Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

On the testimony of all historians, Popish as well
as Protestant, they were riotous livers, insatiably
greedy, and so shamelessly profligate that
abominable crimes, unknown in Bohemia till then,
and not fit to be named, say the chroniclers, began
to pollute the land. Even the Popish historian Pelzel
says, "they led vicious lives." Many of them had to
return to Poland faster than they had come, to
escape the popular vengeance which their misdeeds
had awakened against them. Bohemia was doubly
scourged: it had lost its pious ministers, and it had
received in their room men who were fitter to
occupy the culprit's cell than the teacher's chair.
The cleansing of the churches which had been
occupied by the Protestant ministers, before being
again taken possession of by the Romish clergy,
presents us with many things not only foolish, but
droll. The pulpit was first whipped, next sprinkled
with holy water, then a priest was made to enter it,
and speaking for the pulpit to say, "I have sinned."
The altars at which the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper had been dispensed were dealt with much
in the same way. When the Jesuits took possession
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