[356]. This war is called in Denmark ‘die Grafenfehde,’ war of the Count; and this name has become a proverbial expression to designate a great calamity.
[357]. Rerum Danicarum Scriptores, pp. 65-75. Hamelman, Oldenburgische Chronik, pp. 327-340. Mallet, iv. pp. 242, 323. Histoire Universelle of Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné.
[358]. Job xii. 19.
[359]. ‘Super laquearia in fœdum latibulum conscenderat.’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 405. ‘Auf einem Balken unter seinem Dache.’—Munter, Kirchengeschichte, iii. p. 449.
[360]. ‘Antistes Arusiensis (Ove Bilde, the bishop of Aarhuus) castellum Silkeburgicum dedi non patiebatur, quantum vis acriter Rantzovius id oppugnaret, sed per Johannem Stugium contra vim defendebat.’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. pp. 404-406, where these several arrests are narrated.
[361]. ‘Cum nobilitate cives ex plebe urbana æque atque ru tica delecti convocabantur.’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 406.
[362]. ‘Ipse exoptasset se in diabolum transformari,’ &c.—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 407. Munter, Kirchengeschichte, iii. p. 456.
[363]. ‘Dissentientes nedum ut vi contra conscientiam adigantur . . . reddituros ipsos Deo fidei rationem.’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 407.
[364]. See vol. v. p. 413. The assembly of May 21, at Geneva.
[365]. Nye, Danske Magazin, i. 240; in Munter, Kirchengeschichte, iii. p. 458.