Here is a small theological thing at Landshut, from first hand:-- JUNE 8th, 1745.

"The Army followed Dumoulin's Corps, and marched upon Landshut.

On arriving in that neighborhood, the King was surrounded by a troop of 2,000 Peasants,"-- of Protestant persuasion very evidently! (which is much the prevailing thereabouts),--"who begged permission of him 'to massacre the Catholics of these parts, and clear the country of them altogether.' This animosity arose from the persecutions which the Protestants had suffered during the Austrian domination, when their churches used to be taken from them and given to the Popish priests,"-- churches and almost their children, such was the anxiety to make them orthodox.

The patience of these peasants had run over; and now, in the hour of hope, they proposed the above sweeping measure.

"The King was very far from granting them so barbarous a permission.