Waestbo

Västbo was a hundred in western Småland and part of the old district of Finnveden. Its court met at Ölmestad in Reftele parish, serving a broad countryside of woods and lakes. In 1616 peasants rose against the bailiff Lars Andersson, whose conduct in collecting the crown's dues had provoked anger. The district's rural customs were later described by the eighteenth-century clergyman Petrus Gaslander in his account of the manners and character of the Swedish peasantry.