This was false, but the Landgrave armed and attacked the Bishops of Wuerzburg and Bamberg, named by Pack as parties to the treaty, and he forced them to pay an indemnity.
{115} [Sidenote: Recess of Spires] The Diet which met at Spires early in 1529 endeavored to deal as drastically as possible with the schism.

The Recess passed by the Catholic majority on April 7 was most unfavorable to the Reformers, repealing the Recess of the last Diet in their favor.

Catholic states were commanded to execute the persecuting Edict of Worms, although Lutheran states were forbidden to abolish the office of the (Catholic) mass, and also to allow any further innovations in their own doctrines or practices until the calling of a general council.

The princes were forbidden to harbor the subjects of another state.

The Evangelical members of the Diet, much aggrieved at this blow to their faith, published a Protest [Sidenote: Protest, April 19] taking the ground that the Recess of 1526 had been in the nature of a treaty and could not be abrogated without the consent of both parties to it.