Footnote

a Says one historian: “Twenty-seven of the chief Protestant nobles were beheaded at Prague in one day; thousands of families were stripped of all their property and banished; the Protestant churches were given to the Catholics, the Jesuits took possession of the university and the schools . . . The Protestant faith was practically obliterated from all the Austrian realm . . . The property which was seized by Ferdinand II in Bohemia alone was estimated at forty millions of florins!”​—History of Nations, Germany—​Taylor and Fay, pp. 270, 271.