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I78 IV. THE ROMANIZED CHURCH (A.EK 13891520).
archbishop, who was now restored to office ; the king had
taken oath upon the sacrament that it should be so. But
he was, under this mask, maturing a plan of revenge, to
which he was instigated by Didrik Slagheck, once a
barber, but now a bishop, and the bearer of Leo X. s letters
of excommunication against the Swedes. This plan is not
attributed to Archbishop Gustavus by those who lived
nearest the time, although he was used as an instrument by
the king to work it out.
On Wednesday, the 7th, Christian held a council of the
realm, to which the bishops, the chief lords and ladies,
clerks and citizens were summoned. Gustavus Trolle
came forward to demand satisfaction for the injuries he
had received at the hands of the late administrator. He
was supported by Otto, Bishop of Vesteras. The
administrator s widow, Christina, stood up in her hus
band s defence, and declared that all the estates were
equally responsible for the archbishop s deposition and
the destruction of his castle in 1517. The king asked who
of those present had signed the act of deposition. Hans
Brask allowed that he had done so, but appealed to a secret
writing under his seal, in which he asserted that he did
it under compulsion. The others, including the two
bishops, Mathias of Strengnas and Vincentius of Skara,
were imprisoned. Gustavus, it seems, wished the cause to
be referred to Rome for judgment, but the king decided
that it should be settled out of hand. Next day, the 8th,
the prisoners were brought before a spiritual tribunal,
of which the president was the Danish bishop, Jens
Andersson Beldenacke. They were asked whether it was
not heresy to confederate and conspire against the holy see
of Rome, and they were constrained to answer "
Yes."
This was regarded by the court as a condemnation of them
selves, by their own mouth, on a capital charge, and their
immediate execution was decreed even the consolation
of the sacrament being denied them. All things had
been prepared beforehand in the market place, scaffold,
guards, cannon and executioners. First the two bishops
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