Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania - James Aitken Wylie

convenient pretext for this treachery. "You are
unable," said Leopold's ministers, "to repel the
Mussulman, who is always hovering on your
border and breaking into your country; we shall
assist you." It mattered little, however, to keep out
the Turk while the Jesuit was allowed to enter; the
troops were no sooner introduced than they began
to pillage :and oppress those they had come to profeet,
and the Hungarians soon discovered that what
the Court of Vienna sought was not to defend them
from the fanatical Moslem, but to subjugate them
to the equally fanatical Jesuit.
When a great crime is to be done it is often
seen that a fitting tool for its execution turns up at
the fight moment. So was it now. The Jesuits
found, not one, but two men every way qualified
for the atrocious business on which they were
embarking. The first was Prince Lobkowitz, owner
of an immense fortune, which his father had
amassed in the Thirty Years' War. He was a proud,
tyrannical, pitiless man, and being entirely devoted
to the Jesuits, he was to Hungary what Lichtenstein
had been to Bohemia. At the same time that this
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