s in
Upsala Cathedral, Dec. 21, 1560, by Peder Svart, who had formerly been
preacher to the court and had been made bishop of Vesteras by Gustavus
in 1556. It is ornate and pretentious, and of little value.

SVART, Peder. _Gustaf I.'s kroenika_, ed. G. E. Klemming. Stockh., 1870.
8^o.

This chronicle was begun in 1561, the year following the king's death;
and the author himself died in 1562, having brought his work down only
to the year 1533. The original MS. is in the Royal Library at Stockholm.
Svart writes in a forcible and at the same time easy style. Nor does he
lack good sense; though the work is marred throughout by a bitterness
toward popery and a total blindness to the errors of Gustavus.

SVART, Peder. _Historia om de forna Westeras stifts biscopar_, ed. A. A.
von Stiernman. Stockh., 1744. 4^o.

A history of the bishops of Vesteras, running to 1534.

TOXITES, Michael. _Epicedion sereniss. ac potentiss. principis, ac D. D.
Gostaui, Suecorum, Gothorum, atq: Vandalorum regis._

A copy of this rare little book is preserved in the British Museum. It
contains eight quarto pages without pagination, and is without date or
place of publication, though it is believed to have been printed in
Stockholm in 1561. It is a mere eulogy of Gustavus in Latin verse, and
is addressed to King Erik XIV.

GRIP, Birger Nilsson. _Calendarium Hammarstadense._ [In _Scriptores
rerum Suecicarum_, vol. i. sect. 1, pp. 237-239.]

This is a short calendar of the births and deaths of some eminent
persons arranged in the order of the days of the year. The compiler was
born about 1490, and died in 1565. He was a Cabinet member, and a warm
supporter of Gustavus Vasa, whose niece he married.

LUDVIGSSON, Rasmus. _Collectiones historicae._ [In _Scriptores rerum
Suecicarum_, vol. iii. sect. 1, pp. 79-87.]

Born probably at beginning of sixteenth century. When Gustavus,
according to Act passed at Vesteras, 1527, established the Royal
Archives, he employed Ludvigsson to collect all the old documents
belonging to the various churches. These were then deposited in the
Royal Archives. Ludvigsson also, by order of Gustavus, compiled a
genealogical table of the old nobility of Sweden, that Gustavus might
know what estates to claim. Under Erik XIV., as well as under his
brother Johan, Ludvigsson held the post of secretary to the king. He
died in 1594. As a writer he shows great industry and poor judgment. The
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