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MARGARET OF NORWAY. 87
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-A*«-> • It Was Now The Year 1396, And T...
On tlie merits of the deed per se , historians differ . Some say that . it was hurriedly and imperfectly constructed , while others aver carefullto the
that no instrument could have been more y adapted requirements of the occasion . " It appealed , " but saith to the a chances modern
writer of the , future " not . onl It y recognised to the exig the _encies perpetual of the union time , of the three countries under one sceptre—it provided for tlie succession under all
circumstances—it secured to each kingdom the sacredness of its own and laws original , two and treaty parchment to the was si peop gned le ies by of were seventeen each bestowed their temporal national in the and integrity sp archives iritual . _" of Barons each The ,
cop side king residence dom . The castle It stands in which there they now met on vas a hei Queen ht overlooking Margaret ' s sea the - g
. , sea . The town and ramparts lie nestled at its foot—a pine forest front one stretches sees . ; an the far d , miles shadowy away away at outline the , profiled back of — upon the the isle blue the of very sea Oeland verge washes . of The the the shore castle horizon in is ,
now a distillery , and they still show the great hall in which the deed was Thi si s gned matter . of the union once arranged , the Glueen proceeded to
reclaim such of the crown-lands of each country as had been the alienated isle of , or Gothland mortgaged which , by her had predecessors been pled . ged Amongst by Albert these to was the
by Grand the Master Hanseatic herself of of the towns Livonia former , as ; security and bviolence Stockholm for his she , ransom which redeemed had . Too been it just at detained the to cost rey
of possess nine thousand nobles current ; and as , part of Albert's ransom their had alread jewels y for been his paid freedom by the Queen women Margaret of Mecklenburg consented h to , who accept gave his
, written abdication in lieu of the remaining debt , and herself comthe pensated transaction the Hanseatic Again town when s for certain anything fortresses * they mi of ght Sweden have lost were by
not delivered up . to her at , the time stipulated by treaty , she appealed the to the laces guarantees without who having had recourse negotiated to any the contract weapons , and less so gentle recovered than _,
reason p and persuasion . And such was her invariable policy—such her the pacific administration wisdom . that Successful for thirty when -seven circumstances years governed forced every her act to of and ht
the field , she yet preferred the council chamber to the tent , foug expensive more willing as l well y with as humane gold time than of , and steel caused . This the the taxes course to , fall however as of heavil Goth , was y
land upon a the tribute people called as in " the fifteen war -marks . For ' help " redemption was levied ; and on - another occasion an impost was laid upon all kinds of live stock , tailsto be
whichas the animals were counted by their , came con-Ibe temptuousl strong the , case feeling y and sty of led fe discontent arful " Queen of losing among Margaret the the affe peasantry ' s ction tail-tax of . , her " Finding and subj evoked ects this , the to a
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Margaret Of Norway. 87
MARGARET OF NORWAY . 87
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/15/
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