eir orders. Bishops and other prelates shall not hereafter pay
anything to the pope for confirmation. It will be sufficient if they
take their office by consent of the king. All property, real and
personal, donated to the cathedrals, monasteries, and parochial or
prebendal churches, shall belong to the descendants of the noblemen who
gave it, and if there is any residue, it shall be conferred by the king
on whomsoever he will. All real property sold or pledged to churches may
be redeemed on payment of the sum received for the property. To augment
the crown's resources the bishops, cathedrals, and canons ought to hand
over to the king as large a sum as they can spare. All these regulations
in the Latin version bear on their face the stamp of forgery. They are
drawn in a careless manner, and convey the impression of being part of a
rough draught that never was perfected. Certainly they never were
enforced. See _Alla riksdag. och moet. besluth_, vol. i. pp. 90-93; _Kon.
Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. iv. pp. 241--247; and _Svenska
riksdagsakt._, vol. i. pp. 89-96.

[167] _Alla riksdag. och moet. besluth_, vol. i. pp. 79-82 and 89; _Kon.
Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. iv. pp. 249-256; and _Svenska
riksdagsakt._, pp. 87-88 and 96-100.

[168] _Dipl. Dal._, vol. ii. pp. 110-112 and 115-116; _Handl. roer.
Skand. hist._, vol. xvi. pp. 70-75, 78-80, 98-100, 105-106, 119-122 and
124-127; _Handl. roer. Sver. inre foerhall._, vol. i. pp. 58-59 and 60-62;
_Kon. Gust. den Foerstes registrat._, vol. iv. pp. 3-4, 12-13, 42-43,
54-55, 111-112, 175-176, 400-404, 406-407, 417 and 419-420; _Monumenta
polit. Eccles._, pp. 10-11 and 17-18; and _Skrift. och handl._, vol. i.
pp. 352-353.

[169] Svart, _Gust. I.'s kroen._, pp. 133-134; and _Kon. Gust. den
Foerstes registrat._, vol. iv. p. 259.

[170] _Handl. roer. Sver. inre foerhall._, vol. i. pp. 105-107; and _Kon.
Gust. den Foerstes registrant._, vol. iv. pp. 287-289.

[171] Svart, _Gust. I.'s kroen._, pp. 134-135; _Handl. roer. Sver. inre
foerhall._, vol. i. pp. 120-123, 129 and 135-138; _Kon. Gust. den Foerstes
registrat._, vol. iv. pp. 315-318, 325-326, 327-328, 340-343 and
391-394; and _Smal. archiv._, pp. 175 and 177.

CHAPTER IX.

CORONATION OF THE KING. 1528.

Reasons for Delay of the Coronation.--Preparations for the
Ceremony.--Consecration of the Bishops.--Coronation
Festival.--Retrospect of the Revolution.--Character of Gustavus.

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