sacraments. And we thought, if we came
before you, Our Lords, you would believe them rather than us; which has
occasioned offence to the whole parish."

By these memorials the government was convinced that in a great part of
the canton, and especially the more wealthy and intelligent portion,
there was still determination enough to support order, and hence it
durst venture to summon deputies from the turbulent districts in
sufficient numbers to a conference before the Great Council. With them
all the preachers of these districts were invited, and the negotiations
took place on 22d of June, 1525; concerning which the protocol
expresses itself substantially in the following manner:

"Whereas, ye deputies from the duchy of Kyburg and the territories of
Eglisau, Greifensee, Grueningen Andelfingen, Buelach, Neuamt and
Ruemlang, together with all the curates and preachers, have sat to-day
before My Lords in behalf of the articles, in which the members of the
several communities have thought themselves to be aggrieved, and
especially in regard to the tithe, and these things have truly come to
light--that heretofore the aforenamed preachers have frequently
preached from the pulpit and elsewhere, and other persons have asserted
in taverns behind their wine, that, according to the divine law and
justice, no one is bound to pay tithes, whereby the common people have
become seditious and strengthened in such a belief--and whereas in
order to reach the bottom of this matter, it has been discussed and
handled in various meetings, and explained at length by Master Ulric
Zwingli, that in the beginning the tithe was laid for a pious purpose,
though afterward perverted and abused, but yet that it was a just debt
and can be fairly complained of by no one--it shall be henceforth the
concern of the government that the whole tithe be restored to its right
channel and applied to the wants of the needy. Because, moreover, the
deputies of the abovenamed communities have made it appear, that these
disorders have sprung from the clergy alone and their inconsistent
preaching, and they have thus been taught and instructed, and hence have
given the whole business into the hands of My Lords; and because they have
framed excuses for themselves from the speeches of these clergy, since
several of them have spoken and preached more for disorder and strife than
brotherly unity, be this answer, after a fair hearing, given to the rebels,
that they at once