An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

Then they of the City came rū ning unto that place, and with great pain kept they the residue of the army out which would have entered, and shutting the gate, they fell upon them that were come in with a great rage, and killed many of them. And when the conflict between them had endured two hours, very sharp and furious, the soldiers that were enclosed, did bur•t open the next gate which was not kept with any great strength▪ and so made they an entries in for their fellows, which straight way entered in by a great company. The citizens resisted them a little at the first brunt, but they gathered them selves together in the market place: & being in despair of any victory (many of them being slain at the first bursting in) they desired and entreated for mercy, which was granted unto them. The king and knipperdolin were taken the same time: Roteman despairing of his life, ran among the heap of the enemies, & was so thrust through, rather than he would fall a live into their hands. When the City was taken, the Bishop took to him self half the spoil & the ordinance: afterward he discharged the armies, reserving only to him self two ensigns for defence Then was there an other convention of the Empire at Worms y• fifteenth of Julie, wherein king Ferdinandus by his ambassador proposed & demanded, whether any thing else were to be done concerning y• rooting out of y• Anabaptists, seeing the town was already taken: he also advertised ⟨p. 444⟩them that the Princes ought to ask counsel of the Bishop of Rome: whereunto they answered that it was already provided by certain edicts, what was best to be done to the Anabaptists, and that the Emperor had asked coū sell of the Bishop oftener then once, nether could he do any more in the matter. In the same convention the Bishop of Monstere desired his charges & losses to be recompensed, complaining that the money promised was not paid. but when no thing else could be determined, few of the nobles being present, an other convention was called in the same place, the first of November, wherein the things concerning the war and the charges thereof might be known, wherein also it might be decreed what form of common wealth were after to be established at Monstere.