Swedeland

alternative Swedland · alternative Swethland

1. obsoleteSweden.

   The Sea Coaſtes of Swedeland, about the coaſtes of Weſterwijck and the entraũce of Stockholm, Beginning from Kalmar vnto the Wigſtone and the Redde Kewe the wch lye wtin the ſayde entraunce of Stockholme.

   [1588?], The Mariners Mirrour Wherin May Playnly Be Seen the Courses, Heights, Distances, Depths, Soundings, Flouds and Ebs, Risings of Lands, Rocks, Sands and Shoalds, with the Marks for Thentrings of the Harbouroughs, Havens and Ports of the Greatest Part of Europe: Their Seueral Traficks and Commodities: […], [London]: [ […] John Charlewood]

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   Neuertheleſſe theſe ten hoꝛnes may alſo be applyed to the kings whiche haue acknowledged the Biſhop of Romes ſupꝛemacie, as the kings of Naples, Poꝛtingale, Spayne, Fraunce, Englande, Denmarke, Swedeland, Poole, Hungarie, and Beame.

   1574, Augustine Marlorate [i.e., Augustin Marlorat], “[Revelation 17:12]”, in Arthur Golding, transl., A Catholike Exposition vpon the Reuelation of Sainct Iohn. […], London: […] H[enry] Binneman, for L[ucas] Harison, and G[eorge] Bishop, →OCLC, folio 246, verso

   You will there read the firſt ſteps of France, to that height which it arrived at, under the Conduct of the violent and refined Politicks of a Cardinal, who renders his Maſter powerful at home, by humbling the Princes and great Men there, and formidable abroad, by entring him into a ſeaſonable League with the Crown of Swedeland and the United Provinces.

   1700, Michel Le Assor, The History of the Reign of Lewis XIII. King of France and Navarre. Containing the Most Remarkable Occurrences in France and Europe During the Minority of That Prince., London: […] Thomas Cockerill, […]