This tearing in pieces of the Imperial patent granting liberty of Protestant worship, this summary execution done upon senseless bricks and mortar, was an act of defiance to the Reformed religion everywhere.

Protestantism was struck in the face, spat upon, defied.
The effect was instantaneous.

Thurn and the other defenders of the Protestant faith were as prompt in action as the Catholics had been in words.

A few months passed away.

The Emperor was in Vienna, but his ten stadholders were in Prague.