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cians who could play the "pipe and drum" when the city needed him, and to assist in the organ in S:t Petri Church on Sundays and holidays, for an annual salary of 50 daler and free housing. The food and drink at Gertrud Hollenders' tavern would have been plentiful and made young Lord Sten and the other partygoers drunk. From Gertrud Hollenders, Lord Sten, ac- companied by clerk Lauritz and his aforementioned two servants, left after 9pm in the evening.
At the head of the rowdy group walked Johan Speleman and his servants, playing on wind instruments, and following behind were Lord Sten and the others with drawn swords, with which they, under cries and noise, struck the pavement stones so that they resonated. The noisy group mar- ched in a closed formation down the middle of Västergatan, and the cour- se was set eastward to Jacob Fechtell's wine cellar at Adelgatan. The group's march could be heard from far away, and it was shortly after the time in the evening when the city gates had been closed and the city watchmaster Bonde Weyer, the city's law enforcement officer and night watch supervi- sor since 1592, had just distributed the patrol routes for the night to the watchmen at the gathering place outside the town hall steps. However, the watchmen had not yet had a chance to distribute themselves before the distant noise from the alarming Swedes reached them. Through one of the watchmen Söfren Clemmidsen, Bonde Weyer received knowledge of the cause of the disturbance.
The first time "Her Erick Gustaffson Friiherre aff Swerrig" is mentioned as being in Malmo was on Friday, March 6th, 1601, when he appeared before the mayor and council at the town hall as a defendant in a case brought against him by merchant Henrik Insen from Kungälv, through former bai- liff Henrik Daabelsten acting as Insen's representative. The case involved claims for a sum of 9,805 daler 10 skilling, along with 18 years of interest at 10 percent, as well as accusations of violence, self-pawning, and defama- tion, all dating back to the early 1580s when Henrik Insen was a citizen of Nylöse - Nya Lödöse - a town in Västergötland near Älvsborg, destroyed in 1612, now the site of Gamlestaden, a part of Gothenburg. This case, in which Henrik Insen obtained a letter from the Danish king dated Februa- ry 24th, 1601 ordering an investigation and judgement, was subsequently held on March 13th, June 12th, and July 27th of the same year, and on the latter date, Erik Gustavsson was ordered to pay Henrik Insen 3,193 dater according to a "register" signed by Erik Gustavsson himself, dated No- vember 22nd, 1582; however, he was otherwise acquitted. During his stay in Malmo, at least from 1601-1602, Erik Gustavsson Stenbock lived with shipbuilder and shipowner Mogens Jespersen, whose wife Gertrud, usually called Gertrud Hollenders, ran a boarding house,
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