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The Rise of the Dutch Republic
Volume I.(of III) 1555-66

CHAPTER VII
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Perhaps the largest assemblage was that which ravaged the province of Tournay, but this was so weak as to be entirely routed by a small and determined force.

The duty of repression devolved upon both Catholics and Protestants.

Neither party stirred.

All seemed overcome with special wonder as the tempest swept over the land.
The ministers of the Reformed religion, and the chiefs of the liberal party, all denounced the image-breaking.

Francis Junius bitterly regretted such excesses.


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