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Lofthus had an audience with the crown prince twice in June and July 1786, and by his own account he had virtually been given a royal mandate to return home to document the complaints. During the early years of
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Lofthus) and the eventual arrest of Lofthus on 15 March 1787. Enevold Falsen (1755–1808), a noted attorney and father of the future
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