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Chap. XXVIII.
CHRISTIAN II.
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“ Now my time will not be longnor was it, for he did
not long survive his cousin.
I am not ffoing to enter into the defence of this
monarch, and have Vertot brought up against me, and
the “ Nero of the North ” thrown in my teeth; still,
after what I have read in the Danish historians, I am
of opinion he has been blackened more than necessary ;
added to which he had one great crime in the eyes of
the sixteenth century—his leaning towards the
Reformed faith. The Emperor Charles V., in speaking
of him, said, “ If our brother-in-law, against our counsel
and will, change his religion, so also will we change our
affection and support towards him.” Another writer
declares him “to have been a Protestant at heart,
though he dare not profess the faith openly.”
Christian was neither flesh nor fowl—Catholic or of the
Reformed faith—an object of suspicion to both parties:
had it not been for his “ grand connexion ” the
Emperor, he would in all probability have declared
himself, and have taken his seat among the Protestant
potentates of Europe.
I have already alluded to the volume of King
Christian II.’s Correspondence, lately published at
Copenhagen, from letters preserved in the archives of Bavaria,
dating from the year 1519 to 1531. There are many
therein—interesting as regards his negotiations with
England and the sister kingdom of Scotland—in which
figures a certain Dr. Alexander Kingome, who signs
himself your “humblest of Chaplains.” Kingome was
a Scotchman by birth, and employed as an emissary
to procure aid from King Henry VIII. of England.
After a time the answer arrived, worded in most elegant
Latin. Dr. Kingome was received at Richmond by
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