The compromise suited no one and on February 8 the long prepared revolution broke out.
Under pretence that the Catholics had disobeyed the last decree, a Protestant mob surrounded the town hall, planted cannon, and forced the council to expel the twelve Catholic members, meanwhile destroying church pictures and statues.

"It was indeed a spectacle so sad to the superstitious," Oecolampadius wrote to Capito, "that they had to weep blood.

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