on the 11th November 1580, a new grant of the estate was made to Tycho in exactly the same terms as the previous one, and two months afterwards the lieutenant at Bergen was directed to hand over the estate to Tycho Brahe, and to refund all money received from it during the time he had been deprived of it.[1] The king evidently now thought that he had done enough for Tycho, for on the 29th March 1581 he wrote to him that although Tycho had applied to have the pension of 500 daler continued, still, as he had been provided for in other ways, the pension was to be paid for the past year, but was then to cease. The same day the chief of the exchequer, Valkendorf, received instructions to this effect; but already six months after he was directed again to pay the pension to Tycho, who seems to have received it without interruption till 1597.[2]
Tycho continued in undisturbed possession of the Norwegian estate till March 1586, when he and several other tenants of Crown estates in Norway received notice to surrender them, as "fish and other victuals" which they produced were wanted for the navy. It was, however, stated that they were not to consider this as a sign of disgrace, but that they would be indemnified in other ways. Thus Tycho got in the first instance 300 daler from the treasury,[3] and on the 11th September following he was informed that he would, until further notice, receive an annual sum of 400 daler from the customs paid at Elsinore. This grant was renewed on the 4th June 1587, the money to be paid annually on the 1st May.[4] The estate
- ↑ Both letters to the lieutenant are printed in Danske Magazin, ii. pp. 211-212 (Weistritz, ii. p. 106).
- ↑ Letter to Tycho Brahe of March 29th, printed in Friis, Tyge Brahe, p. 114; letter to Valkendorf of same date, in Danske Magazin, ii. p. 217 (Weistritz, ii. p. 117).
- ↑ Friis, Tyge Brahe, p. 161.
- ↑ Letters of 11th September 1586 and 4th June 1587, printed in Danske Magazin, ii. pp. 244-245 (Weistritz, ii. p. 165-166), where is also a letter from
