Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

emperor's sword to conquer, and has delivered us
into your hands, His will be done." Budowa and
Otto Losz, two of his co-patriots, expressed
themselves to the same effect, adding, "Defeat has
made our cause none the worse, and victory has
made yours none the better."[10]
On Saturday, the 19th of June, the judges
assembled in the Palace of Hardschin, and the
prisoners, brought before them one by one, heard
each his sentence. The majority were doomed to
die, some were consigned to perpetual
imprisonment, and others were sent into exile.
Ferdinand, that he might have an opportunity of
appearing more clement and gracious than his
judges, ordered the sentences to be sent to Vienna,
where some of them were mitigated in their details
by the royal pen. We take an instance: Joachim
Andreas Schlik, whose courageous reply to his
examiners we have already quoted, was to have
had his hand cut off, then to have been beheaded
and quartered, and his limbs exposed on a stake at
a cross-road; but this sentence was changed by
Ferdinand to beheading, and the affixing of his
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