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DRAXHOLM.
Chap. XXVII.
the Bishops of Roeskilde ; the huge mass of buildings
are still something ecclesiastical in their appearance,
surrounded by a moat, and of no architectural beauty.
The great tower, which I see in the old engravings of
Resen, was destroyed by the Swedes in 1658; the chapel
gutted during the War of the Counts, 1533. It is the
intention of Baron Zeutphen Adeler to restore it to its
former state, and, from what 1 have seen of his buildings
elsewhere, there is no doubt it will be executed in a
creditable manner. The appellation of Draxholm
became later merged in the barony of Adelsborg, created
in favour of a descendant of the illustrious Admiral Carl
Adeler, whose portrait by Carl van Mander,* in black
armour, decorated with the orders of the Dannebrog and
. St. Marens, adorns the walls of the lately-restored chapel
of the castle. Of an ancient Norwegian family, he
was Admiral in the Venetian service, commanded the
galleys of the Republic against the Turks, and was
later summoned to Denmark to take the command of
the navy. The Zeutphens are of Dutch extraction; a
family who distinguished themselves in the Spanish
service fighting against the Moors of Murcia and Granada.
Before we proceed to visit the church of Faareveile,
I may as well explain how Bothwell came to end his
days within the prison of the castle of Draxholm.
It was in the year 1567 that sentence of death was
passed by the Scottish Parliament on the Earl of
Bothwell, at that time resident in the Orkney Islands, having
under his command a squadron of five light-armed
vessels of war, with which he performed such direful
acts of piracy as to cause a general consternation
* Engraved by Haelwech, and also in the present time.
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