the svea court of appeal in the early modern period 156 surroundings, was more at home with the Court of Appeal. Banér is referred to as “being fetched”439 to the Court or being approached by officials, if he did not come to the Court himself.440 Apparently, he was staying in other parts of the Castle Tre Kronor to see to his duties and was not over-eager to show his face to get the dispute settled. At certain points, when actually present at the court, Banér was rather haughty towards Hieronymus Birckholtz. After two years of court hearings, at many of which only written pleas were exchanged, the Court of Appeal gave its decision. It ruled that the previous agreement on the division of landed property could not be invalidated but would rather be confirmed by the Court. When it came to a property that had been bequeathed to the King by Filippa Fleming and then granted by the King to Klas Fleming and his offspring, the court could and would not change anything of the grant. If someone should be appealed to to change the situation, then it would be the King himself. As to the income on the landed property, which the Birckholtz party had found disappointing, the Court of Appeal ordered that good and trustworthy men should be appointed to investigate the case in Finland. Even in this case, the applicants thanked the Court but were still hoping, if they later considered it necessary, to be given the right to apply for beneficium revisionis. However, there were no signs of revisions in the later Court archives. 439 “[B]lef bådh sändh efter här Per Baner att han kommer här op,” RA, SHA, E VI a 2aa, Liber causarum 27, 30 Oct. 1620. 440 For example, on 19 September 1620 it was written that Carl Olofsson “was sent down to Lord Per Banér” (Då blef Carl Olofsson Fiscal nedher sendt till her Per Banér), RA, SHA, E VI a 2aa, Liber causarum 27.
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