Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

Prague is built. They marched right into the
council-chamber, and seizing on Slarata, Martinitz,
and Secretary Fabricius, whom they believed to be
the chief authors of their troubles, they threw them
headlong out of the window. Falling on a heap of
soft earth, sprinkled over with torn papers, the
councilors sustained no harm. "They have been
saved by miracle," said their friends. "No," replied
the Protestants, "they have been spared to be a
scourge to Bohemia." Tiffs deed was followed by
one less violent, but more wise - the expulsion of
the Jesuits, who were forbidden under pain of death
to return.[6]
The issue was war; but the death of Matthias,
which happened at this moment, delayed for a little
while its outbreak. The Bohemian States met to
deliberate whether they should continue to own
Ferdinand after his flagrant violation of the
Majestats-Brief. They voted him no longer their
sovereign. The imperial electors were then sitting
at Frankfort-on-the-Maine to choose a new
emperor. The Bohemians sent an ambassador
thither to say that they had deposed Ferdinand, and
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