WE have now to follow the rise and progress
of the movement in the eastern Austrian
territories of Tyrol and Salzburg. We shall
then briefly trace its fortunes in the western
dependencies of Austria, in the Breisgau and
Upper Elsass, and along the Rhine.

In the first rank of the prince-ecclesiastics of
the extensive hereditary domains of the house
of Austria stood the Archbishop of Salzburg.
Amongst the numerous well-hated prince-
prelates of the age, Archbishop Matthaus Lang
by no means took a back place. The town
of Salzburg had long been at cross purposes
with the arch-episcopal castle overhanging it.
History tells how the predecessor of Lang,
Leonhard by name, had invited the bürger-
meister and some distinguished members of the
city-council to a banquet. As soon as they
sat down to table, he caused the castle ban-
queting-hall to fill with armed men, to whom

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