Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

and orphans. There was, moreover, a body of
laymen, termed Defenders, who were charged with
the financial and secular affairs of the Church.
Still further to strengthen the Protestant Church
of Bohemia, and to secure the peace of the
kingdom, a treaty was concluded between the
Romanists and Protestants, in which these two
parties bound themselves to mutual concord, and
agreed to certain rules which were to regulate their
relations to one another as regarded the possession
of churches, the right of burial in the public
cemeteries, and similar matters. This agreement
was entered upon the registers of the kingdom; it
was sworn to by the Emperor Rudolph and his
councillors; it was laid up among the other solemn
charters of the nation, and a protest taken that if
hereafter any one should attempt to disturb this
arrangement, or abridge the liberty conceded in it,
he should be held to be a disturber of the peace of
the kingdom, and punished accordingly.[2]
Thus did the whole nation unite in closing the
doors of the Temple of Janus, in token that now
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