The Thirty Years' War - James Aitken Wylie

Augsburg. This was eminently a city of Protestant
memories, for there the Augustan Confession had
been read, and the Religious Peace concluded, and
that doubtless made this city a delicious conquest
to the Jesuits. Augsburg was again placed under the
government of its bishop, and all the Lutheran
churches were shut up. In all the free cities the
Romish worship was restored by the soldiers. As
regards the richer bishoprics, the emperor, having
regard to the maxim that all well-regulated charity
begins at home, got the chapters to elect his sons to
them. His second son, Leopold William, a lad of
fifteen already nominated Bishop of Strasburg,
Passau, Breslau, and Olmutz, obtained as his share
of the spoil gathered under the edict, the Bishopric
of Halberstadt, and the Archiepiscopates of
Magdeburg and Bremen. When the ancient
heritages of the Benedictines, Augustines, and
other orders came to be distributed anew, by whom
should they be claimed but by the Jesuits, an order
which had no existence when these foundations
were first created! To benefice a youth of fifteen,
and endow the new order of Loyola, with this
wealth, Ferdinand called "making restitution to the
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