Monday, October 11, 2021

Whitelocke's diary entry about Kristina going for an evening drive through Uppsala and drunk people messing around at night, March 5/15 (Old Style), 1654

Source:

A journal of the Swedish ambassy, in the years M.DCC.LIII. and M.DCC.LIV., volume 1, page 478, Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1772


The diary entry:

... In the evening the queen past through the streets in her coach, with divers other coaches, and her servants waiting on her, to take the aier, though uppon this day; and in the night, many disorderly drunkards were committing debaucheries and insolencyes in the town, and att Whitelocke's doore.


Above: Kristina.


Above: Bulstrode Whitelocke.

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