Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania - James Aitken Wylie

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July of the same year. To recount their sufferings by the way would be to rehearse the same unspeakably doleful tale we have already told. The sun, the air, the mountains, what were they to men who only longed for death? Their eyes grew dark, their teeth fell out, and though still alive, their bodies were decaying. On the road, ten of these miserable men, succumbing to their load of woe, and not well knowing what they did, yielded to the entreaties of their guard, and professed to embrace the faith of Rome. Three died on the way, and their fellow-sufferers being permitted to scoop out a grave, they were laid in it, and the 88th Psalm was sung over their lonely resting-place. Meanwhile, the story of their sufferings was spreading over Europe. Princes and statesmen, touched by their melancholy fate, had begun to take an interest in them, and were exerting themselves to obtain their release.[8] Representations were made in their behalf to the Imperial Court at Vienna, and also to the Government of Naples. These appeals were met with explanations, excuses, and delays. The 100
Hungarian pastern still continued fix their chains. The hopes of their deliverance were becoming faint when, on the 12th of December, the Dutch fleet sailed into the Bay of Naples. The vice-admiral, John de Staen, stepped on shore, and waiting on the crown-regent with the proof of the innocence of the prisoners in his hand, he begged their release. He was told that they would be set at liberty in three days. Overjoyed, the vice-admiral sent to the galleys to announce to the captives their approaching discharge, and then set sail for Sicily, whither he was called by the war with France. The Dutch fleet being gone, the promise of the crownregent was forgotten. The third day came and went, and the prisoners were still sighing in their fetters; but there was One who heard their groans, and had numbered and finished the days of their captivity. Again the Dutch ships were seen in the offing. Ploughing the bay, and sweeping past Capri, the fleet held on its course till it cast anchor before the city, and lay with its guns looking at the castle and palace of St. Elmo. It was Admiral de Ruyter himself. He had been commanded by the States- 101
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ooty from their plundering excursio
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her at the Diet at Augsburg, and se
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A commission was next appointed to
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slaughtering him and his grandees l
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of carnage, the king and the Papal
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laboring in the surrounding distric
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in manuscript. He went to Wittember
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It lasted several days, and when it
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we also do without it? The Greeks t
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Ferdinand I. nevertheless, on the g
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Chapter 2 Protestantism Flourishes
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through the country that the priest
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prince under the protection of Soli
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salvation that one should either be
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the same Church, though differing i
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coined the gold and silver vessels
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Scarcely less gratifying was the pr
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altar; the priest departs, for ther
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Chapter 3 Ferdinand II and the Era
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Protestants, and partly to the quie
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wider division.[1] The war raged mo
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Bishop of Raab imported a single br
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would sooner lose his life than bre
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