insignia of independence – martin sunnqvist 365 in Uppsala, on the first Sunday of Lent in Strängnäs and on the day of Birth of the Virgin Mary in Västerås.1075 These were days around which markets traditionally were held in these towns. Another difference is that the judges of the High Council varied from time to time to a great extent,1076 while the judges of the Svea Court of Appeal were appointed more permanently; this was, at least, the original intention.1077 In the meantime, after the dissolution of the High Council and before the establishment of the Svea Court of Appeal, cases should be heard by the King’s court at least at Candlemas in Uppsala and on the day of Peter and Paul in Linköping. Efforts were made to organize a court at the King’s court as well, without lasting results until 1614.1078 The High Council came in disrepute and was active less than a decade. Once the court became an instrument of ErikXIV’s political persecutions, the king had a personal interest in the way cases were decided. But its first important task, settling the land claims of the nobility against the crown, also had aconnection to the politics of the king, since he wanted to restore land to the nobility in order to obtain allies.1079 Thus, whether the Svea Court of Appeal wanted to attach to its precursor or wanted to distance itself from it is debatable. In discussing the origins of the Svea Court of Appeal, reference has been made to the French parlements, especially the Parlement de Paris.1080 Since the High Council used the phraseSub Sigillo Parlamenti, it can be concluded that this reference had already been made in the 1560s. Thus, the High Council already understood itself as a parlement, and J. E. Almquist has regarded it as likely that the High Council was used as amodel for the new court in this respect, since both the words council (nämnd) andparlement were used for both courts.1081 In other respects, influence came from other sources, such as the wordhovrätt (cf. Hofgericht).1082 It has been debated whether the Svea Court of Appeal was supposed to be the King’s court in the sense that it should give the final judgement in 1075 Rosén, Jerker 1955 p. 26, quoting an instruction from 1563. 1076 Rosén, Jerker 1955 pp. 28-34. 1077 Edén, Nils 1902 pp. 103, 106, 245, and 257-263. 1078 Edén, Nils 1902 pp. 74-80. 1079 Rosén, Jerker 1955 pp. 22-25 and 33-34. 1080 See Haralds, Hj. 1914. 1081 Almquist, Jan Eric 1940 pp. 472-473. 1082 Almquist, Jan Eric 1940 pp. 475-476.
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