Footnote 490: Geijer, ii. p. 146. Footnote 491: Catherine, daughter of Magnus, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, died in 1535. Erick was born December 13, 1533.—_Ibid._ ii. p. 94. Footnote 492: Geijer, ii. p. 136. Footnote 493: Geijer, ii. p. 138. Footnote 494: ‘Præter insignem artium liberalium et præsertim matheseos ac linguarum exoticarum cognitionem.’—Messenius, _Scondia_, vi. Geijer, ii. p. 149. Footnote 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. Footnote 496: Baazius, _Inventarium_, lib. iii. cap. iv. p. 302. O. Celsius, _History of Erick_, ii. p. 29. Footnote 497: Geijer, _Geschichte Schwedens_, ii. p. 163. Footnote 498: ‘Er stürzte mit gezücktem Dolch in der Hand in das Gefängnisszimmer Nils Stures.’—Geijer, _Geschichte Schwedens_, ii. p. 182. Footnote 499: ‘Dionysius Beurreus würde auf Befehl des Wahnsinnigen niedergestochen.’—Geijer, _Geschichte Schwedens_, ii. p. 184. Footnote 500: ‘Er rief dass er nicht König wäre.’—Geijer, _Geschichte Schwedens_, ii. p. 184. Footnote 501: Geijer, ii. p. 193. Footnote 502: Schinmeier, _Die drei Reformatoren in Schweden_, p. 157. Footnote 503: ‘Nam mundus est satis amplus ut odia inter fratres distantia locorum et regionum bene possint sedari.’—_Ericus ad Johannem._ Geijer, ii. p. 194. Footnote 504: ‘Sacerdotium et sacrificium.’—S. Hosii _Opera_, ii p. 338. Footnote 505: ‘Insinuat se Pater in amicitiam Germanorum; hi enim faciles sunt.’—(Feyt, _De statu religionis in regno_.) Geijer, ii. p. 221. Footnote 506: ‘Promptitudinem latini sermonis et elegantiam mirantur, operam omnem promittunt.’—Geijer, ii. p. 221. Footnote 507: ‘Insinuat se in familiaritatem aliquorum, nunc hunc, nunc illum, dante Deo, ad fidem _occulte_ reducit.’—_Ibid._ Footnote 508: Geijer, ii. p. 217. Footnote 509: Geijer, _Geschichte Schwedens_, pp. 220, 225, 273. Messenius, _Scondia_. Baazius, &c. Footnote 510: See these letters in the work of Baazius, lib. iii. cap. x. pp. 334-358, 346-351-365. Footnote 511: ‘Ego nihil magis in votis habuerim quam ut si quis adhuc in V.M. animo scrupulus resideret, eum, D. j., eximere possem.’ Footnote 512: Geijer, ii. p. 224. Footnote 513: ‘Mit Gewalt auf sein Bett legen, und ihn mit Polstern oder grossen Kissen ersticken.’—(Letter of January 19, 1577). Geijer, ii. pp. 196, 199. Footnote 514: ‘Toxicum ignarus in pisonum, ut fertur, jusculo præbitum absorbsit, indeque miseram efflavit animam.’—Messenius, _Scondia_, vii. p. 48. Footnote 515: Geijer, ii. p. 204. Footnote 516: Representations made by exiles from the kingdom of Sweden to Henry III. to obtain justice for the assassination committed in the person of Erick, king of Sweden.—Bibl. Roy. M.S. Footnote 517: