The riot was so furious that it seemed, says a chronicler, as if all the inhabitants had gone raving mad.

The drums beat the alarm, the magistrates went forth to expostulate, but no commands were heeded till the work of destruction had been accomplished, when the tumult expired at last by its own limitation.
Affairs seemed more threatening than ever.

Nothing more excited the indignation of the Prince of Orange than such senseless iconomachy.

In fact, he had at one time procured an enactment by the Ghent authorities, making it a crime punishable with death.

He was of Luther's opinion, that idol-worship was to be eradicated from the heart, and that then the idols in the churches would fall of themselves.