Note 23 — Chapter VIII · The Colony Under Rising and Papegoja, 1653–1655.
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“Soldaterne ... som dock på sistone alle giorde sigh Rebellyske och goffwe sigh alle dhe 1,000 dieflar, som i Helwete bor, at dhee icke skulle ståå, fast dhee wille partera dhem i 1,000 styken.” Signed statement of Gyllengren, Rev. Hiort, Peter Lindeström and others, August 31, 1655, enclosed with letter to E. Oxenstierna. The document was discovered by Dr. Malmsten in Kammararkivet during the author’s visit to Stockholm in 1909. It is now preserved in Ox. Saml. (R.A.)