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envisaged regular rcports to the Estates by the Regenta for Charles xn. Malmstróm, ‘Om ftmbetsm&nnens stallning . . p. 184.
146 Sven Grauers, *Till belysning av det karolińska envaldets narings-politik* (A*FA, 1960), passim.
147 For the whole question, see Varenius, op. cit., and Runę Blomdahl, Fórmyndarrdfstens huimdskede, Stockholm, 1963.
148 Lagerroth, ‘Det svenska statsr&dets ansvarighet . , p. 45.
148 The Protokollsdeputałion was first constituted in 1734.
150 Malmstrom, ‘Om ambetsmannens stallning . . pp. 187-96.
151 An excellent study of licentiering is Lennart Linnarsson, Riksrddens licentiering, Uppsala, 1943.
153 See Ame Munthe, Joel Gripenstiema, p. 75, for the activities of dc Flon.
1,3 A good example in Carlson, v, 87.
154 Ibid., v, 191. The special concessions madę to Bengt Oxenstiema (but not to others of the Oxenstierna family) provide one of the few exceptions: ibid., v, 144.
155 Ibid,, iv, 148.
156 Isberg, op. cit., p. 78.
157 Clemensson, Flottans Jbrldggning till Karlskrona, pp. 85-6.
158 His participadon seems to have been rather greater than used to be thought: see Herman Schiick, ‘Karl xi och formyndarrafsten’ (Histońsk Tidskrift, 1964), passim.
169 Ake Stille, Studier óver Bengt Oxenstiemas polińska system, pp. 49"5°*
160 For typical opposing views see, e.g., Jerker Rosen, ‘Johan Gyllen-
stiemas program for 1680 ars riksdag*, Scandia, 1944, and Sven Grauers, ‘Kring forspelet till 1680 &rs riksdag* (Historiska studier tilldgnade NHs Ahnlund), Stockholm, 1949.
181 Robinson, p. 237.
162 Hein, ‘Christoph von Brandts relationer* (KFA> 1920), p. 56.
163 See, e.g., the letter in Carlson, iv, 163 n. 2,
164 Anders Schonbergs historiska bref, iii, 103.
165 Quoted in Carl-Arvid Hessler, ‘ “Aristokratfordomandet**. En rikt-ning i svensk historieskrivning’, Scandia, 1943, p. 245.
166 Anders Schonbergs historiska bref, ii, 317: perhaps an unconscious echo of Per Brahe’s remark on the duty of a member of the rdd: ‘We have swom, not to be wise, but to be faithfuP: Varenius, i, 135.
167 Karl XI:s bref till JSfils Bielke, p. 78.
168 Anders Johan von Hópkens Skrifter, Stockholm, 1890, i, 248-9.
189 Mis Reuterholms journal, p. 103; and cf his strong approval of the reduktion, ibid., p. 35.
170 Anders Schonbergs historiska bref, iii, 252.
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