Ambrose Wille, pure of all participation in the crime, stood up before ten thousand Reformers at Tournay--even while the storm was raging in the neighboring cities, and, when many voices around him were hoarsely commanding similar depravities to rebuke the outrages by which a sacred cause was disgraced.

The Prince of Orange, in his private letters, deplored the riots, and stigmatized the perpetrators.
Even Brederode, while, as Suzerain of his city of Viane, he ordered the images there to be quietly taken from the churches, characterized this popular insurrection as insensate and flagitious.

Many of the leading confederates not only were offended with the proceedings, but, in their eagerness to chastise the iconoclasts and to escape from a league of which they were weary, began to take severe measures against the Ministers and Reformers, of whom they had constituted themselves in April the especial protectors.
The next remarkable characteristic of these tumults was the almost entire abstinence of the rioters from personal outrage and from pillage.

The testimony of a very bitter, but honest Catholic at Valenciennes, is remarkable upon this point.

"Certain chroniclers," said he, "have greatly mistaken the character of this image-breaking.