John Henry Wright

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Part 1 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Philipson from The History of All Nations from Earliest Times, Volume 12, The Religious Wars, translated under the supervision of John Henry Wright.

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In his reign, Sweden exported a considerable quantity of cannon and cannonballs.

Just at this time, the Polish-Swedish contest was complicated by Sigismund's interference in the affairs of Russia and by the adventures of the pseudo-Demetrius.

End of Part 1 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Philipson Part 2 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Philipson from The History of All Nations from Earliest Times, Volume 12, The Religious Wars, translated under the supervision of John Henry Wright.

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Part one of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Phillipson From The History of All Nations from Earliest Times, Volume 12, The Religious Wars, translated under the supervision of John Henry Wright.

This is a LibriVox recording.

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In his reign Sweden exported a considerable quantity of cannon and cannonballs.

Just at this time the Polish-Swedish contest was complicated by Sigismund's interference in the affairs of Russia and by the adventures of the pseudo-Demetrius.

End of Part 1 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Phillipsen Part 2 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Phillipsen From The History of All Nations from Earliest Times, Volume 12, The Religious Wars Translated under the supervision of John Henry Wright This is a LibriVox recording.

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Read by Betty B.

Part 1 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Philipson from The History of All Nations from Earliest Times, Volume 12, The Religious Wars, translated under the supervision of John Henry Wright.

This is a LibriVox recording.

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In his reign Sweden exported a considerable quantity of cannon and cannonballs.

Just at this time the Polish-Swedish contest was complicated by Sigismund's interference in the affairs of Russia and by the adventures of the pseudo-Demetrius.

End of Part 1 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Phillipsen Part 2 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Phillipsen From The History of All Nations from Earliest Times, Volume 12, The Religious Wars Translated under the supervision of John Henry Wright This is a LibriVox recording.

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Finally John had him poisoned, February 1577, in the forty-fourth years of his age.

Contrary to his agreement with his brother, Charles of Sudermanland, John received homage as sole king, John III, and his son Sigismund was acknowledged as his heir and successor in 1569.

Like Eric at the beginning of his reign, he sought to lean upon the nobles, whose authority over the peasants he considerably enlarged, giving the higher nobility complete jurisdiction over their subjects.

As the Russians were threatening war, John concluded at Stettin in 1570 a peace with the Danes, which imposed considerable money burdens on Sweden.

When an attempt was made to force them into the united church, they rebelled, and though quieted for a while by the concessions of the government, they remained dissatisfied and hostile to the Poles, a state of things which later had disastrous consequences for the kingdom.

The Polish policy of Sigismund caused intense dissatisfaction in Sweden, and thus the accession of the Vasas to the Polish throne, which was to have effected the union of the two great monarchies, was the very thing that led to permanent hostility between them.

Before leaving Sweden, Sigismund and his father King John III subscribed the so-called Statutes of Kalmar, September 1587.

These provided for a perpetual union between Sweden and Poland, but with a distinct national government and administration for each of the two countries.