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entered matrimony. In 1526 the king assumed charge
of the Gripsholm monastery as his hereditary estate.
He sought to win over the nobles by promising to
return to them such ancestral estates as their forebears
had donated to the Church under false threats of
purgatory drummed into their ears by priests and monks.
The common people, however, were attached to their
monks and priests, and the hard times prevailing
throughout the country they charged to the king. Two
prelates which had been deposed for disloyalty, namely,
Bishop Peder Sunnanväder and Master Knut,
availed themselves of the overwrought state of the
public mind for fomenting a revolt among the Dalecarlians.
The king succeeded in quieting the province and
capturing the two instigators of the uprising, who were
convicted on evidence furnished by the crown, and
executed in 1526.
Bishop Brask warned his clergy against infection
from “the Lutheran, or rather the Luciferian, heresy,”
but the king forbade him to print and circulate any
matter whatsoever without first submitting it for royal
approval. Archbishop Johannes Magnus traveled
about his diocese with a retinue of two hundred people.
At a great feast, arranged by him in Uppsala at
Whitsuntide, 1526, he is said to have proposed a health to the
king in these proud words: “Our Grace drinks to Your
Grace.” The king left the hall in anger, with the
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