Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

archbishop should have a seat in the Senate; but
when the day came, and the Eastern prelate entered
the hall to take his place among the senators, the
Roman Catholic bishops rose in a body and left the
Senate-house, saying that they never would sit with
a schismatic. The Archbishop of Kioff had lifted
Casimir's throne out of the dust, and now he had
his services repaid with insult.
The warlike Cossacks held themselves
affronted in the indignity done their spiritual chief;
and hence the second invasion of the kingdom.
This time the insurgents were defeated, but that
only brought greater evils upon the country. The
Cossacks threw themselves into the arms of the
Czar of Muscovy. He espoused their quarrel,
feeling, doubtless, that his honor also was involved
in the disgrace put upon a high dignitary of his
Church, and he descended on Poland with an
immense army. At the same time, Charles
Gustavus of Sweden, taking advantage of the
discontent which prevailed against the Polish
monarch Casimir, entered the kingdom with a
chosen body of troops; and such were his own
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