[684] As the king wrote later to an acquisitive noble: "To strip churches, convents, and prebends of estates, manors, and chattels, thereto are all full willing and ready; and after such a fashion is every man a Christian and evangelical"—i.e. Lutheran. Geijer, p. 126. Cp. p. 129 as to the practice of spoliation.
[685] Geijer, pp. 119, 129.
[686] Id. p. 125; Otté, p. 236. The prelates were no longer admitted to any political offices, though the bishops and pastors sat together in the Diet.
[687] See Geijer, pp. 129-36.
[688] Prof. York Powell, article on Icelandic Literature, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 10th ed. xii, 621; 11th ed. xiv, 233.
[689] Id. (11th ed. xiv, 234).
[690] Bain, Scandinavia, pp. 100-1.
[691] Powell, article on Icelandic Literature, Ency. Brit. 10th ed. xii, 621.
[692] Id. p. 623.
[693] Shaftesbury (Characteristics, ed. 1900, ii, 262) writes in 1713 of "that forlorn troop of begging gentry extant in Denmark or Sweden, since the time that those nations lost their liberties."