Piotr Nater
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Their numbers had increased rapidly, and they now formed an army of forty thousand warriors, distributed into twenty regiments.
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 Zigismund 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 fifteen eighty seven.
These provided for a perpetual union between Sweden and Poland, but with a distinct national government and administration for each of the two countries.
However strongly these statutes endeavoured to ensure Sweden's independence, it soon appeared that the country was threatened with becoming a mere appendage to the larger Polish realm.
When hostilities broke out between the Poles and Russians, King John also declared war against the Tsar in fifteen ninety.
This campaign was exceedingly burdensome for Sweden, which was then suffering from a failure of crops and from pestilence, and impoverished by the extravagant expenditures of John.
The war proved unfortunate, so that already in John's reign the Swedes were dissatisfied with the Polish Union.
John died on november seventeenth, fifteen ninety two, and Zigismund, then twenty six years old, inherited the throne.
The Catholics were triumphant, expecting that in Sweden, as in Poland, heretics would be forced to submit.
Considering the temper of the Swedish people at this time, it is scarcely conceivable that a violent attempt at reaction could have succeeded.
It would probably have led to the deposition of the Vasa dynasty had there not been a scion of it willing and able to keep the nation in the way traced by Gustavus.
Charles of Sudermanland, then forty two years of age, had, with some trifling exceptions, and bearing their different religious opinions, been a faithful vassal of his older brother.
He was already the preferred favourite of the people.
While John was half Catholic and his son wholly so, Charles had remained true to his inherited Protestantism.
While John ruled tyrannically and incapably,
Foolishly wasting the resources of his realm, Charles managed his dukedom and its finances with admirable order, and was a mild, though firm ruler.
Why should the nursling of the Jesuits leave Warsaw to come to Sweden?
Did not the Swedes already have a genuine son of Vasa among them, one who had remained true to his ancestors' ways?
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