History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

Ghent, and the Peace of Religion. The Fathers kept
the populations in continual agitation and alarm,
they stirred up seditions and tumults, they coerced
the magistrates, and they provoked the Protestants
in many places into acts of imprudence and
violence. On the framing of the Pacification of
Ghent, the Roman Catholic States issued an order
requiring all magistrates and priests to swear to
observe it. The secular priests of Antwerp took the
oath, but the Jesuits refused it, "because they had
sworn to be faithful to the Pope, who favored Don
John of Austria."[2] Of the Franciscan monks in
the city twenty swore the oath, and nineteen
refused to do so, and were thereupon conducted
peaceably out of the town along with the Jesuits.
The Franciscans of Utrecht fled, as did those of
other towns, to avoid the oath.
In some places the Peace of Religion was not
accepted, and in others where it had been formally
accepted, it was not only not kept, it was flagrantly
violated by the Romanists. The basis of that treaty
was the toleration of both worships all over the
Netherlands. It gave to the Protestants in the
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