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The Bohemian crown was now electoral and it was necessary to persuade the electors to choose Ferdinand, one of the most intolerant Catholics who ever swayed a scepter.Applying to Spain for aid, the Spanish court global trade portal sent him eight thousand troops from the Netherlands he also raised, in his own dominions, ten thousand men.The city grew rapidly and became one of the most important fortresses upon the river.The town was strongly fortified, and here the Protestants, with arms in their global trade portal hands, maintained perfect freedom of religious worship.But it required ages of suffering and peculiar combination of circumstances, to lead the king and the nobles to a cordial consent to that toleration.Count Thurn encouraged them to persevere, promising global trade portal them ample support.Count Thurn immediately summoned a convention of six delegates from each of the districts, called circles in Bohemia.It is better not to reign global trade portal than to be the slave of subjects.The die is thrown.Marshaling his troops, he had driven global trade portal all the Protestant preachers from his domains.Maximilian, the younger brother of Matthias, cordially espoused the cause of Ferdinand.Matthias was professedly their friend, had been placed in power mainly as their sovereign, and was now invested with such power, global trade portal as sovereign of the collected realms of Austria, that he could effectually protect them from persecution.After an angry debate the diet broke up in confusion, having accomplished nothing.I do not, he exclaimed, propose myself as your chief, but as your companion, in that global trade portal peril which will lead us to happy freedom or to glorious death.Four princes were selected as the referees the Electors of Mentz, Bavaria, Saxony and Palatine.