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Title: The great events by famous historians : a comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians ...
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931 Horne, Charles Francis, 1870- ed Rudd, John, LL. D
Subjects: History, Universay World history
Publisher: (New York) : National alumni
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ry had been limited to the life of one old man. It had now,by the admission of the Diet itself, fixed itself forever upon Bo-hemia. The proceedings against the Protestants on the royaldomains assumed a sharper character. The Braunau worship-pers were rigorously excluded from their church. The walls ofthe new church at Klostergrab were actually levelled with theground. The Bohemians had thus to resist in 1618, under every dis-advantage, the attack which they had done nothing to meet in1617. Certain persons named defensors had, by law, the rightof summoning an assembly of representatives of the ProtestantEstates. Such an assembly met on March 5th, and, having pre-pared a petition to Matthias, who was absent from the kingdom,adjourned to May 21st. Long before the time of meeting came, an answer was sentfrom Matthias justifying all that had been done, and declaringthe assembly illegal. It was believed at the time, though incor-rectly, that the answer was prepared by Slavata and Martinitz,
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THIRTY YEARS WAR BEGINS 65 two members of the regency who had been notorious for thevigor of their opposition to Protestantism. In the Protestant assembly there was a knot of men, headedby Count Henry of Thurn, which was bent on the dethronementof Ferdinand. They resolved to take advantage of the popularfeeling to effect the murder of the two Regents, and so to place animpassable gulf between the nation and the King. Accordingly, on the morning of May 23d, the beginningand cause, as a contemporary calls it, of all the coming evil,the first day, though men as yet knew it not, of thirty years ofwar, Thurn sallied forth at the head of a band of noblemen andtheir followers, all of them with arms in their hands. Troopinginto the room where the Regents were seated, they charged theobnoxious two with being the authors of the Kings reply. Aftera bitter altercation both Martinitz and Slavata were dragged toa window which overlooked the fosse below from a dizzy heightof some seventy feet. Marti

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