The Reformation And Anti Reformation in Bohemia volume 2
The Reformation And Anti Reformation in Bohemia volume 2
Christian Adolph Pescheck
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The former were of the nobility, and the latter of the citizens. But what kind of people ? Of course only such as could be had when native Romanists had become a rarity. Banished Italians, or Germans, or apostate Bohemians, gluttons who had squandered their fortunes, notorious murderers, bastards, cheats, fiddlers, stage-players, mutineers, even men who 174 THE ANTI-REFORMATION were unable to read, without property, without home, without conscience, — all which can be proved by the most strikin...g examples. It was enough that they were ready to venture every thing, and had promised the Emperor to act, though faithlessly, according to his wishes. Their names would pol- lute our pages. To such people then were every thing in the towns consigned, and on their caprice were the town-councils to depend. No public complaint of disorder and confusion was of any avail. At last it was perceived that they could not continue thus, and the governors being removed in 1624, the judges alone, assisted by the military, were entrusted with the business of guarding and furthering the progress of the imperial plans.
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