History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

emoved all their images. Thus, without the
effusion of a drop of blood, was Protestantism
established in Amsterdam. The first Reformed
pastors in that capital were John Reuchelin and
Peter Hardenberg.[9] The Lutherans and
Anabaptists were permitted to meet openly for their
worship, and the Papists were allowed the private
exercise of theirs.
With this prosperous gale Protestantism made
way in the other cities of Holland and of Brabant.
This progress, profoundly peaceful in the majority
of cases, was attended with tumult in one or two
instances. In Haarlem the Protestants rose on a
Communion Sunday, and coming upon the priests
in the cathedral while in the act of kindling their
tapers and unfurling their banners for a grand
procession, they dispossessed them of their church.
In the tumult a priest was slain, but the soldier who
did the deed had to atone for it with his life; the
other rioters were summoned by tuck of drum to
restore the articles they had stolen, and the Papists
were assured, by a public declaration, of the free
exercise of their religion.[10] The presence of the
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