[486]. ‘Precor Christum ut per hos multum fructum faciat Christus ipse, qui eos per majestatem tuam vocat et ordinat. Benedicat Pater . . omnibus consiliis et operibus regiæ tuæ majestatis.’—Luther, Epp. v. p. 179.
[487]. Raumer, Geschichte Europas, ii. pp. 137-141. Geijer. Gerdesius.
[488]. Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 326.
[489]. ‘Doch ständen Zeiten bevor, wo Schwedens Kinder gern ihn aus der Erde scharren würden, wenn sie könnten.’—Geijer, Geschichte Schwedens, ii. p. 144.
[490]. Geijer, ii. p. 146.
[491]. Catherine, daughter of Magnus, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, died in 1535. Erick was born December 13, 1533.—Ibid. ii. p. 94.
[492]. Geijer, ii. p. 136.
[493]. Geijer, ii. p. 138.
[494]. ‘Præter insignem artium liberalium et præsertim matheseos ac linguarum exoticarum cognitionem.’—Messenius, Scondia, vi. Geijer, ii. p. 149.
[495]. ‘Omnes ii qui manducant Christi carnem et bibunt ejus sanguinem vivent in æternum.’—Baazius, Inventarium ecclesiæ Sueo-Gothorum, lib. iii. cap. 3, p. 295.