Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

ot upon the bough, they arose, and quitted house
and lands and vineyards. The children and aged
they placed in carts, and setting forward in long
and sorrowful troops, they held on their way across
the Moravian plains to Hungary and Transylvania,
where they found new habitations. They were
happy in being the first to be compelled to go
away; greater severities awaited those whom they
left behind.
Stop the fountains, and the streams will dry up
of themselves. Acting on this maxim, it was
resolved to banish the pastors, to shut up the
churches, and to burn the books of the Protestants.
In pursuance of this program of persecution,
the ministers of Prague had six articles laid before
them, to which their submission was demanded, as
the condition of their remaining in the country. The
first called on them to collect among themselves a
sum of several thousand pounds, and give it as a
loan to the emperor for the payment of the troops
employed in suppressing the rebellion. The
remaining five articles amounted to an
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