian IV.:
among them David Balfour, a Scotchman of noble family, was director
of the dockyard ; Rubbens (Robins), an Englishman, at a salary of 60
rix dollars for house-rent, and 900 yearly pay ; James Dunbar ; Patrick
Dunbar (whose portrait I found in the Müller collection, 1593) ; and
many others too numerous to mention.
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