the svea court of appeal in the early modern period 306 Nils Bielke (1569–1639), who was to become president of the Turku Court of Appeal. In addition, one had “travelled” and one had only visited the Swedish Skara Scholestuga, which would suggest that his education was quite elementary. Olof Stråle, for instance, enrolled at the universities of Rostock and Greifswald in 1587 at the age of nine with his brother and a third Swede.869 He appears in Wittenberg at the age of 15. Stråle’s youth certainly limits the weight that can be put on his education inRostock and Greifswald, but it is possible that he stayed in Wittenberg for up to four years. His familiarity with the ius commune suggests that he had read law while abroad.870 According to Anjou’s records, only one of the four assessors of the second class, Jacob Jacobsson Snackenborg (d. 1627), had studied, and this was in Uppsala. It is, however, presumed that Jöns Jöransson Lilliesparre (d. 1623/24), the second class judge who had long been surrogate district judge (lagläsare) prior to his assessorship, may have written Rules for Judges, concerning procedural law from a practical perspective. The author appears to be familiar withRoman law and uses it as acomparison with Swedish law. If Lilliesparre actually is the author, it is possible that he had studied abroad, perhaps in Germany.871 Two of the four nonnoble assessors had training – one of themcertainly both in Sweden as well as abroad. This was Johannes Messenius (1579/80 –1636), who spent some years at a Jesuit school in Braunsberg, travelled in several countries, obtained a degree in philosophy in Ingolstadt and was professor of law and politics at the University of Uppsala.872 It is safe to say that the court at the time of its founding was no cradle of university-trained lawyers or learned legal expertise. It consisted of noblemen, roughly half of whom had some cords of most universities do not reveal the faculty at which the student enrolled, but whenever possible information is given on their field of study. 869 It is conceivable that the third Swede could have been the boys’ praeceptor, as Olof at least was very young, and it was normal for young noblemen to travel with their private teachers, see e.g., Helk 1987 p. 28; Nuorteva, Jussi 1997 p. 365. Sometimes the men accompanying the young noblemen were also listed in the matriculation records; see Die Universität Jena in der frühen Neuzeit p. 97; cf. Helk, Vello 1987 p. 28. Whether this was the case here too remains guesswork. 870 Ältere Universitäts-Matrikeln II, Universität Greifswald p. 333; Danielsson, Peter 20072011; http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/periode/1587Ost (last accessed on 5 July 2014); Petrén, Sture 1964 p. 6. 871 See Korpiola, Mia 2009 section 14. The author of Rules for Judges remains anonymous, but references in the text to the Västbo district give us reason to believe that Lilliesparre may have been the author, Almquist, Jan Eric 1951 pp. 14-15. 872 Anjou, A. 1899 p. 72.
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