b o o k quitted the palace in a peafant’s drefs, and, accompanied b y
i— ^.L/a few guards, roved about the country in a frantick manner.
Dennis Bury, his preceptor, overtaking him at a fmall distance
from the town, fell'proftrate at his feet, and conjured
him to- ipare the lives o f the noble prifoners ; a petition
which-proved-1 as fatal-to- himfelf as to the perfons for whom
he interceded : for Eric gave figns to one o f his guards* who
killed Bury upon the fpot, and difpatched immediate orders
to the jailèr at Upfala for the execution o f the prifoners ;
orders o f a madman, which were-but too readily obeyed,' and
which extirpated at once the antient family o f the Stures.
Mean while-Eric wandered about the woods in a ftate of
remorfe and- diftraftion ; and was difeovered on the fourth
day after his departure from Upfala* by his wife Catharine :
ihe found-him in the parfonage o f Oden fa la- wild with grief
and defpair-*, and fcattering money among the people who
were affembledupon this melancholy occafton-i The prefence
o f his beloved Catharine operated1 like a eh arm ; fhe calmed
his agonies, prevailed upon him to take nourifhment and re-
pófe, and accòmpanied-him to Stockholm, where he gradually
recovered his fenfest. Soon] however, relapfing into his former
ftàte o f miftrnft and.fufpicions, his; admi-niftration became fo
weak and odious, that, in the followin-g-year, he was depofed
by his two brothers, who united their, forces agai-nft him..
' John afcended- the throne which Eric-had fo unworthily
filled. In another place 1 ihali have occafion toy mention
the circumftahces o f his-imprifonment and death J.
Upfala is an archiepifcopal fee, and one of the moft an*
tient Chriftian eftabliihments in Sweden. ' Everinus was the
* Einem wilder» T h ie r aehulicher als C e lfiu s H i ft. d ’E r ic X I V . L iv . 9.
« n e ra M eh fth en . D a h lin . • S eé .ChiiP. IX.. o f this b o jk .. -
•j* See D ah lin ’ s .Gef. V o l. I I I . p . 511, Sic.
n ' .cyA-* lU x fc
¡firft; bifhop ; by birth an Engliiliman, he came, in io z 6 , chap.
into this country at the requeft o f king Olaus Scotkonung, in
order to affift in converting the natives o f Old Upfala to
Chriftianity *. The firoilarity o f the Engliih and Swediih
languages is mentioned as the motive which firft: brought
Everinus, and afterwards feveral o f his countrymen into
thefe parts as preachers o f the Gofpel. He .was no lefs qualified
for this talk from the meeknefs o f his difpofition, than
frotp his knowledge o f the Swediih idiom; not forcing, as
was but too ufual, the natives to embrace the Chriftian doctrines
by violence and. p e r fe c tio n ; <;but introducing the Gofpel
by perfuafion and example. His fucceflbrs in the fee
refided for the moft part at Sigtuna until T 1 20, when Nicholas
Ulphfon fixed the refidence at Old Upfala. Stephen,
a native o f Eaft-Gothland, the feventh biikop, was the firft
archbiibop: he was raifed to that dignity in 1 x 64, and died
in 118 5 . Falko, who was confecrated in 12.67, and expired
in 1276, firft transferred the refidence to New Upfala. The
immediate occafion o f this change in the archiepifcopal feat
was the deftruftion o f the cathedral at Old Upfala by a violent
fire in 1246, which was foon afterwards began to be
rebuilt on the fpot where it -now ftands f.
} the center o f the town ftands the cathedral, a large
building o f brick : the archite&ure is in the Gothick ftyle,.
excepting, two towers of Jater date, which are ornamented’
Jith fmall marble pillars o f the Dorick order, and which dif-
figure the general fymmetry of the other parts. This cathe-
<kal was begun in the middle o f the 1 3th century, under the
uiredhon o f Stephen Bonneville, a; French archite&J, who
ip] lowed in its conftruaiqn the model of the church o f Notre;
f - • - H E c i*n«=.,Mon. Ulla-rakenfia, p . 18 . | |jj
Dame