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Doc. 167.) 465
SWEDENBORG’S RESIGNATION.
It is, therefore, my humble wish, that you graciously
release me from office, but without bestowing upon me any
higher rank; which I most earnestly beseech you not to do.
I further pray that I may receive half of my salary, and that
you will graciously grant me leave to go abroad, to some
place where I may finish the important work on which I am
now engaged.
I remain, with deep respect, my most gracious Sovereign,
Your Royal Majesty’s
Most humble and dutiful subject,
EMAN . SWEDENBORG.
Stockholm, June 2, 1747.
Read in the Council, June 12, and agreed to.
DOCUMENT 167.
A.
ROYAL DECREE ACCEPTING SWEDENBORG’S
RESIGNATION. *
We, Frederic, by the grace of God, King of
Sweden, Gothland, Wendland, &c., make known herewith, that
our loyal subject, and Assessor in our and the country’s College
of Mines, our well-beloved, noble, and well-born Emanuel
Swedenborg, has humbly informed us that it will be necessary
for him to go abroad in order to finish the work on which
he is now engaged, praying most humbly that we would
graciously release him from the office of Assessor, which he
holds in our College of Mines, that he may go unembarrassed
to that place abroad where he can finish the work on which he is
now engaged. And although we would gladly see him continue
at home the faithful services he has hitherto rendered to us
and to his country, still we can so much the less oppose his
wish, as we feel sufficiently assured that the above-named work,
on which he is engaged, will in time contribute to the general
use and benefit, not less than the other valuable works written
* This Document was originally preserved in Count Engeström’s Library,
but has now been transferred to the Royal Library in Stockholm .
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