210 EAST BOTHLAND. 



life. He is actually buried here*. This 

 church is one of the longest I ever saw 

 built of wood, but its height is not corre- 

 spondent. The arms of the town are dis- 

 played on the pulpit. Ulaborg is almost as 

 large as Lund. 



* John Messenius, famous for his learning and his 

 misfortunes, was professor of law and politics at Up- 

 sal, in the reign of the great Gustavus Adolphus, who 

 had a high esteem for him, and who exerted all his 

 wisdom, and even his power, to allay the envy and 

 hatred of some of the colleagues of this able man, es- 

 pecially of John Rudbeck, a malignant though learned 

 theologian. The king in vain endeavoured to pacify 

 Rudbeck by preferment, while he removed Messenius 

 to Stockholm, and made him a member of the new 

 council established there. The latter was formally ac- 

 cused of being a secret partisan of the deposed catholic 

 king Sigismond, and was condemned to a perpetual 

 prison, where he composed a great work entitled Scan' 

 dia illustrala, published at Stockholm between the 

 years 1700 and 1714. Messenius died in 1636. His son 

 Arnold might be justified for detesting those who had 

 persecuted his illustrious father, but not for the folly 

 of expressing his feelings in satirical publications against 

 people in power. For this he paid with his life on the 

 scaffold in 1648, and his own son, aged about 17» 

 suffered with him. 



