The Catholic party reaped the advantage everywhere, evangelical preachers, even, where not insurrectionists, being persecuted.

Little distinction, in fact, was made in most districts between an opponent of the Catholic Church from Luther's standpoint and one from Karlstadt's or Hubmayer's.

Amongst seventy-one heretics arraigned before the Austrian court at Ensisheim, only one was acquitted.

The others were broken on the wheel, burnt, or drowned.
There were some who were arrested ten or fifteen years later on charges connected with the 1525 revolt.

Treachery, of course, played a large part, as it has done in all defeated movements, in ensuring the fate of many of those who had been at all prominent.