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4- ARCHBISHOP ABRAHAM AND OLAUS MARTINI. 267
pose him. He was, however, kept in prison, and in his
place his former rival, Nicolaus Botniensis, now first pro
fessor at Upsala, was elected, apparently by the estates
(6th February, 1599), to be archbishop.
14
The election
was certainly irregular, and Botniensis did not live long
enough to be consecrated. A great deal of sympathy was
felt for Archbishop Angermannus, whose loyalist prin
ciples were stronger than his religious instincts, just as
Sancroft s were in 1688, and apparently he mistrusted the
duke s theological position. He remained in prison till
his death in 1608, supported in his sufferings by the
affection of the? clergy &lt;of his diocese.
Botniensis died i8th May, 1600, being only about fifty
years old, and was a great loss to Sweden. Angermannus
was still in prison, but a new archbishop was chosen in the
following year at the Riksdag in Stockholm in the person
of another learned man, Olaus Martini.15
He was son of
the Bishop of Linkoping, Martinus Olai, King John s old
opponent, who had been roughly deposed by the king, and
took refuge under Duke Charles protection. The new
archbishop had been himself a student at Rostock, like
Botniensis. He had preached at King Sigismund s coro
nation, and had for some years been pastor at Nykoping in
the duchy of Sodermanland, and was, therefore, well
known to the duke. The Chapter of Upsala now accepted
this appointment, and Olaus was consecrated, as we learn
from his funeral sermon, on the i6th August, 1601, and,
as we learn from another authority, by Petrus Kenicius,
Bishop of Skara, who afterwards succeeded him in the
archbishopric. I am careful to state these facts, as doubt
was cast upon the reality of his consecration by Anjou, and
repeated by other Church historians, such as Norlin and
Cornelius.
I have myself had the opportunity of examining the
Chapter Acts of Upsala, which agree with the date given
14
Magnusson: I.e., pp. 156 foil.
15
See P. E. Thyselius :
Anteckningar om Olaus Martini, 1880.
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