uring Swedish rule the royal manor of Padise continued operating and the Ramms received a well-managed estate. There is copious archival material about the Padise manor from this period, much more than from any earlier or later period. There are eight thick folders with the account documents submitted by Padise bailiffs in1562–1619, in total more than 3300 folio pages both in Swedish and German, in the National Archives of Sweden, in Stockholm.
Among the preserved account books there are eight volumes with covers made from medieval liturgical parchments. The tradition of binding the accounts sent to the Chamber (the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency, the Kammarcollegiet) goes back to the times of Gustav Vasa. The Catholic books that proved to be “unusable“ after the Reformation were collected and used as binding material for many decades. Approximately 22 500 fragments of more than 6000 manuscripts survive in the National Archives of Sweden, some of them come from the Baltic provinces. The creation of a database of these materials is in the final stages, but the provenance of the books remains unsolved in most of the cases. There have been cases when the reports were bound in the local material. It cannot be excluded that some of them were the accounts sent by the Padise bailiffs and that there might be parchments from Padise among the surviving fragments in Sweden.