Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow




THE LIFE AND DEATH of JOHN OF BARNEVELD, ADVOCATE OF HOLLAND

WITH A VIEW OF THE PRIMARY CAUSES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., LL.D.

Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v8, 1617




CHAPTER XIII.

Ferdinand of Gratz crowned King of Bohemia--His Enmity to
Protestants--Slawata and Martinitz thrown from the Windows of the
Hradschin--Real Beginning of the Thirty Years' War--The Elector-
Palatine's Intrigues in Opposition to the House of Austria--He
supports the Duke of Savoy--The Emperor Matthias visits Dresden--
Jubilee for the Hundredth Anniversary of the Reformation.

When the forlorn emperor Rudolph had signed the permission for his
brother Matthias to take the last crown but one from his head, he bit the
pen in a paroxysm of helpless rage. Then rushing to the window of his
apartment, he looked down on one of the most stately prospects that the